END DATE: December 15, 2023 | The Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP)
The Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) is seeking funding for expert teams to address the most pressing problems affecting people and the environment quickly.
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Overview and standards
A tool for creating long-term responses to global conservation concerns is SNAPP, a first-of-its-kind scientific collaboration between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Since its inception, SNAPP has offered science-based and user-friendly tools backed by hard data to identify and quantify nature’s role and value in preventing and resolving some of the most difficult problems the world faces, including food and water security, climate change, and energy.
SNAPP offers up to US $1 million annually to 4-6 authorized working groups headed by academic, governmental, multinational, or nonprofit organizations. SNAPP provides funding for groups of 12–15 individuals from various organizations to come together for 3–4 sessions of collaboration over the course of 12–24 months. Members collaborate remotely between meetings, work with partners on long-term implementation projects, explore for new chances for real, long-lasting change, create and test tools and solutions, and publish research. For more information, please go to the “What We Fund” tab.
The following factors are used to evaluate SNAPP proposals:
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Relevance to Mission: The proposal will clearly address a question or questions that touch on sustainable economic development, human well-being, and environmental preservation. - Urgency: It is obvious why the question(s) at hand are of utmost importance at the moment and how the research would benefit both the existing body of knowledge and ongoing work in the field.
- Interdisciplinary Science: The suggested approaches take into account both biophysical and socioeconomic sciences, and the applicant expects employing adequate and extensive datasets or information sources for this study.
- Short-term Results: The proposal outlines SMART objectives (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) that describe the project’s anticipated results over the course of the funding period.
- Long-term Results: A well-defined plan has been developed for continuing to implement the work after the SNAPP working group concludes. Based on the project’s outputs and outcomes, implementation partners (such as TNC, WCS, and/or other conservation and sustainable development/humanitarian organizations) have made it apparent that they are dedicated to working toward longer-term results.
- Diversity: The group’s confirmed members include a range of industries and academic specialties. There is no dominant organization or two in this collaborative effort. The Global South and other groups that are less prevalent in academic literature are included in the group’s diverse demographics and experiences.
- Efficiency: The proposal makes a convincing case for the economical utilization of SNAPP funding.
- Specifies how this study may expand on the work of earlier SNAPP working group(s) or fills a void that has not yet been investigated by a SNAPP working group.
Funding Options We Can’t Offer
All submissions are accepted at SNAPP! To assist you in determining whether your project is a good fit for SNAPP financing, below is a list of things we can and cannot finance.
We contribute to:
- Working groups (explained on the Welcome page; note that these differ greatly from the IUCN “working groups” for species survival)
- Postdoctoral researchers’ salaries, benefits, and other direct charges for research assistants
- Independent contractors or the actual time spent by staff members conducting research, creating graphics, building websites, and other comparable tasks for the working group
- Meeting expenses include both online and in-person events, including those for neutral third parties, planners, hotels, catering, meeting locations, and technology.
What we are unable to fund includes
- Principal Investigators’ compensation (including postdocs who are identified as PIs)
- Primary data collection or fieldwork should not account for more than 5–10% of the entire budget unless it is obviously necessary to close a significant gap in an existing dataset.
- instruments, cars, and structural infrastructure
- Research on lobbying without a clear connection to implementation, and vice versa
- Indirect or overhead expenses
- SNAPP acknowledges that some of the costs associated with your research and implementation efforts may legitimately and absolutely be necessary. We offer this resource to assist you in determining whether SNAPP is the best fit for you.
How to Apply:
Using this portal, you may verify that your proposal has been received and follow its development. If you have any additional queries, please snapp@snappartnership.net. You can also send a quick (less than one page) concept note outlining your proposal idea to this email in order to get a preliminary assessment of whether it would be “SNAPPable.” There are instructions here. Please give us two weeks to respond in a meaningful way. Submissions that are incomplete or late won’t be examined.
Project managers should prepare to start their proposed work on July 1, 2024, if their projects are approved. Before beginning your application, please study the information about active and completed SNAPP teams.
Questions? SNAPP can be reached at snapp@snappartnership.net.
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