Climate Program Office (CPO) NIHHIS FY2024 | NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2007735

Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2007735

The Climate Program Office (CPO) NIHHIS FY2024 opportunity is a NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) funding announcement focused on helping the country better understand and respond to climate-driven risks, with a specific emphasis on extreme heat. NOAA frames the program around the real-world economic, public health, safety, and security impacts that come with climate variability and long-term climate change. Through CPO, NOAA funds competitive research and applied work that improves climate knowledge and, just as importantly, turns that knowledge into tools, services, and practices that people can actually use to make decisions and strengthen resilience.

This opportunity is issued as a discretionary cooperative agreement, which generally signals that NOAA expects to be substantially involved with awardees during the project period (for example through coordination, shared planning, data or product alignment, stakeholder engagement, or other forms of ongoing collaboration). The work supported under this announcement spans multiple activity types, including climate science and observations, assessments, decision-support research, outreach and education, and capacity-building. While the program sits within NOAA's broader climate portfolio, it is explicitly tied to CPO's Climate Risk Areas Initiative, where NOAA is prioritizing targeted risk areas and pushing for outcomes that are driven by user needs rather than research outputs alone. In this particular announcement, the risk area highlighted is extreme heat, meaning proposals are expected to connect their work to improving understanding, prediction, communication, preparedness, and/or response capabilities related to heat impacts.

The announcement also aligns with NOAA's FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, especially two agency-wide goals: building a Climate Ready Nation and making equity central to NOAA's mission. In practice, this means NOAA is looking for projects that do more than advance technical understanding; they should help communities, agencies, and decision-makers reduce harm from heat, improve readiness, and ensure that benefits reach populations that are often most exposed and least resourced. A core feature of this funding opportunity is that applicants will be evaluated in part on how well they incorporate diversity and inclusion principles into both proposal design and project execution. NOAA defines diversity as the mix of individual attributes that help organizations meet objectives, and inclusion as building a culture that connects individuals to the organization; the intent is to broaden participation, strengthen the climate research community, and improve the relevance and legitimacy of the resulting work.

From the opportunity details provided, the funding opportunity title is "Climate Program Office (CPO) NIHHIS FY2024" with opportunity number NOAA OAR CPO 2024 2007735 and CFDA number 11.431. The award instrument is a cooperative agreement, and the activity categories include business and commerce, education, environment, natural resources, and science and technology/research and development, reflecting the program's blend of scientific research and practical application. The opportunity was posted on July 11, 2023, with an original closing date of October 16, 2023. NOAA listed an award ceiling of $9,000,000 and an expectation of two awards, indicating that this is a relatively high-dollar, competitive program likely intended to support substantial, multi-partner efforts or large-scale deliverables rather than many small grants. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional clarification expected in the full eligibility section of the official notice, which typically means applicants should consult the complete announcement language to confirm which organization types can apply (for example universities, nonprofits, state/local/tribal governments, private entities, or consortia, depending on the program rules).

Overall, the central idea of the CPO NIHHIS FY2024 competition is to fund work that improves the nation's ability to understand and manage extreme heat risk, while ensuring that the resulting science and decision-support capabilities are shaped by user needs, connected to real operational or community outcomes, and designed with equity, diversity, and inclusion as explicit project requirements rather than optional add-ons.

• The Department of Commerce in the business and commerce, education, environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Climate Program Office (CPO) NIHHIS FY2024" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.431.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 11, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 16, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $9,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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