Join the Science for Nature and People Partnership Innovation Hub!
The Innovation Hub is a collaboration between the Doris Duke Foundation and SNAPP, a partnership between The Nature Conservancy, and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Applicants will be notified of their proposal status by June 2025.
Overview
Why? The goal of the SNAPP Innovation Hub is to strengthen the evidence for, and create a roadmap to implement, a shared vision for a nature-positive future in the United States.
The SNAPP approach is based in collaborative science and encourages strategy development that is co-designed by a wide variety of stakeholders, sectors, and administrative levels, including local, state, federal and tribal governments, non-profit organizations, research institutions, and other implementing partners.
Who? Proposed working groups are led by 2-3 Principal Investigators (PIs) from separate organizations and sectors, composed of 12-15 members from a diversity of non-profit, academic, tribal, community, government or mission-driven entities. Novel trans-sectoral collaborations that include local leadership are highly encouraged.
What? Three groups will be selected to work independently with intentional cross-group collaboration to answer questions related to developing and meeting national conservation objectives in the United States, including:
- Efficient planning, protection, and management to increase the ecological integrity of nature,
- Restoring degraded ecosystems,
- Eliminating, reducing, and mitigating the impacts of invasive species,
- Reducing pollution risks and the negative impact of pollution from all sources, and
- Building and maintaining nature’s resilience.
SNAPP will fund one post-doctoral Research Fellow per working group. The three groups will meet twice, concurrently at the same location, with independent agendas. During these convenings, intentional sessions will allow the three groups to come together to synthesize existing knowledge to define select national conservation priorities for the United States and create a roadmap to their implementation.
Research Fellows
Innovation Hub Research Fellows by default will be hosted at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) unless the applicant indicates a different, vetted and viable institution. If hosting the fellow outside of TNC, the Fellow must be hosted by a U.S. based non-profit or degree-granting institution, with the ability to quickly and efficiently contract with TNC and hire the Fellow for 12-16 months. SNAPP funds have a 0% indirect cost rate.
Note: The SNAPP Innovation Hub award is not a grant. Only in the case SNAPP agrees to host the Research Fellow at an eligible institution besides TNC will SNAPP execute a contract and disperse funds to said institution. This is the only external dispersal of funds allowable under this award.
When and Where?
Applications accepted February 14 – March 14, 2025 (11:59pm Hawai'i Time). Only proposals recieved by the deadline through SNAPP's online awards portal will be reviewed.
Award Notification: By June 2025
Working Group Duration: July 2025 – December 2026
SNAPP Research Fellows Recruitment and Onboarding: July 2025 - August 2025
SNAPP Research Fellows-Only Training and Networking Event (Required for Fellows)
- September 15-19, 2025, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Training attendees will also include SNAPP Research Fellows from other active SNAPP working groups, in addition to Innovation Hub Fellows
- 20 – 24 October 2025, Duke Farms, Hillsborough, New Jersey
- Fall 2026 (exact dates and location to be determined by mutual availability)
Indirect Costs
Since its inception, SNAPP has maintained a published Indirect Cost Policy that funds awarded by the program are subject to a 0% indirect cost rate. This guidance is a contingency of SNAPP funding and applies to both the primary recipient and any sub-awardees. SNAPP funds may be applied to fringe benefits for Research Fellows and other direct costs associated with conducting the work.
Use of Information in SNAPP Proposals
The SNAPP Innovation Hub is a partnership between The Doris Duke Foundation, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). All information submitted through the SNAPP proposal portal may be viewed by staff at the partner organizations supporting the SNAPP RFP, Board of Directors, Science Advisory Council, and affiliates for the express purpose of consideration for SNAPP funding. The information submitted is kept confidential and will not be shared outside this group. As an exception, SNAPP may occasionally share a proposal confidentially with an interested co-funder. Applicants may opt out of having their application shared with other funders by so indicating at the end of the “Consent” tab in the application. Contact information is not shared outside the SNAPP review and administration process.
SNAPP Records, including proposals and other records mentioned above, are stored on TNC systems. More information about TNC’s privacy practices can be found here.
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