The National Forest Foundation is currently soliciting pre-proposals for its 2009 Matching Awards Program (MAP). The grant program provides matching funds on a 1:1 basis to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and Native American tribes to implement action-oriented, on-the-ground and citizen-based monitoring projects that benefit national forests and grasslands.

Proposals for the Matching Awards Program will be selected for funding through a two-stage process. Applicants must first submit a pre-proposal to NFF. The pre-proposals will be evaluated, and then a subset of the pre-proposal group will be invited to submit full proposals.

The submission date for pre-proposals is December 12, 2008. To learn more about NFF's Matching Awards Program, please visit http://www.natlforests.org/consp_04_map.html.