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Focused Investment Partnership Pre-Project Application Open Solicitation
Oaks at Coffee Lake Creek. Credit: Metro
The Willamette Valley Oak and Prairie Cooperative (WVOPC) is exploring a Focused Investment Partnership (FIP) opportunity through the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB). FIPs are six-year, large-scale investments (up to $15 million per partnership) that support collaborative partnerships with a Strategic Action Plan.
If awarded, funding is distributed across three biennium (2027–2033). Workplan 1 projects should be largely shovel-ready by July 2027, while Workplans 2 and 3 can include projects still under development.
A FIP pre-project application allows the WVOPC Steering Committee to select projects for inclusion in biennium workplans, a critical step in the OWEB FIP grant proposal process. Its primary goal is to ensure proposed projects are ecologically sound, align with WVOPC’s mission and goals, and advance the Strategic Action Plan. Currently, restoration grants (~60%) are prioritized, though all grant types are welcome.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION AND SELECTION
- Submit the following survey
- Email completed applications* to the WVOPC Coordinator (wvoakprairiecoop@gmail.com) as a single PDF by 5:00pm PST on Friday, May 1st, 2026. Please rename the file with the following naming structure “WVOPC FIP Project Application_Entity_LastName.pdf”
*For projects that have sites please provide spatial data (format: shapefile, kmz/kml) as a zip file
Application selection will be completed by the Steering Committee and announced to applicants by July 2026.
QUESTIONS?
Please direct any questions to the WVOPC Coordinator, Laura Estrada, (wvoakprairiecoop@gmail.com).