Travel Grants

Recognizing that budgets are tight, especially when it comes to travel, we allocate travel funds for many of our wildfire-related events. These travel grants are open for any member of the fire community to apply, including emergency managers, municipalities, state agency employees, community leaders, and more. We can offer up to $480 per person. We currently have more funds to support travel from participants who live in Arizona, thanks to a partnership with the Arizona Wildfire Initiative. Funding for applicable requests may go beyond $480.

Complete a Travel Grant Application

Please Note:

Our travel grants are open for any member of the fire community to apply. However, due to federal funding regulations, we are unable to fund any federal employees outside of the U.S. Forest Service (we have grant funds that sit within the USFS). If you are a federal employee, we occasionally partner with NGOs, who can often provide funding for you.

Additionally, please understand that our travel grants are reimbursement-based and will be delivered after we receive your post-travel receipts (following Arizona State per diem rules, which can be found here). For special circumstances, we can occasionally pay directly for certain costs up front, such as registration. Please contact the coordinator with questions at molly.mccormick@nau.edu

How we award our travel grants:

We typically favor those from the Southwest region (AZ, NM, southern UT and west TX). Please see individual events for application deadlines.

Applicants are selected based on the following criteria:

  • How much support is needed (partial or full)
  • Financial need – would they be able to attend if they did not get the travel grant?
  • Agency/organization – Is someone from an agency/organization not well represented for the event?
  • Participation in the event

Ranking:

  1. Presenters
  2. Partial need and agency not well represented
  3. Full need and agency not well represented
  4. Partial support and unable to attend otherwise
  5. Full support and unable to attend otherwise
  6. Partial support
  7. Full support
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Funded in part by Joint Fire Science Program and the Arizona Wildfire Initiative