Applications for the North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape Cohort will open in January 2025.
Application Timeline
Application
Opens
January 13, 2025
Application
Closes
February 21, 2025
Semi-finalist interviews
March 2025
Final Cohort
Announced
May 2025
6-month Accelerator program
June-November 2025
Peregrine Accelerator 2025 Eligibility Criteria
- The project team must be based and currently working in the geography of the North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape and comprise organization(s) based in the U.S. and/or Canada.
- The project team’s proposed solution must be designed to deliver co-benefits for nature and people, specifically regarding biodiversity, climate resilience, community well-being, and environmental equity and justice.
- The project team’s proposed solution cannot carry on propaganda or otherwise attempt to influence legislation within the meaning of U.S. Code Section 4945(d)(1); the proposed project cannot aim to influence the outcome of any specific public election or to carry on, directly or indirectly, any voter registration drive within the meaning of U.S. Code Section 4945(d)
- If selected, at least one representative of the project team must be willing and able to participate in the 6-month Accelerator program; we anticipate a minimum commitment of 2-3 hours during most weeks of the program.
- The majority of a project team’s members must be paid staff of the organization(s) represented within the team. If selected, at least one of the team’s primary participants in the Accelerator program must be paid staff.
Who Should Apply
- Project teams should comprise at least one small—to mid-sized organization (though we do not prescribe specific cut-offs regarding operating budgets or staff size to define this); project teams are not required but are encouraged to represent multiple organizations and diverse perspectives and sectors.
- Project teams should have demonstrable organizational capacity and some track record of success but still face significant, specific barriers/challenges to successfully implementing their proposed solution.
- A project team’s primary organization is not required to be a legally tax-exempt entity; municipalities, university centers and institutes, and Tribal and First Nations are encouraged to apply.
- Proposed solutions may be “on the ground” work, but they may also be rooted in community engagement, actionable research, policy approaches, or technological or finance tools.
The North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape:
The Salazar Center has chosen to focus on the North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape for the 2025 Accelerator program. This landscape is defined primarily in accordance with the New England-Acadian Forests ecoregion, as outlined by OneEarth. Additional consideration was given to the inclusion of Indigenous territories and to the Salazar Center’s desire to recruit a cohort with a shared ecology and common socio-cultural ground but from a large enough swath to bring together groups from two countries in a context where they might not otherwise interact.
The North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape represents an array of complex challenges, as well as opportunities, to enhance ecological and community health. The Peregrine Accelerator program will help position selected project teams to deliver solutions that benefit people and nature across the landscape.
The Impact:
The proposed solutions must be designed to deliver co-benefits for nature and people, specifically regarding biodiversity, climate resilience, community well-being, and environmental equity and justice.Participants in the 2025 Cohort can expect to implement their ideas sooner and more effectively by developing and refining an implementation plan for the project with clear milestones, metrics, and adaptive management strategy, supported by feedback from expert mentors and advisors. Participants benefit from an increased chance of funding their project through tailored fundraising training, strategy development, and introductions to prospective funders. Exposure to a peer learning community comprising other teams, plus introductions to experts, new potential partners, and others, means that the learning experience doesn’t stop at the end of the six-month program.