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MDNR Chesapeake & Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

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Last updated 25 days ago

Program Contacts

If you have programmatic or custom model questions, please reach out to Ari Engelberg

Programs and RFPs

Lead Funding Organization

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Geographic Area

State of Maryland

Putting FieldDoc to use

New Application Submission Workflow

FieldDoc has recently released a suite of new features and changes to our reporting workflow. You will need to take some additional steps to make sure your application is received by the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund Program Managers.

Apply for funding

To create the FieldDoc portion of your application, first ensure that you have set up an account on FieldDoc. The following identifies the key components. Check out the FieldDoc Documentation for more detailed instructions for each step.

1

Create FieldDoc Account

The organization submitting the application must be the "owner" of the related records and Pact within FieldDoc. Collaborators and technical service providers can be added to the organization's workspace to assist with configuring the Pact.

2

Create a Pact

FieldDoc allows organizations to share data from their portfolio of nature-based activities with funding programs via Pacts. Each application should have a unique Pact. To create a Pact, you'll need the funding opportunity's unique Pact Code.

3

Link Activity Records to the Pact

Activity Records represent the work that will be completed through the proposed funding. Review the FAQs for specific guidance on what must be included at the application level.

4

Add Programmatic Metrics

Once Activity Records are linked to a Pact, you can add programmatic metrics associated with the Funding Opportunity. These metrics should match those submitted in your Easygrants application.

5

Hit submit.

For Program Managers to review your FieldDoc data, you must submit the Pact by clicking "Submit."

Follow any additional guidance provided in the RFP to complete your application.

FAQs - Creating an proposal

Why aren't my Activities appearing in my Pact?

All Activities must be linked to a Pact. If you create an Activity through a Pact, the Activity will be a part of that Pact. If you create an Activity through your Activity Portfolio page or directly through a Project, you will need to manually link the Activity to a Pact.

Why can't my funder see my application?
  1. Did you click "Submit to Funder"?

Where did Sites go?

This year, we recommend using Projects instead of Sites to organize and store your Activities within your organization portfolio. To maintain clarity, we recommend that you include the Site Name as part of the Activity Name. For example, within a Project named Smith Farm, you might name your activities as follows: Smith Farm Forest Buffer, Smith Farm Grass Buffer, and Smith Farm Cover Crop.

When it's time to create your Pact, you will link Activities directly from your portfolio. Projects will not restrict you from including multiple activities from different projects in the same Pact. You will share the Pact URL as part of your application rather than Projects.

How do I associate my activities to the Pact?

In the updated FieldDoc system, activities are the base data record. The system has expanded options for organizing and sharing activity records. This has resulted in multiple pathways through which you can create activity records and share them as part of funding applications.

There are two main pathways to create a Pact and add Activities. The order of operations no longer matters, but for a Program Manager to see an Activity, it must be part of the associated Pact.

Create Activities and then Create a Pact that you then associate with your Activities

What URL do I share in my Trust Fund application?

Please share the Pact URL as part of your Trust Fund application.

How do I turn on the Sediment & Nutrient Load Reduction Models?

In FieldDoc 2.0, models are not automatically generated. Users must complete the data input as a final step and ask the system to generate the outputs.

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Did you and assign the related Activity(ies) to the Pact?

The Trust Fund Program managers can only see activity records that are included in a Pact created through their Pact Opportunity. Please reach out to to get a code to create your Pact. Once Activity records are created or added to the Pact, you must click "submit to funder" for the records to be shared with Trust Fund program managers.

Sites are in the process of returning a more generalized organizational folder called . If you typically create multiple sites within your project, you must adjust your approach for this funding cycle.

and build your activities within the Pact

Learn more:

Create a Pact
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ari.engelberg@maryland.gov
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