NIHHIS Heat Tabletop Exercise Design Challenge 2026
A federal prize competition inviting submission of situational manuals for extreme-heat tabletop exercises, aimed at community heat resilience and preparedness. A million-dollar purse for a written deliverable, not a grant proposal.
- Indicative award
- up to $1M (varies by call)The federal listing states total cash prizes of $1,000,000. The number of winners and per-winner amounts are not published on that listing.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · Jun, Jul, AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-12 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.Opened June 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET; closes August 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET. The '2026' in the title implies NOAA may repeat it in future years, but no future cycle is published.
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Community organisation, Any faculty rank, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- The federal listing states the competition runs under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 and refers entrants to NOAA's hosting page for complete eligibility; that heat.gov page returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so entity type and citizenship/incorporation rules are unverified here. Contact nihhis@noaa.gov to confirm before submitting.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- extreme heat · climate adaptation · emergency preparedness · tabletop exercise design · community resilience
- Apply at
- https://heat.gov/news-events/2026-heat-tabletop-exercise-design-challenge-now-open/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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