The Chesapeake Bay Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Grant Program funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III (EPA) and the Chesapeake Bay Trust was created to support design projects, financing strategies, and/or implementation of green street projects.
Donor Name: Chesapeake Bay Trust
States: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C
County: All Counties
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The goal of this grant program is to help communities develop and implement plans that reduce stormwater runoff, increase the number and amount of green spaces in urban areas, improve the health of local streams and the Chesapeake Bay, and enhance the quality of life and community livability. This collaborative effort supports the implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Executive Order and serves as a key component of EPA’s Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Partnership. The G3 Partnership provides support for local, grassroots-level greening efforts to reduce stormwater runoff from towns and communities in urbanized watersheds.
A green street:
- minimizes the impact on the surrounding area through a natural system approach that incorporates a variety of water quality, energy-efficiency, and other environmental best practices;
- reduces the amount of water that is piped and discharged directly to streams and rivers, protecting them
from erosion; - makes the best use of the street tree canopy for the stormwater interception, temperature mitigation, and
air quality improvement; - incorporates climate resiliency and flood hazard mitigation planning;
- encourages pedestrian and/or bicycle access;
- provides an aesthetic advantage to a community and economic advantage to business districts that are
greened; and - can have human health benefits.
Funding Information
Up to $15,000 for conceptual plans, up to $30,000 for engineered designs, up to $150,000 for implementation projects, up to $50,000 for community greening projects, up to $20,000 for white papers.
Eligible Project Types
- Green Street Conceptual Plan (generally less than $15,000)
- Green Street Engineered Design (generally less than $30,000)
- Green Street implementation/Construction of Green Streets (generally less than $150,000)
- Community Greening (generally less than $50,000)
- White papers that summarize analysis of one or more aspects of green infrastructure or tools that promote green infrastructure efforts (generally less than $20,000)
- Green Street Charrette/Technical Planning Assistance
What these funds
This program supports design projects, financing strategies, and/or implementation of green street and community greening projects. This program also supports white papers on innovative ideas for green infrastructure and charrettes to plan and vision a green street project with developers, citizens, planners, and other key stakeholders. Grant funding can be applied anywhere in the Chesapeake Bay watershed portion of EPA Region 3 (excludes New York). Use this kmz file in Google Earth to determine if your project location is eligible. Applicants applying for the implementation/construction and greening of vacant lots will be asked to use the G3 Implementation Project Calculator spreadsheet to show the breakdown of Green Infrastructure costs.
Eligible Applicants
Funding Partners and the Trust welcome requests from local government, non-profit organizations, and neighborhood/community associations. Funding can be applied anywhere in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (portions of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia), and all of Maryland and Washington, D.C.
For more information, visit Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3).
