The Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program (CGI) supports projects that bring green infrastructure into Oregon communities.
Donor Name: Department of Land Conservation and Development
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This includes:
- Planting or building green infrastructure that benefits people and ecosystems
- Growing and supplying native plants and seeds
- Creating green infrastructure master plans
Green infrastructure consists of nature-based systems that increase community resilience by managing stormwater, reducing heat, restoring landscapes, and providing a wide array of other benefits. Examples of green infrastructure include trees, rain gardens, bioswales, and green roofs.
Types of Grant categories
- Community Green Infrastructure Projects
- Community Green Infrastructure Program (CGI) grants help carry out green infrastructure projects that provide direct social, environmental, and economic benefits to communities throughout Oregon; fund the production of native seeds and plants; and create and implement green infrastructure master plans
- Green Infrastructure Economic Development
- This category provides funds for offsetting the cost of planning and developing Community Green Infrastructure Projects or Green Infrastructure Economic Development Projects.
- Native Seed Banks & Native Plant Nurseries
- This category provides funds for developing and supporting native seed banks and native plant nurseries to increase production of native plants that may be used in future green infrastructure projects.
- Green Infrastructure Master Plans
- This category provides funds for new, or amending existing, green infrastructure master plans, and for implementing green infrastructure elements of existing master plans.
Funding Information
- Community Green Infrastructure Projects $10,000 – $300,000
- Green Infrastructure Economic Development $10,000 – $500,000
- Native Seed Banks & Native Plant Nurseries $10,000 – $200,000
- Green Infrastructure Master Plans $10,000 – $250,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community Green Infrastructure Projects
- Local governments and other public bodies
- Federally recognized tribes in Oregon
- Nonprofit and faith-based organizations
- Local workforce development boards
- Watershed councils
- Manufactured dwelling park nonprofit cooperatives
- Native seed banks and native plant nurseries.
- Green Infrastructure Economic Development
- Public body as defined
- Local workforce development board as defined
- Manufactured dwelling park nonprofit cooperative as defined
- Indian tribe federally recognized in Oregon
- Watershed council as defined
- Nonprofit organization (registered with the Oregon Secretary of State)
- Faith-based organization
- Native Seed Banks and Native Plant Nurseries
- Native seed bank
- Native seed bank” is defined as a store of seeds from native plants that helps to preserve genetic diversity in those plant species to increase plant yield and health, including disease resistance and drought tolerance; hold seeds and plants for the restorative health of a community; or support the replanting of post-fire successional plants.
- Native plant nursery: an Oregon nursery that specializes in plants native to Oregon.
- Oregon nursery” is defined as a person that holds a license required by issued by the State Department of Agriculture; or a nursery operated by an Indian tribe, an entity wholly owned by an Indian tribe, or an enrolled member of an Indian tribe and operated on the tribe’s reservation or trust land.
- Native seed bank
- Green Infrastructure Master Plans
- Public body as defined
- Indian tribe federally recognized in Oregon.
For more information, visit DLCD.