The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) is seeking applications for its Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program Maintenance Grants.
Donor Name: Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps)
State: Michigan
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,000
Grant Duration: 7 months
Details:
MiCorps VSMP Maintenance Grants
- Maintenance grants are supporting funds for organizations who run MiCorps Volunteer Stream Monitoring Programs.
- Maintenance grants can provide money to allow staff to attend the MiCorps stream training and annual conferences, buy monitoring equipment, and pay for staff to hold monitoring events, identify macroinvertebrates, and upload monitoring data to the MiCorps database.
- Depending on demand, MiCorps may ask the applicants to reduce their grant requests to a value no less than $1,000 in order to provide maintenance grants to as many applicants as possible.
Funding Information
- Funds can pay for staff time, equipment, and travel to MiCorps trainings and conferences, are a maximum of $2,000, and last for eight months.
- Project contracts are for approximately seven months.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, entities must meet all of the following:
- Local units of government and not-for-profit entities are eligible to receive grant funding. Nonprofit entities are those exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eligible entities generally include county, city, township, and village agencies; watershed and environmental action councils; universities; regional planning agencies; and incorporated not-for-profit organizations.
- Must not have had a grant revoked or terminated or demonstrated an inability to manage a grant or meet the obligations in a project contract within the 24-month period immediately preceding the application.
- The applicant must have a MiCorps approved macroinvertebrate monitoring QAPP dated no later than two years prior to the application deadline (dated on or after March 7, 2021). To get QAPP approval, contact Dr. Steen. All QAPPs pending approval must be received by February 21, 2024, to allow time for review.
- If the applicant received a Maintenance Grant in 2022, they must have successfully closed out this grant on-time to be eligible in 2023.
- Supply proof of a successful financial audit of the applicant organization conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards for a period ending within the two years immediately preceding the RFP due date, as demonstrated by an Independent Auditor’s Report signed by a Certified Public Accountant from a Comprehensive Annual Report. Note: The audit date (on or after March 7, 2021) is based on the audit period and not the date of the audit or the audit letter.
- Entities that do not have an audit can partner with an eligible local unit of government or a nonprofit organization with a current audit that will serve as the primary applicant and fiduciary agent for the grant.
For more information, visit MiCorps.
