The King Conservation District (KCD) Seattle Community Partnership Grant Program is a grant opportunity for community-led projects that improve natural resources and advance racial justice in Seattle.
Donor Name: King Conservation District
State: Washington
City: Seattle
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/04/2022
Size of the Grant: $75,000
Details:
King Conservation District is a natural resources assistance agency that promotes the sustainable use of natural resources. Across the United States and here in Seattle, race is the most significant predictor of a person living near contaminated or deteriorating natural resources that impact health and wellbeing. For this reason, this grant program supports projects that improve natural resources and are co-created by, led by and benefit people most impacted by environmental and climate issues: Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrants, refugees, people with low incomes, youth and elders.
Projects must focus on at least one of the following KCD natural resource priority areas:
- Managing and preventing pollution caused by stormwater runoff:
- Protecting and restoring creeks, shorelines, and wetlands:
- This can include activities such as removing invasive weeds, replanting native trees, shrubs and groundcovers to improve wildlife habitat and water quality.
- Building healthy soil:
- This can include activities such as soil tests, amending community garden or urban farm soil, learning about and applying the appropriate amount of fertilizer, mulch and compost as well as installing on-site compost bins, and more.
- Protecting and restoring the urban forest:
- Activities can include (but are not limited to) planting conifers in a deciduous tree dominated area, planting a diverse array of native plants, restoring native plants to an area, removing invasive weeds.
- Supporting a sustainable food system:
- This can include activities such as building/creating/expanding a community garden, growing food distributed to local community groups, and improving access to healthy, local food.
Natural Resource Improvement Actions:
How will your project go about improving natural resources in the priority areas outlined above?
- Direct Improvement of Natural Resource Conditions:
- Improve landscape and natural conditions through direct action that enhances water quality, protects and conserves soils, implements ecosystem restoration and preservation projects.
- Education and Outreach:
- Raise awareness, deepen knowledge, and change behaviors to practice exemplary stewardship of natural resources.
- Pilot and Demonstration Projects:
- Test and/or improve concepts and/or approaches in natural resource management that can be replicated by others.
- Capacity Building:
- Enhance the knowledge, skills, tools, support systems, partnerships, community connections, and technical resources to implement exemplary best management practices and deliver natural resource management actions equitably.
Funding Information
Grants are awarded and administered by the King Conservation District and reviewed by the City of Seattle. This year, $744,000 in funding is available. Projects will be awarded for no more than $75,000 and can take place over multiple years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations or community groups whose work centers and is co-created and/or led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color, immigrants, refugees, people with low incomes, youth, and elders.
- Only one application per organization is allowed, except if the organization serves as a fiscal sponsor for multiple projects.
- Organizations or community groups must have a 501(c)3 nonprofit status or a fiscal sponsor with a 501(c)3 nonprofit status to be eligible to apply. The fiscal sponsor organization should submit the application. If the community group submits the application, a letter verifying their fiscal sponsor relationship or the fiscal sponsorship agreement must be uploaded to the grant application in the online grant portal. A letter template for fiscal sponsor confirmation is available on the website.
- The fiscal sponsor confirmation letter must include the following information.
- Name of the fiscal sponsor organization
- Name of the applicant organization
- The fiscal sponsor’s EIN (the Federal Tax Identification Number)
- Signature of the fiscal sponsor contact
- If you do not have a fiscal sponsor and need one, please contact us as soon as possible.
For more information, visit Seattle Community Partnership Grant Fund.
