Tennessee American Water’s Environmental Grant Program

Water sustains and supports all life on earth. With an American Water Environmental Grant, your community or community-based organization can lend the water supply or watershed a helping hand by working to improve, restore or protect it.

Funding Information

• Maximum grant amount: $3,500.

Eligible Project Must Meed the Following Criteria

• be completed between May 1, 2022, and November 30, 2022
• be a new or innovative program for the community, or serve as a significant expansion to an existing program
• be carried out by a formal or informal partnership between two or more organizations
• provide evidence of sustainability (continue existence after the American Water grant monies are utilized)
• be located within an American Water service area.

Example of Activities

• Watershed Cleanup
• Reforestation Efforts
• Biodiversity Projects (habitat restoration, wildlife protection)
• Streamside Buffer Restoration Projects
• Wellhead Protection Initiatives
• Hazardous Waste Collection Efforts
• Surface or Groundwater Protection Education (i.e., designing and providing workshops for citizens and local officials)

Eligibility Criteria

Project activities and outcomes should address a watershed or source water protection need in the local community within American Water service areas. Source water protection projects are activities that result in the protection or improvement of the community’s public drinking water supplies. Watershed protection projects should focus on activities that improve, restore or protect one or more watersheds.