The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District offers the Community Recycling Awareness Grant (CRAG) to help communities educate residents about waste reduction and proper recycling.
Donor Name: Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District
State: Ohio
County: Cuyahoga County (OH)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The District created the grant to keep recycling messages consistent from community to community through the use of custom templates, designed by the District, for communities to use. Funding is also available to help communities conduct recycling collection events; shredding events; purchase permanent signage for recycling programs and events; purchase public space recycling containers; purchase drop-off recycling containers; and purchase public space composting containers. Applications for events and equipment must contain an associated educational component.
Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis according to the evaluation criteria listed below and are subject to final approval by the District’s Board of Directors.
This grant helps communities educate residents about recycling, typically through printed materials such as brochures, refrigerator magnets, newsletters and fliers or calendars. To make it easy to produce these materials and to keep recycling messages consistent across the county, the District has graphics, customizable templates and design tools for communities to use.
Funding is also available to help communities conduct shredding events and to purchase public space recycling containers.
Funding Information
Any community (city, village, or township) located in Cuyahoga County may apply for a grant up to $6,000.
Eligible Projects/ Costs
The types of eligible projects are listed below. There is no local match required for this grant unless a project’s cost exceeds the grant amount awarded by the District. In this case, the community must fund the excess cost.
- Recycling Awareness and Education Materials
- Allowable costs include design, printing, production and mailing of brochures, calendars, cart tags, fliers, info cards, mailers, newsletters, postcards, recycling signs, cart stickers, banners, and refrigerator magnets. Communities must use either the customizable templates or the design tools provided in the CuyahogaRecycles.org ToolKit to produce any grant funded items. The ToolKit has templates for refrigerator magnets, banners, info cards, cart tags and signs. It also has graphics and text that can be incorporated into other items like calendars and brochures. Additionally, they will work with any community to create a custom piece.
- Note: Any printed material (signs, posters, calendars, cart stickers, booklets, labels, etc.) must be approved by District staff prior to the grantee producing or printing the item/material.
- Brand guidelines, logos, icons, and customizable pieces can be accessed at:
- Login: CCSWDToolKit (‘K” must be capitalized)
- Password: Wel0verecycling! (“0” is a zero, not a letter)
- Hard click on your community’s name to highlight it in blue, then submit. The login will take you to your customizable products.
- Recycling or Composting Containers
- Allowable costs include purchase of public space recycling or composting containers, event recycling containers, and container signage to indicate what should be recycled.
- Note: Any printed material (signs, posters, calendars, cart stickers, booklets, labels, etc.) must be approved by District staff prior to the grantee producing or printing the item/material
- Paper Shredding Events and Special Waste Collections
- Allowable costs include hiring a paper shredding company, signage, and event promotions such as print ads. Communities should include two quotes for paper shredding services in their application. No more than two shredding events per applicant will be funded.Note: Every application and project must include elements of recycling awareness and education. The District will not fund shredding event(s) without an educational component. Consider that messaging and lists of acceptable materials have changed, and items you created previously may no longer be applicable.
- Note: Accommodations are to be made by the community and the contractor for volume capacity and staffing for the entire advertised time of the event.
- Other Awareness Project
- If your community would like to propose another type of project that is in keeping with the goals of this grant program, please contact District staff to discuss.
For more information, visit Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District.
