The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requesting applications for the Trash Free Waters Art and Slogan Competition.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goal of this funding opportunity is to advance protection and restoration of the Gulf of Mexico by investigating how environmental messages impact public behaviors or actions through demonstrated litter prevention and reduction assessments. The competition is a novel approach to stimulating interest in sustained preservation of the Gulf of Mexico and in conveying how litter impacts water quality and habits.
This funding opportunity is intended to generate applications for a recipient to create and manage a state-wide high school art/slogan competition focused on a reduction of plastic/trash in freshwater and/or marine systems in one of the five Gulf states. The artwork and slogans will be used to educate the public on benefits of reducing trash in waterways. The winning school will receive no more than 10 water refill stations. One recipient from each of the five Gulf states will be selected for a cooperative agreement.
The applicant will be responsible for developing the following activities:
- Creation of an art/slogan competition directed at high schools in the state.
- Development of a diverse review panel to judge artwork/slogan submissions.
- Plans for community cleanups to raise awareness using winning artwork.
- Development of an outreach program to display winning artwork/slogan via multiple outlets to include billboards, PSAs, social media, displays of printed artwork/slogan.
- Development of a plan to continue the artwork/slogan campaign for one year.
Funding Information
EPA expects to provide approximately $3 million for five projects, one in each gulf state, in this funding opportunity. The maximum amount of federal funds that will be awarded for any project in this funding opportunity is $600,000. Proposed project periods may be up to three years.
Eligible Activities
- Projects submitted must align with the Clean Water Act 104(b)(3), which authorizes the award of grants to conduct and promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution.
- Demonstration projects must involve new or experimental technologies, methods, or approaches, where the results of the project will be disseminated so that others can benefit from the knowledge gained in the demonstration project. The applicant must clearly explain in the proposal how the technologies, methods, or approaches used are new or experimental and how the project otherwise meets the requirements of a demonstration as described in this NOFO. If your project uses technologies, methods or approaches that have been used previously in other geographic areas and/or other situations, then your proposal must include an explanation as to how your demonstration project is different from such prior projects. The applicant must also explain what will be learned from the demonstration project.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with Assistance Listing 66.475, governmental entities, including state agencies, interstate agencies, Indian tribes, local governments, institutions of higher learning, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding under this NOFO. School districts or high schools designated as one of the eligible entities above are eligible.
- Nonprofit organizations that are not exempt from taxation under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code must submit other forms of documentation of nonprofit status such as certificates of incorporation as nonprofit under state or tribal law.
- For-profit organizations are not eligible entities for this funding opportunity.
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