The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation is now accepting applications for its Green Resiliency Grants.
Donor Name: New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Green Resiliency Grants is designed to support flood-prone communities in implementing transformative green infrastructure projects that combat the effects of extreme weather.
The Green Innovation Grant Program supports projects across New York State that utilize unique EPA-designated green stormwater infrastructure design and create cutting-edge green technologies. Competitive grants are awarded to projects that implement one or more of the following green practices: green stormwater infrastructure, energy efficiency, water efficiency and environmental innovation.
Green infrastructure projects provide benefits such as:
- Safer, more resilient communities: Managing stormwater to mitigate flooding and better protect the homes and businesses.
- Cleaner water and air: Reducing and treating stormwater at the source.
- Cooler cities: Reducing urban heat island effect to create a more comfortable environment.
- Thriving ecosystems: Restoring habitats to bring nature back to communities.
- Vibrant communities: Encouraging economic development, revitalizing neighborhoods, and enhancing recreational opportunities.
Eligible Activities
- Regional Green Infrastructure projects utilize nature-based solutions to establish or restore natural landscape features that improve water quality and support healthy watersheds, while also protecting wildlife and their habitats.
- Local Green Infrastructure projects are typically located in an urban environment and consist of site and neighborhood specific SMPs. These projects typically provide co-benefits such as reduced CSO and SSO events, flood protection, habitat restoration, improved air and water quality, reduction in urban heat island effect, and street and neighborhood beautification that can spur economic development and community revitalization.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any municipality, as defined by NYS Environmental Conservation Law Article 58 to include “a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, school district, supervisory district, district corporation, improvement district within a county, city, town or village, or Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York state, or any combination thereof.”;
- Any public benefit corporation or public authority established pursuant to the laws of New York; or
- Any agency of the State that is empowered to construct and operate a water quality infrastructure project, including state entities.
- Any municipality, as defined by NYS Environmental Conservation Law Article 58 to include “a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, school district, supervisory district, district corporation, improvement district within a county, city, town or village, or Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York state, or any combination thereof.”;
- Any public benefit corporation or public authority established pursuant to the laws of New York; or
- Any agency of the State that is empowered to construct and operate a water quality infrastructure project, including state entities.
For more information, visit NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation.
