The Community Engagement and Restoration Mini Grant Program is designed to support activities that enhance communities, engage residents, and improve natural resources.
Donor Name: Chesapeake Bay Trust
State: Maryland and West Virginia
County: All Counties
City/Town: Selected Cities and Town
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This grant program is designed to engage diverse organizations in activities in Maryland and in West Virginia both benefit communities and raise public awareness of and engagement in natural resources issues.
Organization feel that a broad range of communities can benefit from healthy natural resources, even if their primary focus is on other issues. Human health, the economy, jobs, community livability, education and the children are all connected with a healthy environment. As a result, they are investing in grants primarily to new applicants who have yet to frequently receive grants. the goals are to:
- Provide funding to groups that have traditionally been under-engaged with environmental issues, but who have a project idea that benefits both their communities and natural resources, such as native wildlife (birds, pollinators, and other species), greenery in local parks, rural or urban forests, streams, rivers, and other natural spaces;
- Engage residents in community-based protection and restoration; and
- Introduce the grant process to applicants who may not be experienced in applying for grants and managing the awards.
Funding Information
- Approximately $180,000 available for Maryland projects
- Approximately $30,000 available for West Virginia projects.
Grant Period
Projects should be completed within 12 months upon receipt of the award.
Eligible Project
They encourage projects that want to accomplish multiple benefits, such as meeting community goals and improving environmental health. they aim to fund community engagement and/or restoration projects that support goals such as:
- Connecting community members to natural resources such as wildlife, nearby water bodies, local parks and trails, and trees;
- Increasing awareness and/or knowledge of historically under-engaged groups about beautification and improvements using restoration practices such as native plants that bloom in spring;
- Involving new to environmental work or historically under-engaged groups and connecting their goals natural resource protection/improvement;
- Engaging residents in community-based restoration projects and encouraging behavior changes that benefit environmental health;
- Educating residents about the connection between human health and being outdoors, which could be done while planting a tree in their neighborhood;
- Promoting community engagement among multiple partners, particularly those whose primary focus is outside the environmental field; and/or
- Encouraging organizations, when pursuing natural resource projects, to engage the communities in which they work.
Eligible Project Locations
All communities in Maryland and in the Chesapeake Bay watershed portion of West Virginia are eligible.
Eligibility Criteria
they welcome requests from the following organizations:
- Nonprofits;
- Faith-based;
- Community and Homeowners Associations;
- Service, Youth, and Civic Groups; and/or
- Municipal, County, Regional, State, Federal Public Agencies.
For more information, visit CBT.
