Applicants are invited to apply for the Urban and Community Forestry Program.
Donor Name: Delaware Department of Agriculture (DDA)
State: Delaware
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Objectives
- Increase urban tree canopy in Delaware by promoting quality tree planting and management projects.
- To diversify, enhance, and promote the proper stewardship of Delaware’s urban forest resources.
- To encourage sustainable urban and community forestry programs throughout Delaware.
- Promote green infrastructure that will improve storm water management.
- To improve air quality through urban forest management practices.
- Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, in tree canopy improvement efforts
Grant funds can help communities develop an effective urban and community forestry program through the following types of projects:
- Tree planting (urban forest buffers, street trees and open space plantings) or
- Tree management (professionally developed tree inventories, tree pruning, or hazardous tree removal).
Funding Information
Grant requests must be a minimum of $500 not to exceed $5,000.
Criteria
- Municipalities, Homeowners Associations, Communities, Non-Profit Organizations are eligible to apply.
- Eligible projects must be performed on public lands within the community. Public lands are lands owned by state, county, or local governments along with lands classified as public open space within Municipalities, Homeowners Associations (HOA’s), Maintenance Corporations (MC’s), etc. Public lands include parks, green-ways, recreation areas, and public rights-of-way or easements.
- Applicants must have an Employer Identification Number (EIN) – no payment will be made to individuals.
- Applications should be received from the community representative, such as board members. Applications will NOT be accepted if submitted by property management companies or contractors on behalf of the community.
- Applications for hazard tree removal must have tree(s) evaluated by a certified arborist and deemed hazardous to qualify for funds. Any tree removed must be replaced by the applicant at its own expense. The replaced tree must be shown prior to reimbursement of grant award.
- Tree pruning projects must be performed by a certified arborist on site. The arborist certification number must be provided on the bid.
- The urban and community forestry grant is a reimbursement grant. No funding will be provided ahead of the project completion and DFS will not pay contractors directly. No project can take place ahead of application approval.
For more information, visit DDA.
