Whidbey Climate ACTION is soliciting proposals to fund local projects that reduce greenhouse gases and enhance sustainability in community.
Donor Name: Whidbey Community Foundation
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Whidbey Climate Fund supports climate change mitigation and resilience projects on Whidbey Island. Project outcomes might include but are not limited to the following:
- Educates community & decision makers on how to live more lightly (e.g., lessening ecological footprint)
- Reduces carbon pollution from local sources – transportation, buildings, etc.
- Reduces/reuses “waste”
- Benefits a marginalized community living with a greater burden from climate impacts
- Builds community around environmental health
- Improves local food system
- Improves aquifer health
- Regenerates soil and sequesters carbon
- Protects & restores ecosystem health
Grants of up to $5,000 will be funded by the Whidbey Climate Fund, administered via a partnership with Whidbey Community Foundation.
Whidbey Community Foundation expect projects to be:
- Credible (e.g. achieved with sound methodologies and practices),
- Additional (e.g. made possible because of the fund),
- Quantifiable (e.g. resulting in measurable carbon reductions or other ecosystem improvements),
- Permanent (e.g. the effects will not be easily undone)
Eligibility Criteria
The following are eligible to apply:
- Non-profits that propose a project on Whidbey Island
- Governmental entities based on Whidbey Island
- Individuals or businesses, with a non-profit fiscal sponsor
For more information, visit Whidbey Community Foundation.
