Our Grant Making Strategy
Currently, the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund offers grants
through two mechanisms, the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants
Program and the Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction
Program. In total the, Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund
awards 60 to 85 grants annually. These programs combine funds
from federal and private partners, leverage local match, to
implement projects that:
- Improve water quality and prevent pollution sources from further
degrading water quality in the Bay and its tributaries;
- Restore vital habitats and prevent habitat loss in the Bay and its
tributaries and/or;
- Improve local watersheds through building local capacity for the
stewardship of watershed resources.
Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with EPA
and the Chesapeake Bay Program, will award Chesapeake
Bay Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction grants on a
competitive basis of between $200,000 and $1 million each to support the
demonstration of innovative approaches to expand the collective
knowledge about the most cost effective and sustainable approaches to
dramatically reduce or eliminate nutrient and sediment pollution to the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. (Note: In 2005 - 2007, these
grants were referred to as "Targeted Watershed Grants.")
Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program
The Chesapeake
Bay Small Watershed Grants (SWG) Program provides grants of
$20,000 to $200,000 to organizations and local governments working on a
local level to implement protects that improve small watersheds in the
Chesapeake Bay basin, while building citizen-based resource stewardship.
This program is funded by EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office, as
well as the US Forest
Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the D.C.
Department of the Environment, with additional corporate funding support
from Altria, FedEx and Perdue Farms.
Funding opportunity
exists for the 2010 Chesapeake Small Watershed Grants Program.
Proposals will be due on May 17, 2010. For
more information and to view the RFP, click here.
