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Apply Now: Clean Water Program Grants
The Clean Water Program Alameda County is offering grants up to $5,000 for community-based projects that help keep our waterways clean.
Photo: Community stewardship grants fund creative litter-prevention projects like this display on disposable packaging at an event encouraging the use of reusable containers. Other grant funded projects include community cleanups, public trash can installations and more.
The Clean Water Program of Alameda County is inviting applications for its 2015 Community Stewardship Grant Program, designed to encourage and facilitate community-based actions that enhance and protect the health of local waterways. Proposed projects must be aimed at storm water pollution prevention in Alameda County and contain a community or public outreach element. This year’s grant cycle focuses on litter reduction projects in particular. Funding requests between $1,000 and $5,000 per project will be considered, for a total grant budget of $25,000. Eligible applicants include teacher and student groups, youth organizations, homeowners associations, community groups, environmental groups and other non-profit organizations. Deadline for submissions is April 13, 2015.
To read the press release visit www.cleanwaterprogram.org/news
For more info, to download an application packet, view sample completed applications and for descriptions of projects funded in the past, visit www.cleanwaterprogram.org/grants
