Community Corner
Apply Now: Clean Water Program Grants
Up to $5,000 for community-based projects that help protect creeks, wetlands and the Bay.
Photo: Community stewardship grants fund projects that protect local waterways, such as litter cleanups, creek restoration and pollution prevention outreach.
The Clean Water Program of Alameda County is inviting applications for its 2016 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. 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 14, 2016.
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.