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Program/Project Funding
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Grant Writing Training
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Basic
Elements of Grant Writing
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting developed this
page to provide hints and tips to grant writers.
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EPA
Grant Writing Tutorial - EPA developed this program to
help communities and nonprofit organizations identify
financial assistance opportunities for their environmentally
oriented development programs. Also, this program was
developed to make it easier for applicants to produce more
competitive grant applications.
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The
Foundation Center's online training courses
- This site provides a variety of training courses.
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Federal Funding Sources
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Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance
- This web site is a government-wide compendium of
federal programs, projects, services, and activities that
provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It
contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs
administered by departments and establishments of the federal
government.
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Catalog
of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection, Second
Edition - The EPA Office of Water has developed this
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed
Protection, 2nd ed. to inform watershed partners
of federal monies that might be available to fund a variety
of watershed protection projects. It contains a one-page fact
sheet for each of 69 funding sources indicating the types of
projects funded and eligibility requirements.
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Endangered and Threatened Species Grants
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking states
and territories to submit proposals for $28 million in grants
under four new programs established by Congress to promote
conservation of threatened and endangered species. The
Service expects to award the grants in the summer of 2001.
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Financial
Assistance Documents (Office of Wastewater Management) -
This site provide links to valuable documents outlining
various forms of financial assistance.
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Five-Star
Restoration Grant Program - The Five-Star Restoration
Grant Program brings together citizen groups, corporations,
Youth Conservation Corps, students, landowners, and
government agencies to undertake projects that restore
streambanks and wetlands. The program provides challenge
grants, technical support, and peer information exchange to
enable community-based restoration projects.
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Grants and
Fellowships Funding - Check out EPA's web site for more
information on the Agency's grants and fellowships.
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Hardship
Grants Program for Rural Communities - Many rural
communities lack the resources to afford the full cost of
Clean Water State Revolving Fund loans to improve their
outdated or failing wastewater treatment services. The
Hardship Grants Program is designed to complement the Clean
Water State Revolving Fund Program, which allows states to
make loans to communities and individuals for high-priority
water quality projects. States are given a high degree of
flexibility in how they manage the new Hardship Grants
Program and are responsible for selecting the projects.
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Process for
Applying for 319(h) funds - Clean Water Act Section
319(h) funds are provided only to designated state and tribal
agencies to implement their approved nonpoint source
management programs. State and tribal nonpoint source
programs include a variety of components, including technical
assistance, financial assistance, education, training,
technology transfer, demonstration projects, and regulatory
programs.
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Rural Community Assistance
Program
- RCAP is a national
network of nonprofit organizations that works to improve
water and waste disposal facilities for rural communities,
particularly low-income communities. Through the Office of
Wastewater Management funding, RCAP provides on-site
technical assistance and information transfer to communities
in the areas of needs assessment, financing, technology
selection, operations and maintenance, management practices,
and systems restructuring and consolidation to achieve and
maintain national compliance. Its goal is to enhance the
ability of rural communities to plan, develop, operate, and
maintain water and wastewater systems.
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State
Revolving Fund (SRF) - Under the SRF program, each state
(and Puerto Rico) may create revolving loan funds to provide
independent and permanent sources of low-cost financing for a
range of water quality infrastructure projects. Funds to
establish or capitalize the SRF programs are provided by the
federal (83 percent) and state (17 percent) governments.
Currently, all 50 states and Puerto Rico are operating
successful SRF programs. Capitalization began in 1988; today
total assets of the SRF program stand at more than $34
billion.
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Private Funding Sources
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America's Charities
- America's Charities is a coalition of the nation's
best-known and most-loved charitable organizations –
groups that provide direct services in thousands of local
communities, across the United States and around the world.
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Directory of Funding Sources for Grassroots River and
Watershed Conservation - Compiled by Alison Cook and Pat
Munoz, this diectory provides profiles of foundations,
corporations, state and federal agencies, and other
nonprofits that support small, nonprofit watershed groups, as
well as a few sources that support tribes. Only multistate
funders are included in this directory. Includes contact
information, grant sizes, and a brief description of each
source's particular interests. Contains sections on grant
proposal writing, indexes, and resources. Order online from
the
Rivernetwork.
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Directory
of State Environmental Federations and Social Action
Funds
- Rivernetwork developed this list of environmental
federations and social action funds organized by state.
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The Foundation Center
- The Foundation Center's mission is to support and
improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public
understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed.
This site contains an online library of private and corporate
funding sources, online training on proposal writing, and
helpful publications.
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Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation
- The foundation's environmental mission is to support
the efforts of an engaged citizenry working to create
accountable and responsive institutions, sound public
policies, and appropriate models of development that protect
the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North
America and around the world.
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The
Environmental Finance Center
- This web site provides links to the environmental
finance community. Among the information included at this
site is information on watershed management and water quality
sites and sources of assistance.
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Global Environmental and
Technology Foundation
- The Global Environmental & Technology Foundation
(GETF) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that helps
create the infrastructure necessary to achieve sustainable
development. Since 1988 GETF has played a key role in
designing and implementing initiatives that improve the
quality of life in all of its economic, environmental, and
social dimensions.
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Land Trust Alliance
- The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary land
conservation across the country and provides resources,
leadership, and training to the nation's nonprofit,
grassroots land trusts, helping them to protect important
open spaces. They provide financial assistance, training, and
publications.
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Pew Charitable Trusts
- The mission of the Trust's environmental program is to
promote policies and practices that protect the global
atmosphere and preserve old-growth forest, wilderness, and
marine ecosystems. The organizations with which they work are
widely representative of the American public, encompassing
constituencies at the local, state, regional, and national
levels.
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Philip Morris Companies Inc.
- Philip Morris is one of the largest corporate
supporters of environmental protection and conservation
causes. From small grassroots groups to large organizations
working in locations from Oregon to Argentina, they support a
wide range of nonprofit organizations employing a variety of
approaches and strategies.
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Prospect
Hill Foundation
- The foundation's environmental grant-making program
concentrates on habitat and water protection in the
northeastern region of the United States. It encourages
proposals from organizations that offer strategies and
policies for the conservation of significant private and
public lands and strengthen policies and initiate means of
improving water quality and protecting coastal areas.
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A State
and Local Government Guide to Environmental Program Funding
Alternatives - This document provides an overview of
nongovernmental funding mechanisms and innovative approaches
to fund environmental programs.
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Tides
Foundation
- The Tides Foundation actively promotes change toward a
healthy society, one that is founded on principles of social
justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust
democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices.
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Trust for Public Lands
- TPL's legal and real estate specialists work with
landowners, government agencies, and community groups to
create urban parks, gardens, greenways, and riverways; build
livable communities by setting aside open space in the path
of growth; conserve land for watershed protection, scenic
beauty, and close-to-home recreation; and safeguard the
character of communities by preserving historic landmarks and
landscapes.
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Turner
Foundation
- The foundation's water environmental goals are to
strengthen the advocacy, outreach, and technical capabilities
of organizations addressing the protection of water systems;
reduce wasteful water use through conservation; promote
allocation of water specifically for environmental purposes,
including habitat restoration and fish and wildlife
protection; and support efforts to improve public policies
affecting water protection, including initiatives to secure
pollution prevention and habitat protection.
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Watershed Assistance Grants (River Network and U.S. EPA)
- The primary purpose of the Watershed Assistance Grants
(WAG) program is to support the growth and sustainability
(i.e., organizational capacity) of local watershed
partnerships in the United States. For the purpose of this
program, a "watershed partnership" is defined as an
inclusive, enduring, diverse, community-based group organized
to identify and resolve watershed problems and issues.
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Funding for Stormwater Management
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Financing
Stormwater Management
- This web site is designed to help communities find
ways to pay for stormwater management projects. The site
includes an annotated bibliography of existing stormwater
finance materials, an archive that contains selected
previously published materials concerning stormwater finance,
a manual that discusses the financing options available to
communities for stormwater management programs, a set of case
studies that describe successful finance mechanisms that have
been used in seven communities around the country, and a
group of links to other useful web sites about stormwater
management.
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Budgets
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Examples
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Clark
County Clean Water Fund Budget - This site enables a user to download
the January 1, 2000, to April 30, 2000, budget for the
Clark County Clean Water Fund.
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Funding Sources for Indian Tribes and
Terrorities
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Clean
Water Act Section 106 Tribal Pollution Grant Control
Program - Grants under section 106 of the CWA are
intended to assist Indian tribes in carrying out effective
water pollution control programs. The grants may be used to
fund a wide range of water quality activities, including
water quality planning and assessments; development of water
quality standards; ambient monitoring; development of Total
Maximum Daily Loads; issuance of permits; ground water and
wetland protection; and nonpoint source control activities.
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Clean Water
Indian Set-Aside Program - This EPA grant program
supports the construction of wastewater treatment facilities
for Indian tribes, Alaska native villages, and tribes on
former reservations in Oklahoma.
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Tribal
Environmental and Natural Resource Assistance Handbook -
This handbook is intended to provide a central location for
federal sources of both technical and financial assistance
available to tribes for environmental management. Many tribes
have limited environmental staffs that are faced with the
challenge of addressing a broad range of environmental
issues.
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