This should be of interest to many Great Lakes organizations.
David
Rankin
Program Director
Great Lakes Protection Fund
35 E. Wacker Drive,
Suite 1880
Chicago, IL
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From:
rwiesner@lta.org
<
rwiesner@lta.org>
To:
landtrust@indiana.edu <
landtrust@indiana.edu>
Date:
Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:49 AM
Subject: Watershed funds available from
River Net
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New Watershed
Assistance Grants Available
EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and
Watersheds recently awarded River Network $300,000 to be used for grants to
local watershed partnerships to support organizational development and long term
effectiveness.
River Network, a national organization based in Portland,
Oregon,
supports river and watershed advocates at the local, state,
and
regional levels. Under the Watershed Assistance Grants program
in
1999, grants ranging from $2,000 to $30,000 will be distributed
to
support watershed partnerships working to protect and restore
their
watersheds.
Grant applications will be available after December
1, 1998.
To request an application, you can write to River Network,
Watershed
Assistance Grants Program, PO Box 8787, Portland, OR 97207 or email
River Network at
info@rivernetwork.org.
For
additional information, visit River >Network's web site at
http://www.rivernetwork.org/ All
future information regarding the Grant program will be posted there as soon as
it becomes
available.
More Background on the grants available
through the River Network:
There will be a two-tiered application
process: Mini-Grants ($4,000
and under) will be awarded for clearly defined,
short-term
organizational development projects; and twelve month,
Watershed
Assistance Grants ($4,000- $30,000) for projects of
demonstrable
impact. River Network and a national advisory panel will
select the
grantees, with the first round of money slated to be distributed
in
February 1999. The panel will include representatives from
local and tribal governments, industry, and experts in watershed
management.
Grants will be distributed to a pool of applicants that are
diverse in
terms of geography, watershed issues, the type of partnership,
and
approaches. Through the Program, River Network will make grants
to
projects demonstrating nationally important lessons associated
with
group process, formation, organizational structure, and actions
to
protect and restore watersheds. Applicants from new and
existing
watershed partnerships should be representative of the
diverse
population within the target watershed, and they should describe
how
the partnerships will ultimately make a measurable
difference
environmentally.
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