Great Lakes Emerging Champions – Mini-Grant Program
Great Lakes Emerging Champions – Mini-Grant Program

Great Lakes Emerging Champions – Mini-Grant Program

Great Lakes Emerging Champions

Great Lakes Emerging Champions Mini-Grants are intended to increase green infrastructure implementation capacity in communities of 250,000 people or less in the Great Lakes Basin.

With support of up to $15,000, communities can develop strategies to overcome the barriers they currently face in implementing green infrastructure.

There are four general focus areas for projects:

  1. Local code/ordinance review and revision
  2. Green infrastructure operation and maintenance training, procedures, and workforce development
  3.  Developing strategies for sustainable funding streams
  4. Other projects – examples include feasibility studies, tool development, education and outreach programs, or other projects that address implementation barriers.

Application are due July 31, 2019.

For more details on funding and eligibility you can review the RFP here.

May 17, 2019