Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund RFP
Posted: 8/30/2020 (Funding)
Category: Conservation
Organization: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Award amount: up to $40,000
Deadline: 9/18/2020
Description: The Foundation is accepting applications to its Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund, which supports community-based efforts to mitigate past pollution runoff and protect or improve the water quality of Puget Sound. The foundation is particularly interested in proposals that benefit water quality in the following areas: the waters of central Puget Sound, especially Elliott Bay; the Duwamish River watershed, with a preference for projects that relate to the intersection of water quality and human health, including aerial deposition of pollutants in the Duwamish River watershed and associated food chains; Commencement Bay in the Tacoma area; and the waters of South Sound, especially Budd Inlet. Limited funds are also available for projects focused on the eastern shore of Puget Sound, from Mt. Vernon to the Canadian border, including the eastern part of the Salish Sea.
Examples of projects eligible for funding include but are not limited to water-quality monitoring and testing; innovative low-impact development or green infrastructure projects intended to reduce stormwater pollution or other water-quality impacts; water quality-related policy development and associated public outreach; public education and environmental education (especially if the project also includes an element that mobilizes community members and/or students around specific actions to protect water quality); shoreline or riparian restoration and other hands-on stewardship activities; and public access in underserved and urbanized areas, which traditionally have had disproportionally less area dedicated to parks and open spaces.
Eligibility:
applicants must be tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, have a fiscal sponsor with such status, or be a governmental or tribal entity. If an applicant’s small neighborhood-based organization has a compelling project, the foundation may be willing to act as a fiscal sponsor for the proposal.
Deadline: 09/18/2020