Environmental Initiative - Implementation Grant Program

Environmental Initiative - Implementation Grant Program

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Laura Jane Musser Fund
Amount: Up to US $35,000
Last Updated: February 06, 2026

Summary

Overview

The Laura Jane Musser Fund was established by the estate of Laura Jane Musser of Little Falls, Minnesota to continue the personal philanthropy, which she practiced in her lifetime. Environmental Initiative Program The Laura Jane Musser Fund assists public or not-for-profit entities to initiate or implement projects that enhance the ecological integrity of publicly owned open spaces, while encouraging compatible human activities. The Fund’s goal is to promote public use of open space that improves a community’s quality of life and public health, while also ensuring the protection of healthy, viable and sustainable ecosystems by protecting or restoring habitat for a diversity of plant and animal species. Projects must.. Focus on protecting/restoring a sustainable ecosystem that is a defined, public open space.Promote public access to and use of the defined open space.Involve active participation of local community members, with a particular appreciation for volunteer and youth engagement and stakeholder contributions.Contain measurable outcomes within the first 12-18 months.Include a plan for the long term financial and environmental sustainability of the proposed program. Projects during any one grant period will be eligible for either: implementation grants or planning grants Environmental Initiative - Implementation Grant Program Implementation grant applications must demonstrate clear evidence of local community active participation and support. Projects will be eligible for either planning or implementation funds during any one grant period.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizationsLocal units of GovernmentOnly programs in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wyoming, and limited counties in North Carolina may apply.Eligible counties in North Carolina are located in the Mountains Region:Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

Ineligibility

Organizations with fiscal sponsors are not eligible.Building or repair of parking lots, driveways, or other facilities for auto use.Designing, constructing or repairing buildings located in public open spaces. Projects requesting funds for land acquisition costs.Advocacy