Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program - Environmental Outreach, Education, and Engagement Projects

Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program

The Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program will support community outreach and engagement, environmental action, and larger-scale restoration projects in the communities of the Patapsco and Back River Watershed and the Curtis Bay and surrounding area. The funding sources of this program originate from environmental enforcement cases from a civil settlement involving the Patapsco and Back River Wastewater Treatment Plants (which will support projects throughout these watersheds) and a criminal enforcement case involving Curtis Bay Energy, L.P. (which will support projects in the Curtis Bay and surrounding communities).

This is the first year of the program, and the Request for Proposals (RFP) will be updated and adapted in each subsequent funding round to be responsive to any feedback received and continue to be supportive of evolving community needs and goals.

Environmental Outreach, Education, and Engagement Projects

Outreach, education, and engagement projects are those that demonstrate an increase in public understanding of and engagement in the benefits, challenges, and solutions to restoring the local community’s natural resources and environmental health. Projects should seek to increase knowledge within a priority audience (a specific population of focus that is a clearly defined sub-segment of the public). Applicants should explain how the outreach messages will be created and how the priority audience will be reached.

Eligibility

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