The Community Foundation for Greater New Heaven is seeking applications for its Quinnipiac River Fund to improve the environmental quality of the Quinnipiac River and New Haven Harbor and their watersheds.
Donor Name: The Community Foundation for Greater New Heaven
State: Connecticut
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/22/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The committee considers projects for grant funding that work toward this goal. Examples include:
- Studying the pollution of the waterbodies
- Studying the ecology of the waterbodies.
- Researching methods of reducing pollution, or otherwise improving the environmental health of the waterbodies.
- Addressing means of reducing both non-point and point sources of pollution to the waterbodies.
- Researching the permitting process, researching particular permits, and making recommendations as to findings.
- Providing public education about the waterbodies.
- Purchasing land in the watersheds for conservation, pollution reduction, and/or improving public access.
- Environmental advocacy (note: funding cannot be used for litigation).
- Habitat restoration.
- Removing tree limbs and other debris that block the passage on the river of canoes and kayaks.
Eligibility Criteria
While each grant process has its own criteria, all applicants must be defined as tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue code. While grants are occasionally made to governmental agencies, local nonprofits receive priority. Requests will be considered from groups that do not have tax-exemption status, provided that they have a fiscal agent with the appropriate tax status. In projects involving a partnership of agencies, a single agency with the appropriate tax status and financial management capacity must assume the role of lead organization.
Individuals are not eligible for grants except for participants in the New Haven Neighborhood Leadership Program and applicants to academic scholarships.
You must provide services within their 20 town area:
Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, North Branford, North Haven, West Haven, Oxford, New Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, Orange, Woodbridge.
For more information, visit CFNGH.