Investment and Innovation grants support efforts to reduce waste through reusing, repairing, recycling, composting or preventing food waste in greater Portland.
Donor Name: Metro
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/15/2022
Grant Size: $50,000 and $500,000
Details:
The main goal of the program is to strengthen local efforts to reduce waste, make better use of the waste that is produced and help foster economic opportunities for people who have been left out of the benefits of the garbage and recycling system, particularly communities of color.
The program:
- Offers grants to for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations, and colleges and universities involved in reducing, reusing, recycling or composting materials that may otherwise be discarded as waste.
- Focuses on strengthening the reuse, repair, composting and recycling systems in greater Portland, as well as reducing environmental and health impacts in the local manufacturing and use of products.
- Helps achieve the goals of the 2030 Regional Waste Plan, the blueprint for improving the garbage and recycling system in greater Portland.
- Advances Metro’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by investing in projects that benefit communities and workers in the garbage and recycling system, and increases access to services for underserved residents.
- Awards grants through a competitive solicitation process and recommendations by review committees.
Funding Information
Program grants between $10,000 and $100,000 can be used to support personnel costs, materials and supplies, and equipment. Capital grants between $50,000 and $500,000 can be used to support larger infrastructure improvements and equipment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be one of the following:
- Be in compliance with local, state, and federal requirements applicable to its operations.
- Demonstrate a clear commitment to integrating diversity, equity and inclusion principles into its grant project and/or internal structures and operations.
- If applicable, secure all relevant permitting, licensing, approvals, waivers and other authorizations for the grant-funded project at the time of full proposal submission, or have these processes substantially completed with a plan for completion included in the proposal.
- For-profit business and college/university applicants, demonstrate that it has matching funds to share in the cost of the project.
For more information, visit Metro.