The American Water’s 2022 Environmental Grant Program is now open to offer assistance to community partners to help make a positive impact on the environment.
Donor Name: American Water
State: Kentucky
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/31/2022
Grants Size: $5,000
Details:
Environmental Grant Program offers funding for innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect the watersheds, surface water and groundwater supplies in their local communities.
Eligible Projects
- be completed between May 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022
- be a new or innovative program for the community, or serve as a significant expansion to an existing program
- be carried out by a formal or informal partnership between two or more organizations
- provide evidence of sustainability (continue existence after the American Water grant monies are utilized)
- be located within an American Water service area.
Funding Information
Maximum grant amount: $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for Environmental Grant funding, a proposed project must be:
- Located within Kentucky American Water’s 14-county service area (Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Grant, Harrison, Jackson, Jessamine, Nicholas, Owen, Rockcastle, Scott and Woodford counties)
- Address a source water or watershed protection need
- Completed between May and November of the grant funding year
- Establish a new or innovative program or a significant expansion to an existing program
- Be carried out by a formal or informal partnership of at least two organizations; and provide evidence of sustainability.
- Project activities and outcomes should address a watershed or source water protection need in the local community within American Water service areas.
- Source water protection projects are activities that result in the protection or improvement of the community’s public drinking water supplies.
- Watershed protection projects should focus on activities that improve, restore or protect one or more watersheds.
For more information, visit American Water.