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Visit funder's website →Great Lakes Protection Fund is a grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund that invests in ambitious, transformational ideas to protect and restore the Great Lakes ecosystem. Operating as an impact investor, the fund seeks projects that launch and accelerate systemic change, with recent investments spanning agroforestry for water quality improvement, digital tools for water resource managers, and grass-fed dairy standards.
A total of $4 million is available for 2026. Eligible applicants include organizations pursuing high-impact, innovative approaches to freshwater ecosystem protection. The March 18, 2026 deadline has passed; check for future cycles.
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Great Lakes Protection Fund The Great Lakes Protection Fund is an impact investor. We work with passionate people to create innovative solutions for the Great Lakes ecosystem. We launch and accelerate big ideas that protect the Great Lakes.
We’re looking for big ideas. Ambitious ideas. Ideas others won’t take a chance on.
Let’s do something transformational! Identify, demonstrate and promote regional action to enhance the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Here’s what we’ve been doing recently.
Video Guide for Our 2026 RFP It Must be the Water: Agroforestry’s Key to Success Seeking Ambitious Ideas Through a Request for Preproposals Empowering Water Managers with Digital Tools Building the Foundation for a Grass-fed Dairy Standard for Managed Grazing Building Agroforestry to Improve Great Lakes Water Quality
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Ecosystem Impact: What you hope to achieve. Discuss what could change as a result of this work and identify specifically how the Great Lakes will be improved, both short and long term. Be specific about ecosystem impact and discuss its importance.
Your Strategy: How you plan to do the work. Summarize your theory of change, the behaviors you seek, and how your work unlocks those behaviors. Sketch the path from launch to basin-wide impact. Describe who will use the strategies, their value, and their role in designing the innovation. Outline work with project timeline.
Your Team: Who will be involved. Identify team members, their roles, responsibilities, and qualifications. Reflect meaningful collaboration among all interests affected by the project, especially non-expert audiences.
Resources: What you will require to do the work. Present estimated costs in summary categories (personnel, equipment/supplies, travel, consultants, overhead at max 15%). Identify support requested from Fund and how other monies will be raised.
Scoring criteria used to review proposals for this grant.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, individuals, and for-profit businesses focused on Great Lakes ecosystem innovation are eligible. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates $4 million total investment for 2026 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is March 18, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to compete for financial assistance through the Targeted Airshed Grant Program. This program will assist local, state, and/or tribal air pollution control agencies to conduct emission reduction activities to reduce air pollution in nonattainment areas that EPA determines are the top five most polluted areas relative to the ozone (O3), annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5), or 24-hour PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). To learn more about eligible entities, see Section III.A. The overall goal of the Targeted Airshed Grant Program is to reduce air pollution in the nation’s areas with the highest levels of ozone and PM2.5 ambient air concentrations listed in the three tables directly below. Area information, including maps and lists of the counties within each nonattainment area, is available at EPA’s Green Book. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OAR-OAQPS-21-03. Assistance Listing: 66.956. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $8M per award.
EPA Region 8 (the Region) is soliciting applications that address the national and regional priority of decreasing the environmental impact of materials with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). This funding opportunity is designed to both decrease materials generated (source reduction) and increase the diversion of materials through reuse, recycling, and other strategies. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R8-2021-SMM. Assistance Listing: 66.808. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: $10K – $25K per award.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications to provide training and technical assistance to rural, small, and tribal municipalities, publicly owned wastewater treatment works, and decentralized wastewater treatment systems for the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution. Eligible activities include training and technical assistance only. Infrastructure construction projects such as repairing water or sewer lines, adding new equipment, or upgrading, retrofitting, or rehabilitating existing equipment are not eligible for funding under this announcement. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OW-OWM-22-02. Assistance Listing: 66.446. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $18M per award.