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Great Lakes Protection Fund is sponsored by Great Lakes Protection Fund. 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.
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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
Key questions and narrative sections extracted from the solicitation.
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.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, individuals, and for-profit businesses focused on Great Lakes ecosystem innovation are eligible. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $4 million total investment for 2026. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The most recent published deadline was March 18, 2026, which has passed. This is an annual program, so a new cycle should follow. Check the funder's website for the next application window.
Great Lakes Protection Fund is funded by Great Lakes Protection Fund. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
The solicitation lists 4 required documents: Applicant cover sheet (required form from GLPF website), 2-3 page narrative (no more than 1,500 words, 11-point font) including project budget, Team Lead's resume/CV, and All submitted as a single PDF. Check the official notice for formatting and page-limit rules.
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