The Columbia Basin Trust is inviting applications for its Small Environment Grants to fund community-initiated and community-supported projects in the areas of ecosystems, water and environmental education.
Project Categories
The Trust welcomes project ideas in each of the project categories that address climate resilience.
- Ecosystems Projects:
- Enhance or conserve ecosystems and/or species of conservation concern.
- Reduce the threat of significant invasive species to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
- Ecosystem related research projects that contribute to ecosystem conservation and/or enhancement.
- Water Projects:
- Support the protection, enhancement or restoration of water resources that are important for species and/or ecosystems of conservation concern.
- Carry out water quality and/or quantity research that is scientifically sound and will contribute knowledge to the management of water resources for the benefit of ecosystems, communities and watershed stakeholders.
- Environmental Education Projects:
- Provide education to Basin residents that helps develop an understanding and appreciation of the natural world and motivates ecologically informed decisions and actions.
Funding Information
- If the project requires $5,000 or less, applicants can apply for a small Environment Grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include registered non-profits, First Nations communities and local governments from the Columbia Basin Trust region.
- Businesses may be considered depending on the project and its broad community impact. Business applicants must demonstrate partnerships with community-based organizations in the design and delivery of their proposed project.
- The project should demonstrate that it will benefit the Basin and that the primary beneficiary is not the applicant or solely the members of a membership-based organization.
- Applicants operating outside the Basin must partner with community-based organizations in the Basin to be eligible.
For more information, visit Environment Grants.
