There are many programs and opportunities listed below, ranging from $10,000 to $5 million, that can help fund green infrastructure projects. Sorting by project type, funding type or eligible activities will narrow your search and make it easier to see and digest what’s available.
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Project Type: Construction
Funding Type: State
Funding Amount: Stewardship awards will be in the form of a 50% matching grant or, for projects in Urban Aid municipalities, 75% matching grants. Matching funds cannot be from other Green Acres funds or donated goods and services (in-kind). Assistance to nonprofits available as 50% matching grants In June 2017, $1.3M to 13 stewardship projects. Jersey City was recommended for $82,672 for parks stewardship.
Eligible Applicant and Activities
Eligible applicants include: Local government and nonprofits.
Eligible activities include: Stewardship is defined as an activity, which is beyond routine operations and maintenance, undertaken to repair or restore lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes for the purpose of enhancing or protecting those lands for recreation and conservation purposes:
• Landscape restoration, including historic landscapes
• Invasive species removal/control
• Wildlife habitat restoration/enhancement
• Freshwater/tidal wetlands restoration/enhancement
• Dam removal as an element of a river/waterway restoration project
• Forest/woodland restoration/enhancement
• Stream corridor restoration/enhancement
• Rain garden;
• Shoreline restoration/enhancement
• Trails, boardwalks, bird blinds, lighting, and interpretive signage
• Facilities that provide or enhance public environmental education.
Funding Cycle and Application Deadlines
Latest round of applications was posted in January 2017 with February 2017 deadline.
Website:
http://www.nj.gov/dep/greenacres/local.html
Contact: Cathy Elliott-Shaw
Email: Cathy.Elliott-Shaw@dep.nj.gov
Phone: (609) 984-0500
Address: Green Acres Program
Project Type: Construction
Funding Type: State Incentive
Funding Amount: Rebates will be provided to homeowners to offset the cost to install a rain garden on their property. Rebates will be in the amount of $3 per square foot of garden up to $450 per lot.
Eligible Applicant and Activities
Eligible applicants include: Residents of Somerville, Bridgewater, Hillsborough, and Raritan Borough.
Eligible activities include: Implementation of community rain gardens.
Funding Cycle and Application Deadlines
To qualify for a rebate, you must: attend one community workshop; attend a technical workshop where you can meet with a Rutgers design professional to plan and lay out your garden or design a rain garden on your own and have it approved by the RCE Water Resources Program; and then install your rain garden.
Website:
https://www.raritanbasin.org/rain-garden-rebate
Email: watershed@raritanbasin.org
Phone: 908-730-0270
Address: 1851 State Highway 31
P.O. Box 5196
Clinton, NJ 08809
Project Type: Construction
Funding Type: Private
Funding Amount: Grants up to $10,000
Eligible Applicant and Activities
Eligible applicants include: New Jersey American Water's service area
Eligible activities include: To support diverse types of environmental sustainability activities such as watershed cleanups, reforestation efforts, rain garden projects, streamside buffer restoration projects and hazardous waste collection efforts.
Funding Cycle and Application Deadlines
Last application deadline was March 26, 2018.
Website:
https://amwater.com/njaw/news-community/environmental-grant-program
Address: New Jersey American Water
P.O. Box 102
Bound Brook, NJ 08805