Deadline: 9-Sep-22
The New Hampshire State Conservation Committee’s (SCC) Conservation Grant Program is now open to support and promote programs and partnerships that protect, restore and enhance the state’s valuable natural resources.
Competitive grants are awarded annually to physical and tangible environmental projects that foster stewardship and the sustainability of New Hampshire's natural environment.
Focus Areas
The Conservation Grant Program's six focus areas include:
- Water Quality and Quantity: Restore, enhance, maintain or protect.
- Wildlife Habitat: Create, restore, enhance, manage or protect.
- Soil Conservation and Flooding: Reduce or prevent erosion or improve soils.
- Best Management Practices: Plan and implement for agriculture, storm or forestry.
- Conservation Planning: Accomplish a conservation project or outcome that includes a public involvement component.
- Land Conservation: Permanent land protection through conservation easement or fee acquisition and/or associated transaction and stewardship costs.
Funding Information
The total SCC grant request cannot exceed $30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Grant Applicants include:
- County Conservation Districts
- County Cooperative Extension Natural Resources
- Municipalities, including agencies and commissions engaged in conservation programs
- Qualified nonprofit organizations engaged in conservation programs
- Public and private schools (kindergarten through Grade 12)
- Scout groups
For more information, visit SCC.
For more information, visit https://www.agriculture.nh.gov/divisions/scc/grant-program.htm
