Deadline: 16-Aug-21
Applications are now open for the Columbia River Fund to support community-based water quality stewardship projects along the Columbia River.
The Columbia River is the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest and has the greatest flow of any North American river draining into the Pacific. The Columbia River watershed extends from the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean near Astoria, Oregon.
Historically, the Columbia River supported one of the greatest salmon and steelhead runs on Earth, and through 1840, up to16 million salmon and steelhead returned to the Columbia River to spawn each year.
Funding Information
- In this grant opportunity through the Columbia River Fund, grant awards will be in the $10,000 – $40,000 range.
- If your organization has an annual budget of $100,000 or less, they encourage you to apply for a grant of $10,000 or less.
Eligibility Criteria
The Columbia River Fund supports projects designed to improve, protect, and benefit clean water and aquatic habitat in the Columbia River Basin. To be eligible for a grant, the projects must be benefit:
- the main stem of the Columbia River from Richland downstream to its mouth at Astoria; and in
- the reaches upstream from Richland in the general vicinity of Malaga in Chelan County, and tributaries north of Wentachee including the Wentachee River, Entiat River, the Chelan River, the Methow River, and the Okanogan River.
For more information, visit https://rosefdn.org/columbia-river-fund