Deadline: 14-Oct-21
Applications are now invited for the PIG Difference grant program, that was established by New Pig to help customers and friends restore, conserve and protect America’s most important habitats: streams, rivers, ponds, swamps and wetlands.
New Pig identifies worthy new and ongoing projects in this field, and provides funding in the form of cash and in-kind donations of New Pig products. They look for innovative groups in local communities working to make their corner of the world more sustainable.
Funding Priorities
- Projects they fund:
- Projects that improve sustainability of waterways, watersheds, estuaries, tidal pools or wetlands, or the wildlife that are directly affected by them. Most anything that improves sustainability of a body of water will be considered. Must be hands-on projects in local communities.
- Combinations of cash and in-kind donations of New Pig products are preferred. They will, however, consider grants for one or the other.
- They will consider both new projects or continuing projects.
- Projects they do not fund:
- Advocacy groups or media projects.
- Political causes, candidates, organizations or campaigns.
- Individuals (solely for the benefit of one person on family).
- Endowments or general operating funds.
- Conferences, workshops, temporary exhibits, travel, surveys, films or publishing activities.
- Fundraising dinners or events.
Funding Information
- Generally they entertain grant applications of less than $5,000, but they will entertain larger grant requests where appropriate on a per-case basis.
- They award approximately $25,000 annually to deserving projects. Cash grants would total approximately $4,000 – $7,000 per funding round; 3x per year. The remainder would be PIG product donations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Groups and organizations of any type may apply, whether they are non-profits, businesses, or loosely-organized groups.
- Cash Grants may be made to organizations recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The organization must have an EIN and be one of the following types of entities to receive a cash grant:
- 501(c)3
- Government tax-exempt
- C-Corp or S-Corp
- LLC
- Partnership
- In-Kind Grants of New Pig products may be made to organizations of any kind.
- Direct Payment to Vendors for materials or services will be considered for groups that do not meet cash grant guidelines.
- Organizations must be based in the United States.
- Applicants do not have to be a New Pig customer to be eligible.
- Applicants must be 18 or older.
- Applications must be completed in full and submitted online to be considered.
- Prior winners may continue to submit proposals without a waiting period.
For more information, visit https://www.pigdifference.org/programdetails