Deadline: 18-Mar-25
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund invites applications for the Grow Grant program geared towards groups who have some experience implementing a project in their community.
Funding Information
- Grant size: $1,000 – $4,000. They highly recommend groups seek the full $4,000, if they can use it. Partial funding is possible.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Grow grant program is focused on community-based, local initiatives. For the Grassroots Fund that means that:
- groups doing local, grassroots work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont.
- Note that groups do NOT need to have formal tax status or a fiscal sponsor. A group only needs a bank account in the group’s name.
- They prioritize:
- groups that are volunteer-driven or have no more than 2 full-time paid staff (80 hrs/week)
- groups that have an approximate annual operating budget under $100,000
Ineligible
- They don’t fund:
- Individuals
- National or international work
- Lobbying or partisan political activity
- Acquisition of land and/or buildings
- Studies with no follow-up action
- Publication of books or reports
- Micro-, mini-, re-granting programs
- Retroactive (pre-dating application submission) expenses
For more information, visit New England Grassroots Environment Fund.