Deadline: 7-Mar-22
The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) is seeking applications for its Volunteer Stream Monitoring Maintenance Grant Program. These grants are for groups who are already monitoring with MiCorps procedures.
Funding Information
Funds can pay for staff time, equipment, and travel to MiCorps trainings and conferences, are a maximum of $2,000, and last for eight months.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, entities must meet all of the following:
- Local units of government and not-for-profit entities are eligible to receive grant funding. Nonprofit entities are those exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eligible entities generally include county, city, township, and village agencies; watershed and environmental action councils; universities; regional planning agencies; and incorporated not-for-profit organizations.
- Must not have had a grant revoked or terminated or demonstrated an inability to manage a grant or meet the obligations in a project contract within the 24-month period immediately preceding the application.
- The applicant must have a MiCorps approved macroinvertebrate monitoring QAPP dated no later than two years prior to the application deadline (dated on or after March 7, 2020). To get QAPP approval, contact Dr. Steen. All QAPPs pending approval must be received by February 14, 2022, to allow time for review.
- If the applicant received a Maintenance Grant in 2021, they must have successfully closed out this grant on-time to be eligible in 2022.
- Supply proof of a successful financial audit of the applicant organization conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards for a period ending within the two years immediately preceding the RFP due date, as demonstrated by an Independent Auditor’s Report signed by a Certified Public Accountant from a Comprehensive Annual Report. Note: The audit date (on or after March 7, 2020) is based on the audit period and not the date of the audit or the audit letter.
- Entities that do not have an audit can partner with an eligible local unit of government or a nonprofit organization with a current audit that will serve as the primary applicant and fiduciary agent for the grant.
For more information, visit MiCorps.
For more information, visit https://micorps.net/stream-monitoring/stream-grants/