Canaan Valley Institute's Stakeholder Services and Assessment Division provides technical assistance and educational programs that help communities and organizations identify, develop, and implement sustainable solutions to serious water issues that affect their daily lives.

Specific organizational assistance and support may include:

• Group facilitation and decision-making assistance
• Community outreach, public support, and involvement strategies
• Inter-agency collaborative problem solving and partnership building
• Project planning and development of implementation strategies
• Monetary assistance through CVI's Small Grants program

Canaan Valley Institute seeks to support local stakeholder organizations committed to restoring and protecting the natural resources of their watersheds. Therefore applications must address water quality or quantity issues or aquatic habitat.  CVI encourages groups to submit projects that can show quantifiable/measurable outcomes. Priority will be given to projects that address rural wastewater treatment and stream restoration.

Geographic Focus - Mid-Atlantic Highlands (Charlottesville to the West Va. Border)

The Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection website is a searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans, cost-sharing) available to fund a variety of watershed protection projects. To select funding programs for particular requirements, use either of two searches below. One is based on subject matter criteria, and the other is based on words in the title of the funding program.

Criteria searches include the type of organization (e.g., non-profit groups, private landowner, state, business), type of assistance sought (grants or loans), and keywords (e.g., agriculture, wildlife habitat).

Searches reslut in a listing of programs by name.  Click on each program name to review detailed information on the funding source.

Geographic Focus - Nationwide

CyberAlert, Inc.
Foot of Broad Street
Stratford, CT 06615

Ranging in value from $2,700 to $3,900 for each grant and consisting of one full year of free news monitoring / press clipping services, the value of the grants is expected to total in excess of $35,000 in the coming year.

In 2006, over 450 not-for-profit organizations applied to the CyberAlert PR Grants program. The CyberAlert selection process favors national and international organizations with innovative services that benefit the young, the poor, the abused, minorities, the environment, scientific research, and human rights.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
1120 Connecticut Avenue
N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036

Contact: Amanda Bassow - amanda.bassow@nfwf.org or
              Brian Kittler - brian.kittler@nfwf.org

The Royal Bank of Canada is offering a series of grants to applicants who have water quality activities in the United States and other counties.  There are two types of grant applications available to the public.

Leadership Grants: Ranging from $25,000 to $500,000, these grants focus on watershed protection and/or access to safe drinking water and are available to local, regional, national or trans-border organizations for projects in any of the countries in which RBC is located, including Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and the UK.

Community Action Grants: Ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, these grants are focused on watershed protection and are available to local or community organizations in Canada, United States or the Caribbean.

Geographic Focus - Nationwide

Deadlines - Leadership Grants are due June 30 and March 1 annually.
                   Community Action Grants are accepted year round.

Grant Award Amounts - Leadership Grants $25,000 to $500,000
                                     Community Action Grants $1,000 to $5,000

Street address is:

Three James Center
1051 East Cary Street, Suite 1400
Richmond, VA 23219

Virginia Program: The Virginia Program supports community action, reinforced and informed by research and education.  The program focuses on water quality research and monitoring of water quality conditions; land and open space conservation; Chesapeake Bay fisheries conservation, research, and education; and environmental education.

Virginia Mini-Grant Program: The Virginia Mini-Grant Program has enabled thousands of citizens to become actively involved in solving environmental problems in their own hometowns.  With grants of $5,000 or less, schools have initiated environmental science courses and outdoor classroom projects, volunteers have monitored water quality in dozens of local streams and rivers, and communities have developed innovative strategies to ensure environmental quality is improved in their community.

Submission Requirements - Each proposal must include the following information:

1. A cover letter identifying the applicant, project title, grant request, matching funds, project schedule, and whether the proposal is being submitted to the Virginia Program or the Virginia Mini-Grant Program.
2. A project description, limited to five pages, clearly stating the need for the project, goals and objectives and how they will be achieved, and relevance to other work being done in the field.
3. A description of the organization, names and qualifications of key project staff, a list of the members of the governing board, the current operating budget, and a copy of the current tax-exempt ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, if applicable.
4. A line-item budget for the proposed project, showing total project costs, the amount and proposed allocation of grant funds requested from the Endowment, and all sources and amounts of matching funds, which must equal or exceed the requested grant.
5. The project schedule, with specific beginning and ending dates for requested grant support.
6. A detailed plan for evaluating and disseminating project results, for continuing project activities, and for raising future financial support, if applicable.

DEQ Virginia Office of Environmental Education
Attn: Jennifer Underwood
P.O. Box 1105
Richmond, VA 23218-1105