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Now Available: Clean Water Program Grants!

This year's funding focuses on litter reduction projects.

The Clean Water Program of Alameda County is inviting applications for its 2014 Community Stewardship Grant Program, designed to encourage and facilitate community-based actions that enhance and protect the health of local waterways. Proposed projects must be aimed at storm water pollution prevention in Alameda County and contain a community or public outreach element. This year’s grant cycle focuses on litter reduction projects in particular. Funding requests between $1,000 and $5,000 per project will be considered, for a total grant budget of $20,000. Eligible applicants include teacher and student groups, youth organizations, homeowners associations, community groups, environmental groups and other non-profit organizations. Deadline for submissions is April 10, 2014.

To read the press release visit www.cleanwaterprogram.org/news.html

For more info, to download an application packet, view sample completed applications and for descriptions of projects funded in the past, visit www.cleanwaterprogram.org/grants.html.

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