Press launch shared by Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, August 27, 2024.
The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership (SGP) is happy to announce the opening of the 2024 Susquehanna Greenway Mini-Grant Program.
The Susquehanna Greenway Mini-Grant program goals to help the development of regional out of doors recreation, conservation, path initiatives and applications inside the Susquehanna Greenway. This consists of all 22 counties that the Susquehanna Greenway goes by means of: Bradford, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Indiana, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Susquehanna, Union, Wyoming, and York counties. Proposals for initiatives that happen outdoors of the Susquehanna Greenway won’t be thought of.
Eligible candidates embrace registered non-profit organizations in a position to apply for DCNR-supported funding and public entities (reminiscent of a county, municipality, or municipal company). Proposed actions should match inside one of many 4 eligible classes: 1) Outreach & Schooling, 2) Wayfinding & Signage, 3) Trails & Lively Transportation, and 4) Short-term Placemaking. Detailed descriptions of those classes can be found on the grant touchdown web page at susquehannagreenway.org/mini-grant-program.
Candidates might request as much as $10,000, and proposals should embrace a 1:1 match (money or in-kind). Whereas just one award can be given to every making use of entity, multiple utility may be submitted for consideration. All awarded funding have to be utilized inside 12 months from the date of the awarded contract; the anticipated contract interval is January – December 2025.
The Susquehanna Greenway Mini-Grant Program is financed by a grant from the Neighborhood Conservation Partnership Program, below the administration of the Pennsylvania Division of Conservation & Pure Sources (DCNR), Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. As such, mini-grants will not be used as match for different DCNR-funded initiatives, nor might DCNR funding be used to match this mini-grant. Awarded initiatives can be required to stick to all DCNR’s grant tips and eligible expense insurance policies, and all initiatives should acknowledge the SGP and DCNR on advertising and marketing supplies and media releases. Grant contracts will present extra particulars to grant awardees.
The applying window will shut at 4:59 PM on October 25, 2024. Eligible candidates can apply on-line at susquehannagreenway.org/mini-grant-program.
In case you are unable to submit your utility on-line, please submit purposes by e-mail to [email protected] or mail to:
Susquehanna Greenway Partnership
Attn: Grant Committee,
301 Market Road, Unit #649,
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Awarded initiatives can anticipate to be notified in December 2024. Questions could also be directed to [email protected] or 570-478-0178.
The Susquehanna Greenway is a linked hall of paddling, strolling, and biking trails, boat launches, conserved lands, and communities that runs alongside the Susquehanna River in PA. The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership (SGP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit devoted to advancing the imaginative and prescient of the Susquehanna Greenway. SGP works with companions to develop the community, encourage folks to interact with the outside, and rework communities into locations the place folks need to reside, work, and discover.
Press Contact:
Susquehanna Greenway Partnership
Leslie Warriner, Government Director
Telephone: 570-478-0178
E-mail: [email protected]
