Deadline: 3/19/2019

Amount: Planning: $8,000 max; Implementation: $35,000 max

Website: https://www.musserfund.org/index.asp?page_seq=11

Description:

The purpose of the program is to assist public or not-for-profit entities to initiate or implement projects that enhance the ecological integrity of publicly owned open spaces, while encouraging compatible human activities. The Fund’s goal is to promote public use of open space that improves a community’s quality of life and public health, while also ensuring the protection of healthy, viable and sustainable ecosystems by protecting or restoring habitat for a diversity of plant and animal species.

Planning Grant Requests: Planning grant applications must demonstrate commitment to a broad-based, active community process for the design and use of local publicly-owned open spaces.

Implementation Grant Requests: implementation grant applications must demonstrate clear evidence of local community active participation and support.