{"id":29568,"date":"2019-11-20T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=29568"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:19:12","slug":"grants-gateway-open-for-community-resiliency-and-environmental-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/11\/20\/grants-gateway-open-for-community-resiliency-and-environmental-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants Gateway Open for Community Resiliency and Environmental Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department Accepting Grant Applications from Governments, Nonprofits<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48122036137_3d2317fdf0.jpg\" alt=\"Aeriel photo of stream entering Chesapeake Bay at Franklin Point State Park\" width=\"399\" height=\"224\" \/>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> today announced that up to $30 million is available for local governments and organizations seeking to restore local waterways, increase their resilience to climate and storm impacts, strengthen local economies, and develop the next generation of environmental stewards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/grantsgateway.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grants Gateway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> provides a streamlined, single point of entry to several state and federal programs, maximizing the resources available to restore the Chesapeake Bay and help coastal communities. The system, now in its second year, enables communities better access to financial resources and a more intuitive reporting and management process.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMaryland citizens and communities recognize the importance of restoring and protecting our state\u2019s natural resources and reducing nutrient pollution in the bay,\u201d Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio said. \u201cThey want to do their part to help, and the department\u2019s Grants Gateway allows them to participate in a meaningful way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grants are made possible with funding through the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund, the Waterway Improvement Fund, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Chesapeake Bay Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information on all of our grant programs can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Documents\/GrantsGatewayFY21Solicitation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Accepting Grant Applications from Governments, Nonprofits The Maryland Department of Natural Resources today announced that up to $30 million is available for local governments and organizations seeking to restore local waterways, increase their resilience to climate and storm impacts, strengthen local economies, and develop the next generation of environmental stewards.\u00a0 The department\u2019s Grants Gateway<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/11\/20\/grants-gateway-open-for-community-resiliency-and-environmental-restoration\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[3092,2982,2960,5127,4035,2928,2981],"class_list":["post-29568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-and-atlantic-coastal-bays-trust-fund","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay-program","tag-grants-gateway","tag-jeannie-haddaway-riccio","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-waterway-improvement-fund"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29642,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions\/29642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}