{"id":45100,"date":"2025-07-16T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=45100"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:06:18","slug":"maryland-opens-grants-gateway-to-solicit-proposals-to-help-fund-programs-and-projects-focused-on-watershed-restoration-climate-resilience-boating-access-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/07\/16\/maryland-opens-grants-gateway-to-solicit-proposals-to-help-fund-programs-and-projects-focused-on-watershed-restoration-climate-resilience-boating-access-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Opens Grants Gateway to Solicit Proposals to Help Fund Programs and Projects Focused on Watershed Restoration, Climate Resilience, Boating Access, and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland DNR now accepting grant applications for Fiscal Year 2027<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54659422323_0a17bb9b7b.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a retention lake\" width=\"368\" height=\"207\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funds provided through DNR&#8217;s Grants Gateway portal helped restore Lake Marion in Anne Arundel County, which now drains more than 113 acres of impervious surface in the Severn River watershed among other benefits. Maryland DNR photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/grantsgateway.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grants Gateway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> application is open for local governments and organizations for Fiscal Year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through this process, DNR connects Maryland communities with funding for projects and programs that improve water quality in local waterways, increase communities\u2019 resilience to storms and climate change, strengthen local economies, develop environmental stewards, and benefit the general boating public.<\/span><!--more--><\/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\"><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, and one loan program to make it easier for applicants to apply for funding to support their environmentally-beneficial projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently completed projects funded through Grants Gateway include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restoring 2,300 linear feet of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/bec7dc2bc6ce4398b5f621c9a72d6b77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Piney Run in Baltimore County<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which included the planting of 5.6 acres of riparian buffer. This project, managed by the Land Preservation Trust, corrected significant alterations to the stream since the 1960s that had disrupted its natural flow. Located in a Maryland trout watershed, has revitalized habitat for fish and amphibians and stabilized the stream banks against erosion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restoring Lake Marion in the Severn River watershed, which provides a 341.6-acre drainage area creating new habitat, safely carrying storm flows into the lake and stream system and treating the storm water runoff.\u00a0 The project, led by Arundel Rivers Federation, retrofits the existing stormwater management pond and helps Anne Arundel County meet its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) pollutant removal requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Chesapeake Bay Program, and the Shore Erosion Loan Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The applications are listed by outcomes as described on the Grants Gateway page. Applicants should be aware that state and federal funding limitations have impacted some outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A virtual webinar overviewing each outcome and their program details will be held on August 21 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Applicants are encouraged to attend, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastaltraining-md.org\/event-6248999\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">registration and more details are online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. More information on all grant programs can be found on DNR&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/grantsgateway.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grants Gateway page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland DNR now accepting grant applications for Fiscal Year 2027 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 Grants Gateway application is open for local governments and organizations for Fiscal Year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026.\u00a0 Through this process, DNR connects Maryland communities with funding for projects and programs that improve water quality in local waterways,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/07\/16\/maryland-opens-grants-gateway-to-solicit-proposals-to-help-fund-programs-and-projects-focused-on-watershed-restoration-climate-resilience-boating-access-and-education\/\">&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],"tags":[4509,3404,5127,4968,5503],"class_list":["post-45100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","tag-climate-resilience-grants","tag-environmental-education","tag-grants-gateway","tag-riparian-buffer","tag-stream-restoration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100","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=45100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45127,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100\/revisions\/45127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}