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East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District
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2025 Partners in Conservation (PIC)

CLOSED Deadline 12/18/2024

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Partners in Conservation Grant Program [hide this]

The East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (EMSWCD) has established the Partners in Conservation (PIC) Grant Program to advance its mission of helping people care for soil and water by providing financial support to other organizations in the EMSWCD service area. We specifically encourage projects led by, serve, or engage low-income communities and communities of color. In all cases, projects must show a clear public benefit and meet the Grant Program Goals:

Complement other EMSWCD program efforts in water quality, soil health, fish and wildlife habitat and sustainable agriculture.
Increase conservation benefits for communities and populations experiencing disparities in environmental health, environmental education, and natural amenities.
Build resilience to climate change in local communities, mitigate climate change impacts; build momentum for climate change action.
Establish school and community gardens and support sustainable and culturally appropriate agriculture practices.
Prepare residents for careers or education in natural resources, agriculture, nature education, or other nature-related fields by supporting mentorship, youth programs, and job skill development.

Funding level: a minimum grant award is $5,000 up to a maximum of $70,000.
Project timeframe: from short-term projects up to a maximum duration of two years.

Please refer to the PIC 2025 Handbook for further details, available for download in the Library Tab. Do you have questions about ZoomGrants? Use the Help button at the top of the page. For more information, please visit ZoomGrants University or contact the Help Desk at Questions@ZoomGrants.com. To ensure that you are receiving emails about your grant, please add to your “safe senders list” the email address Notices@zoomgrants.com.

If you have questions about your grant application or program, please contact Heather Nelson Kent, Grants Program Manager at heather@emswcd.org or 503-935-5370. For more information on EMSWCD Grants Program please visit the EMSWCD website.

Eligibility and Funding Criteria [hide this]

Eligible applicants for the PIC program:

Community-based organizations with nonprofit status; 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations.
Community groups without nonprofit status may apply for an EMSWCD grant with a fiscal sponsor. A fiscal sponsor is an eligible nonprofit organization that provides organizational infrastructure, insurance coverage and administrative support for managing a grant. If a group has neither federal tax exemption nor a fiscal sponsor, please contact us before applying.
Government agencies or educational institutions.
Native American tribes.

Projects must meet these criteria to receive PIC funding:

Must be located within EMSWCD’s service area (Multnomah County lying east of the Willamette River centerline) or demonstrate direct benefit to EMSWCD residents. Click here for more information about the district and a map showing our district boundary.
Grantees (and/or their fiscal sponsors) are required to carry insurance coverage and are responsible for the proper use, accounting, and reporting of grant funds. EMSWCD reports grant distributions to the IRS.
Must advance the mission of the EMSWCD “To Help People Care for Land and Water.”
Must address one or more of the Grant Program Goals (PIC 2025 Handbook p. 5).

Eligible project types:

On-the-ground restoration or conservation project. Examples: stream bank revegetation, fish and wildlife habitat restoration and/or enhancement, weed control.
Sustainable agriculture or gardening project. Examples: establishing or maintaining school or community gardens and/or orchards, native gathering gardens, composting systems, irrigation systems, and farm intern programs.
Water quality project. Examples: parking lot bioswale, rain garden, tree planting, stream restoration and trash clean up.
Hands-on learning about healthy soil and water, wildlife, and climate change for youth and/or adults. Examples: nature education, farm and garden education, workshops or classroom programs, training, and signage.
Expanding equitable access to nature education, conservation, and sustainable ag/garden projects and programs. Examples: development of projects or programs designed for communities of color and/or other historically marginalized people, retaining and restoring cultural and community traditions related to land and water, partnership development, staff and board equity and inclusion (DEI) training.
Environmental health projects in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other underserved and/or environmentally impacted communities; low-income communities. Examples: increase access to sustainably grown and culturally relevant food and plants, toxics/pesticide reduction, tree planting and pavement removal to reduce temperatures in developed areas.
Design or engineering of a conservation project. Examples: engineering of a soil erosion control project, stream/fish passage restoration, and in-stream habitat improvements.
Monitoring project. Examples: tree canopy assessment, evaluation of weed treatment or sediment control methods, and water quality monitoring.

Restrictions [hide this]

The PIC Grant Program does not fund the following project types:

Private businesses and landowners (funding and technical assistance from the EMSWCD may be available under other EMSWCD programs).
Rainwater harvesting systems or cisterns unless those components are incidental and subordinate to a larger project.
Buildings and capital projects unless these components are incidental and subordinate to a larger project.
Capital campaigns.
Political campaigns (EMSWCD is statutorily prohibited from supporting such activity).
Required mitigation projects.

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By entering your initials here you certify this submission truthfully and accurately represents your application and is hereby submitted for review. Submission of this application does not, in any way, guarantee that your application will yield a favorable result. Submission of this application also indicates your agreement to the terms of using ZoomGrants™. By entering your initials here, you certify that, to the best of your knowledge, the information contained in this Application is true, that the proposed project is not required by a state or federal agency directive, and that the project will be completed within 24 months from the date of EMSWCD’s approval of funding (unless a longer timeline is agreed upon in advance by all parties). Your initials also indicate that you understand that this submitted Application is a matter of public record and that EMSWCD’s consideration of this Application may not result in an award of funding. Should funding be awarded, you understand that: 1) until all designated signatories have signed an EMSWCD project funding agreement, you may not incur any project expenses for EMSWCD reimbursement or to satisfy the required match; 2) you will be required to provide proper accounting of project expenses, and 3) you will be required to carry out the necessary and normal maintenance to sustain the value of the project once it is completed. You understand that income received from EMSWCD may be reportable to the IRS. Your initials also certify that the landowner(s) of the project site(s) have no plans to sell their property as of the date of this application, and they agree to provide, upon prior request and at a mutually acceptable time, site access to the applicant and/or representatives of EMSWCD for a period of up to two years following project completion to allow project work to be implemented, monitored, and maintained.	Some fields are still empty... Initials
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Name of Project
Amount Requested $5,000 - $70,000 for up to 2 years of funding	$
Total Project Cost Requested amount plus total cash and in-kind match	$

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Item Description	Cash Match Secured	Cash Match Pending	In-kind Match Source	EMSWCD
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Project Revenues
A 1:1 cash and/or in-kind match is required for projects over $10,000 (for every dollar of EMSWCD funding at least one dollar in matching funds must be secured). The 1:1 cash match is NOT required for grant requests of less than $30,000 from applicant organizations that meet any one of the following criteria: (a) the organization has been in operation for less than three years, (b) the organization has not received a PIC grant before, or (c) the organization's annual operating budget is less than $250,000. Cash Match Secured: Cash your organization has already received specifically for this project; can include salaries budgeted to be paid by your organization for time an employee is working on this specific project, or awarded grant funds. Cash Match Pending: Cash that has been applied for by your organization specifically for this project, such as grant funds from other sources or anticipated membership/event revenues. In-kind Match Source: A non-cash input that can be given cash value such as volunteer labor, donations of supplies, consultant donated services.
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Volunteer labor/donated services (in-kind)	$	$	$	$
Donated supplies and equipment (in-kind)	$	$	$	$
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Project Expenses
Project Management/Staff (payroll): Salaries, wages and benefits that are directly applicable to the proposed project (do not add overhead to this rate beyond direct benefits). Contracted Services: Professional services, work crews, equipment operators, etc. Travel: Project related travel costs (number of expected miles @$.625 mile - current federal reimbursement rate). You may also include other transportation costs such as bus or vehicle rental. Materials, Supplies and Equipment: Including but not limited to plants, logs, fencing, office supplies, postage, communications, marketing/promotion, and purchase, rental or use of durable equipment such as tools, machinery and outdoor personal/educational gear. All must be directly associated with the project. Volunteer labor: includes unpaid and donated/volunteer services at the current Independent Sector rate ($29.95/hour). Pre-implementation: Design, permits, inspection, etc. Administration/Overhead: Requests for administrative/overhead costs must be reasonable and justifiable, and in no case may exceed 15% of EMSWCD funded direct project costs. This may cover expenses such as utilities, rent, telephone, and fiscal administration. Other expenses: Items that do not fall into any of the other expense categories - please list them in the uploaded Excel sheet.
Item Description	Cash Match Expenses	In-kind Match Expenses	EMSWCD Request
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Contracted Services	$	$	$
Travel ($.625/mile) or other transportation	$	$	$
Materials, Supplies and Equipment	$	$	$
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Budget Narrative (Discuss the items and amounts you entered above.)
Briefly describe the revenues (secured and unsecured) and expenses in the budget, and specify the sources of your matching funds. Let us know where else you have submitted or are planning to submit a funding application for the same project.
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