A new program provides grant money to support open space, environmental, and resiliency projects across Delmarva Power’s service areas.
The Sustainable Communities Grant Program is funded by Delmarva Power and administered by the Delaware Nature Society. It’s already launched its first application period and will fund up to $75,000 in projects each year.
Delmarva Power’s region president Gary Stockbridge says there are several pieces to the grant, “The first category is about $50,000 that’s going to be - I would call them smaller grants - $1,000 to $10,000 in size that will go out to municipalities and non profits. And that will be focused on open space preservation, and improvements to parks and recreation - stuff like that.”
Stockbridge explains how the rest will be allocated, “And then $25,000 of it is going to be broken - into hopefully two grants - they’ll be more around resiliency projects. And we’re looking for some innovation that are relative to how folks kind of come to the table and come up with ideas around resiliency.”
Stockbridge says grant requests are being accepted through January 31, 2020 and Delmarva Power and the Delaware Nature Society will award the grants in March.
If you'rre interested, you can submit a grant request here.
