Community in Conservation

Connecting the Festival to Grants for Community Groups

The Application Process

We have created what we hope is a simple and streamlined application process; one that respects your organizations’ time and resources and reflects the fact that these are small grant awards (max. $5,000). Our expectation is that this will be an annual award program, contingent on success of the Festival each year.

WHAT WE FUND: 

With this focus on connecting our financial resources to local environmental needs we now support projects in these four WF priority areas:

1. Initiatives at the intersections of waterfowl conservation and community
2. Education programs on Delmarva focusing on current and future generations of conservationists, enthusiasts and educators
3. Research and scientific work of graduate students, volunteer groups
   and non-profits on Delmarva
4. Restoration and conservation of projects that benefit waterfowl and
   regional habitat enhancement in ways that connect with larger bay habitat
   restoration goals

WHO CAN APPLY: 

Applicants may be non-profits, community associations or other entities interested in advancing waterfowl and waterfowl habitat conservation, education or research. The committee reserves the right to also grant funds to projects that can enhance and improve local watershed goals.

MAXIMUM AWARD: 

$5,000

DEADLINE: 

2025 Deadline July 1, 2025.

TO APPLY: 

Submit your Letter of Inquiry using the form below (max. 1500 words).

TIMELINE: 

WF reviews the letters received and expects to notify the applicants for this initial phase of their status by early September. Applicants selected to advance to the next phase may be asked to provide further information related to their project or initiative by mid-September.