{"id":21565,"date":"2021-01-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=21565"},"modified":"2020-12-28T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T14:58:23","slug":"60000-available-for-2021-22-nonpoint-source-pollution-prevention-educational-mini-grant-program-for-conservation-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=21565","title":{"rendered":"$60,000 Available for 2021-22 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Program for Conservation Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection continuing to support conservation district educational projects, PACD is ready to open a new round of Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grants!<\/p>\n<p>Grants up to $2,000 are awarded to conservation districts for adult educational projects that offer strategies for reducing and preventing NPS Pollution. Projects should stimulate a local awareness of water quality issues, promote the theme \u201cWe All Live Downstream,\u201d and encourage citizen participation in activities to improve water quality in local watersheds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deadline for NPS mini-grant applications is January 29, 2021.\u00a0<\/strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?page_id=21437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the online application and more information. Questions should be directed to\u00a0Shannon Wehinger at <a href=\"mailto:swehinger@pacd.org\">swehinger@pacd.org<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21482\" width=\"106\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Financial and other support for the NPS Mini-grant Program is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection continuing to support conservation district educational projects, PACD is ready to open a new round of Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grants! Grants up to $2,000 are awarded to conservation districts for adult educational projects that offer strategies for reducing and preventing NPS Pollution. Projects should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}