The Strategic Initiative Lead Teams provide grants to advance Puget Sound Recovery by investing in both programmatic and local actions that accelerate recovery. These recovery actions are designed to protect and restore habitat, water quality and harvestable shellfish beds. These results are intimately tied to improving conditions for humans and centering equity and climate change.
The selected investments were informed by over six years of discussions and public comment associated with Implementation Strategy development and responses to public comment regarding the Puget Sound Partnership’s Action Agenda. By investing in projects that enhance and carry forward the Implementation Strategies we can assure our work accelerates Puget Sound recovery by protecting and restoring habitat, water quality, and harvestable shellfish beds.
Funding decisions and priorities are guided by our collaborative Investment Plan. Using the Investment Plan for guidance, each Strategic Initiative Lead will develop one or more Request for Proposals (RFPs) which will be announced here on this page. Please check back soon for updates!
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Shellfish SIL RFP
Help WWTP planning and strategizing for improvements (Priority D)
Up to $1 million for proposals between $200,000 to $1 million for up to 4 years
Coming April 11, 2023.
Stormwater SIL RFP
Innovative Best Management Practice installations for Toxic Chemicals in Hotspots and Transportation Areas
Up to $1.5 million for proposals up to $500,000
Coming March 15, 2024
Habitat SIL RFP
Funding from the Habitat SIL focuses on implementing the Floodplains and Estuaries, Shoreline Armoring, Land Development and Cover, and Marine Vegetation, Implementation Strategies to achieve multiple outcomes for Streams and Floodplains, Forests, and Wetlands, Estuaries, and Beaches and Marine Vegetation in Puget Sound through Investment Priorities A-E in the Habitat SIL Investment Plan.
Up to $9 million for proposals between $200,000 to $800,000 for up to 4 years.
Now closed--was opened October 4th, 2022 through December 6th, 2022.
This grant program is managed by the Habitat Strategic Initiative, Shellfish Strategic Initiative, and Stormwater Strategic Initiative with funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.