General News

August 8, 2020. The University of Southern Maine, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and others will help sustain Casco Bay for decades with EPA grant. News Center Maine reports.

Portland, ME: CBEP is offering a small grants program for creative tools for digital and distance learning for school educators, non-profit environmental educators, science communicators & others. Here is the RFP

The June 24, 2020 Portland Phoenix story is here.

June 15, 2020. Maine Biz article referencing a Freeport Conservation Trust project.

The National Estuary Program (NEP) Coastal Watersheds Grant (CWG) Program is a newly created, nationally competitive grants program designed to support projects that address urgent and challenging issues threatening the well-being of coastal and estuarine areas within determined estuaries of national significance. Restore America’s Estuaries will be administering the NEP CWG Program in cooperation with … Read more

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is pleased to announce the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) – Grants for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Projects Watershed-based Plan Implementation. DEP is inviting applications for projects to help communities implement nine-element watershed-based plans to restore NPS-impaired water bodies or protect waters threatened by NPS pollution. … Read more

Find out more about our new quarterly program aimed at municipal officials and download resource materials. More information here.

CBEP received ten proposals totaling nearly $30,000 from schools, nonprofit organizations and community groups. You can read the announcement here.

2020 Community Grants RFP is available here.

The USM Office of Public Affairs reports on USM Senior Tyler Walsh’s summer internship with CBEP, assessing nutrient pollution in Casco Bay. Story here.