Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions (AVCC) Tiny Grants Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions (AVCC) Tiny Grants Program 2025. The objective of AVCC’s Tiny Grants program is to supply seed cash and/or matching funds for particular tasks within the broad classes of land conservation, training and outreach, stewardship and administration, and planning.

The 2025 Tiny Grants are made potential with beneficiant help from The Nature Conservancy in Vermont, Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission and Vermont Natural Resources Council.

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•  The grant vary is as much as $700 USD.

Eligibility

• Groups should be conservation commissions or native committees/teams which are working in direction of changing into a conservation fee in Vermont, USA, and paid members of AVCC.
• Groups should be a municipality or IRS licensed 501(c)(3) public charity or have fiscal sponsorship by a municipality or IRS licensed 501(c)(3) public charity. Prior recipients of grants from AVCC will need to have accomplished these grants and closed them out. Grants can’t be used for basic funds, dues or subscriptions.

Evaluation Criteria

• Demonstrated want
• Closely aligns with grant objectives
• Project readiness
• Local help and volunteer involvement
• Evidence of matching funds and/or in-type providers

Application

Applications should embody:

• Contact title and e-mail handle
• Title of proposed challenge (e.g. “Landowner Outreach Campaign”)
• Brief description of the challenge
• Projected price range (together with different sources of funding or in-type contributions)
• Amount requested from AVCC (as much as $700)
• How Tiny Grant funding will make a difference
• A plan for measuring affect and success

Click here for a printable version of the 2025 application form.
Click here to download an application template in Microsoft Word.

Email all purposes to the AVCC Board at [email protected]. They strongly encourage e-mail submissions, but when it’s not potential to ship supplies electronically, you possibly can mail them to:

Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions
c/o Vermont Natural Resources Council
11 Baldwin Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

For extra data, go to AVCC Tiny Grants Program.