2025 Enbridge Watershed Mini Grant Program – Funding Now Available for Local Ohio Watershed Groups

Thank you for your continued interest in the Watershed Mini Grants Program in collaboration with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy.

Some of us live in the country. Others dwell in the city. Everyone lives in a watershed.

In 2015, Dominion Energy now Enbridge and Western Reserve Land Conservancy teamed up to create a grant program, one similar to a program Dominion Energy has been doing with Western Pennsylvania Conservancy for more than 10 years. Understanding that many watershed groups work with a skeleton staff on very limited budgets, our hope is the Watershed Mini Grant Program helps fill a void and reduce some of the financial burdens these small watershed groups face. Grants are made available to eligible watershed groups for activities designed to promote and maintain the health of Ohio watersheds.

Protecting our watersheds is vital. Watershed groups provide an important service to the larger community by recognizing potential threats, devising plans, taking corrective actions and educating the public. Water quality can be affected by many things – human and non-human – but habitat degradation and nonpoint source pollution are two of the biggest continuing problems. The quality of our water is affected by alterations to the land – mining, roadways, agriculture, urban development, deforestation, and the everyday activities of the people within the watershed.

As Ohio’s largest land trust, Western Reserve Land Conservancy believes it is our responsibility to support organizations whose mission and values are similar to ours. We are excited to once again offer these grants, thanks to the tremendous support from Enbridge and the Enbridge Charitable Foundation. Through this program we hope to foster long lasting relationships with working watershed groups across the state of Ohio.

For more information and to apply, please go to: https://wrlandconservancy.org/watershedminigrants2025