Partnership Alliance Marketing
Grant and Funding Sources
Virginia Tourism Corporation Marketing Leverage Program
The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) Marketing Leverage Program is designed to stimulate new tourism marketing through the creation of partnerships and to extend the "Virginia is for Lovers" campaign. The program requires a minimum of three financial partners. Funds may be used for a variety of marketing programs.
Complete information can be found at http://www.vatc.org/PAM/leverageprog.asp.
Gateways Network Announces FY10
Deadline for Grant Application
The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network has received an appropriation for fiscal year 2010, and will be soliciting proposals for Gateways Grant projects. The following preliminary information will help you begin strategizing on project proposals.
The deadline for submitting project proposals will be Noon, Friday, March 5, 2010.
Complete details on the submission requirements will be included in the Grant Guidelines which will be available on the Gateways web site at http://www.baygateways.net/grants.cfm in approximately one week. Please note that the eligible categories for 2010 Gateways Grants have been revised and are as follows.
Priorities for 2010 Gateways Grant Proposals
In 2010, we will ONLY accept grant proposals in the following categories:
Projects that offer new or expanded opportunities for public access to the Bay and its rivers.
What kind of projects are eligible?
· Projects that offer the public greater proximity to Bay or its rivers in a way they did not have previously, and/or in a way that puts them in contact with Bay waters for additional activities
· Projects that improve access opportunities for a greater or broader public audience.
· Projects that provide land to water and/or water to land access
· Projects that build waterfront recreational features or amenities such as beach access, docks, observation decks, trails, boardwalks, soft launches, car top boat access, etc.
· Clearly defined interpretive or educational products or programs developed in association with access enhancement projects that help people understand the relationship of that place/resource to the Chesapeake Bay
Projects that promote a broadly applicable stewardship ethic and actively foster citizen stewardship of the Chesapeake.
What kinds of projects are eligible?
· Restoration, conservation and preservation projects that provide volunteers with opportunities for hands-on participation and that build on-going volunteer/visitor involvement.
· Projects that demonstrate and promote exemplary conservation stewardship and sustainability and serve as models for others to follow.
· Clearly defined interpretive or educational products or programs at sites that directly support restoration, conservation and preservation projects and/or provide visitors with actionable information on their role in Chesapeake stewardship.
Projects that advance the development of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historical Trail (CAJO) and/or the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail (STSP).
What kinds of projects are eligible?
· Projects that help fulfill baseline trail development needs and provide sufficient services for anticipated trail visitor use, such as interpretive and orientation signage, maps, guides, on-line resources, etc.
· Clearly defined interpretive or educational products or programs at Gateways sites that are on or near the trail routes and that develop interpretive themes of the national historic trails.
· On-water educational programs that develop interpretive themes of the national historic trails.
Additional Funding Resources
- Virginia Community Capital http://www.vacommunitycapital.org
- Virginia Office of Community Capacity Building Non-Profit Funding Search Request http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/CommunityCapacityBuilding/PDFs/FundingRequestForm.pdf
- Virginia Small Business Financing Authority http://www.dba.state.va.us/financing_business.shtml
- Virginia Enterprise Zone www.dhcd.virginia.gov/EZones
- Ninth District Development Financing, Inc. http://www.nddf.org/
- Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority http://www.vaceda.org
- Southwest Virginia Community Development Financing, Inc. http://www.businesstart.org/
- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/
- Center for Community Development, Inc. http://www.ccdi-va.net
- USDA Rural Information Center Guide to Funding Sources http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/funding/fundguide.htm
- Natural Capital Investment Fund http://www.ncifund.org
- National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/
- National Geographic Conservation Trust Grants http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant/rg2.html
- Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf/
- Resource for federal government grants http://www.grants.gov