LCHIP grant workshop

Board President, Marcy McCann and Vice President, Jen King attended the LCHIP grant workshop in Concord this morning in preparation for filing our upcoming request on June 22nd. According to Digit Taylor, LCHIP Executive Director “Based on the forms received, it appears that there may be up to 80 applicants in this grant round, the largest number of applications in LCHIP’s eighteen-year history.   LCHIP is budgeted to have $3.5 million to distribute in grants.   The total anticipated request in the Intent to Apply forms is just over $11 million, 50 historic resource projects seeking $5.2 million and 30 natural resource projects seeking $5.8+ million.  This grant round looks to be highly competitive! “