Do you have an idea for an Environmental Mini-Grant project? We want to hear it! Fill out a short online form and share a few details about your project idea. We will be accepting project ideas starting January 1, 2025. 

Physical forms are available upon request.

Note: All physical copies must be received by January 31, 2025 to be considered.

Once we receive your proposal form, we will contact you to discuss your idea in more detail. If your project is a good fit for the program, you will be asked to complete a full application.

If you would like help or advice when completing an application, contact Sarah Bruemmer at sbruemmer@shorelinewa.gov to set up a short one-on-one meeting. Physical applications are available upon request.

Seattle REconomy will deliver a series of repair and skill-sharing classes at the Shoreline Tool Library to help community members prevent and reduce waste. They will partner with other circular economy and social justice organizations to offer a range of classes such as tool sharpening and maintenance, sewing, seed saving, and more! Check out their schedule of classes here.

ACTION: Visit the Shoreline Tool Library to check out tools, purchase secondhand building supplies, or participate in an upcoming class or event.

The Master Gardener Foundation of King County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, will provide a workshop series to educate Shoreline residents on how to adapt gardening practices to a changing climate. Topics may include vegetable gardening and climate change, fire resistant landscape gardening, and more. They will also translate their "gardening tip sheets" into at least three languages to make their curriculum available to a diverse audience.

ACTION: Embrace natural yard care techniques in your garden! Check out the Garden Hotline, a free service to King County residents that offers individualized solutions to garden problems that are practical, safe, effective, and natural. 

Kruckeberg Botanic Garden Foundation will create a new climate-resilient demonstration garden bed that will showcase plants that are better adapted for our increasingly longer, warmer summers. This installation will feature drought-tolerant plants, and interpretative signs that raises awareness about the impacts of climate change and how the community can respond to these changes.

The Twin Ponds Giving Garden has been operating successfully since 2012. An informal group of volunteers use this garden to grow produce to donate to local food banks and help help those in need. Last year, volunteers delivered 2,515 pounds of organic vegetables to local food banks. As well as a source of healthy food, the garden is a learning environment for all volunteers and visitors. Volunteers provide education on environmentally-friendly gardening to the local community, including other gardeners and park visitors.

To encourage environmentally-friendly food gardening practices and increase food security for vulnerable populations in the community, a community garden volunteer will procure seeds and plant starts, amend the soil, compost appropriate vegetation, water, harvest and deliver the harvested organic produce to food banks. They will also maintain a corner in the garden called the “Children’s Garden,” to encourage Shoreline youth to experience the garden and learn where their food comes from.

ACTION: Volunteers are always needed to help with all aspects of the food bank gardens, from planting to delivery. If you would like to learn more about how to get involved please complete the Community Garden Volunteer Interest Form and we will help you get started.

Provide interactive, nature-based education on ecosystems, sustainability, and climate change to two fifth grade classes at Shoreline elementary schools. Students will also participate field trips to local parks to engage in hands-on learning around watershed concepts. 

Pilot a tool library in Shoreline, which functions like a book library but for tools. The pilot will help our community save money and reduce waste by allowing residents to check out pressure washers, weed whackers, party tents, catering supplies, and other tools on a sliding-scale membership based on the ability to pay. The tool library will also support the reuse and repair of tools. 

ACTION: Visit the Shoreline Tool Library to check out tools, purchase secondhand building supplies, or participate in an upcoming class or event.

Contribute to local bat conservation by assembling and installing bat boxes at Twin Ponds Park. Monitor the bat boxes to track roosting bats and provide education to park visitors on bats, sustainability, and conservation efforts associated with the project.

ACTION: Learn how to garden for bats by providing food, water, and shelter in even the smallest of spaces.

Build a new pantry to collect and distribute donations of seeds and plant starts to the surrounding neighborhood. The pantry will include an educational component where residents share not only physical materials, but also local gardening knowledge and techniques to help new gardeners get started.

ACTION: Embrace natural yard care techniques in your garden! Check out the Garden Hotline, a free service to King County residents that offers individualized solutions to garden problems that are practical, safe, effective, and natural. 

In partnership with Salmon in Schools, purchase and install a tank to hatch and rear salmon and provide an educational unit on the salmon life cycle at a Shoreline school. The project will help increase environmental stewardship for elementary students.

ACTION: You can help keep our streams, lakes, and Puget Sound clean for salmon and other wildlife, and safe for us all to enjoy while swimming, fishing, and recreating.