Great Lakes Protection Fund

The Fund’s mission is to identify, demonstrate, and promote regional action to enhance the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
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Questions and Actions
The Great Lakes region’s most important resource is its water. Increasingly healthy and available water is a competitive advantage to attract new residents, new industries, and to support a likely very different economy than that of the last century. In 1989, a bipartisan group of governors established the Great Lakes Protection Fund to explore and test new ideas that make the Great Lakes healthier and more valuable. The Fund is seeking innovative thinkers and doers to lead and to change the world through improved uses of water—to answer questions with actions.
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The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the Governors of the Great Lakes states. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
To date, the Fund has made 258 grants and program related investments representing more than $72 million to support the creative work of collaborative teams that test new ideas, take risks, and share what they learn.