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Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - Present
This is a planning grant to identify the ecological benefits and explore the financial rationale for pursuing water conservation and green infrastructure practices, and test how this information—when combined with effective knowledge transfer techniques—can drive better water management throughout the Great Lakes basin.
Founders Film: A Look Back to Go Forward
2012 - Present
This team is producing a short-format film documenting the Fund's founding governors, their vision for the Great Lakes and the steps they took to put that vision into action.
Characterizing the Risk-Release Relationship for Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
2011 - Present
This team will develop new scientific methods to estimate the risk of establishment of aquatic invasive species and will determine how the invasion risks vary with the numbers of invasive organisms released into the environment.
Great Lakes River Mouths and the Region's Economic and Environmental Future
2011 - Present
This is a planning grant that will seek to develop a new regional approach to Great Lakes river mouth redevelopment that will be founded on protecting and restoring hydrological and ecological services and managing Great Lakes river mouths as a network.
Market Based Approaches to Green Infrastructure To Restore Hydrologic Function
2011 - Present
This team will develop a market-based approach to provide a consistent source of capital for sustainable stormwater solutions that will ultimately lead to reestablishment of more natural flows and improved water quality and function for Great Lakes tributaries.
Watershed Ecological Sustainability Strategy - Transactions for Agricultural Ecosystem Services
2011 - Present
This team will design and test different transaction frameworks that will improve how resources and funding flows to water stewardship practices on farms.
Compact Council Support: Non-regulatory Operations
2010 - Present
This award provides support for the non-regulatory operations of the Compact Council and Regional Body. The team will prepare a funding and operating plan for these new units of government.
Optimizing Industry Water Use - Phase II
2010 - 2012
This team will examine industrial water use with a host of different water footprinting methods to predict ecosystem impacts in the Great Lakes.
Economic and Environmental Benefits of Industrial Water Use Efficiency
2010 - Present
This team will design a basin-wide industrial water conservation assistance program, including a menu of program offerings for industrial facilities that use public water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Piloting a Paradigm for Adaptive Management of Great Lakes Watersheds
2010 - Present
This team will create a new set of analytic tools to explore the many uses of the basin’s waters, those uses’ impacts on ecological health and the economic value created by such uses.

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 243 grants and program related investments representing more than $62.6 million to support the creative work of collaborative teams that test new ideas, take risks, and share what they learn.

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