When there is an alignment of available talent, a potentially game-changing strategy, and an important threat or problem, the Fund’s Board and staff prepare a solicitation strategy. Often this is in the form of a request for preproposals. Based on expert advice, the Fund estimates whose participation is needed for meaningful projects, what could be launched, the critical success and failure factors for projects, what might be achieved, what level of investment is required and how long projects would need to run.

Most recently, the Fund has used RFPs to solicit potential project ideas on a variety of topics including using information technology to connect human behaviors with ecosystem outcomes and developing prototype water use and management initiatives that use Great Lakes resource health as a driver. If you are interested in receiving a notification when we issue our next RFP, please visit our Get Updates section to sign up.  

Current RFPs
(none)  

Past RFPs

Request for Preproposals
Healthy Uses, Healthy Waters (2009)

Request for Preproposals
Information Technology, Transparency, and Positive Choices (2008) 

Request for Preproposals
Measures and Metrics (2007)

Working Paper
Developing New Financing Products for Ecosystem Restoration (2006)

Working Paper
Stopping Invasive Species (2006)

Request for Preproposals
Growing Water - Improving the Ability of the Great Lakes Basin to Support Future Water Needs (2004) 

Request for Preproposals
Preventing Biological Pollution (2003) 

Request for Preproposals
Supporting Annex 2001: Building an Implementation Toolkit (2002)

Request for Preproposals
Developing a Water Resources Decision Support System: Phase I - Inventory of Information (2000) 

Request for Preproposals
Flow Regime - An Ecological Restoration Strategy (1999)

Request for Proposals
Great Lakes Power Challenge (1997)