Grant Writing Sample: Lake restoration project. This grant was written by stellar veteran startup analyst and impact worker Leilani Yats who we met while she was working at Long Way Home project in Saragoza, Guatemala, only about an hour and a half away from the JungleLab Coworking Laboratory.
Mitigating environmental, social and health hazards associated with raw sewage pollution in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION through in-situ Water and Sludge Scrubbing via methanogenic archaea cultivation and an innovative and simplified cavitation technology machine.
Name of the organization:
Foundation for Eco Development and Conservation – NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION-
Legal status :
Non-profit organization
Date of creation :
November XXXX
Website :
www.NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION.org.gt/
Head office address :
NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION City
Name and email address of the legal representative :
NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE MANAGER, GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION.org.gt
Main expertise/intervention domains :
(water/sanitation/waste management, rural/urban area, geographical zone…)
Nature conservation; watershed management and support to potable water systems; payments for environmental services; Municipal planning; rainwater storage in rural communities; rural and urban sustainable development in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION ( Departments of Izabal, , Huehuetenango and NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION city); sanitation and waste management (in coordination with NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE Partner);
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Context
As in most developing countries, urban growth in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION has accelerated exponentially at a rate that undermines the government’s land and environmental management efforts. The metropolitan area of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION City, the nation’s capital, now harbors an estimate of X,XXX,XXX inhabitants with a respective density of XXXX,XX hab/km². Accompanying this rapid demographic growth comes an increasing amount of urban and peri urban solid waste and wastewater that cannot be managed by local municipalities. The city’s wastewater sewage system is the remnant of a city of half a million inhabitants, and only a few treatments plants function precariously across the city. Less than XX% of the capital City wastewater is treated, and over XX% of raw sewage is dumped in creeks and rivers. Over XX% of this untreated sewage water – both domestic and industrial- ends up in Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE, located less than XX km to the south of the City. Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE – once a beautiful mountain lake of volcanic origins- has therefore become one of major sewers of the metropolitan region. An estimated amount of X,XXX litres of sewage water enters the lake each second through the Rio Villalobos watershed, responsible for XX% of the total water flow that enters the lake.
In a few years, if nothing is urgently done, the lake will become a fetid and toxic swamp, an environmental nightmare for millions of local inhabitants. Over the past XX years, often mired in corruption and institutional weaknesses, local municipalities and the central government of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION have been unable to tackle this urgent environmental issue. Also, traditional water treatment plants, with expensive capital and operational costs, and requiring highly trained personnel, have proven to be beyond the existing institutional capabilities of local authorities. There are dozens of abandoned water treatment plants scattered throughout the city , often built to comply with licensing permits (and never put into operation) or poorly built as a result of corruption deals and poor supervision.
Recently, NGO GRANT SAMPLE GOVERNMENT NGO, the Authority for the Sustainable Management of the NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE Basin and Lake, has focused on recovering up-stream water treatments facilities that were nonfunctional due to bad management practices. Unfortunately, this efforts are not enough to significantly tackle the pollution entering the lake, making every action count in the long run to clean the lake and mitigate its direct impact on the health and well-being of over XX,XXX people living directly around the lake.
This situation can be found in many developing countries,where untreated water is hampering development efforts, harming the health of millions, and destroying vital natural ecosystems, from lakes to reefs, further diminishing sustainable livelihoods opportunities across the planet. It is therefore URGENT and extremely important to develop new and cheaper wastewater treatment technologies that can be affordable, easily manageable and rapidly replicated and deployable across developing countries.
This project is the inspiration of Social Entrepreneur NGO GRANT SAMPLE PROJECT OWNER, who found his new mission when confronted with the tragedy of Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE, and left behind his successful business endeavours in order to save Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE in partnership with NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION, one of the largest and most successful Environmental Conservation NGO´s in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION.
Through the proposed innovative technology, and in the context of our Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE initiative, the project will have the following direct and replicable impacts:
Our Social Entrepreneur: NGO GRANT SAMPLE PROJECT OWNER
In XXXX, NGO GRANT SAMPLE PROJECT OWNER was commercially (and successfully) selling and managing his wastewater treatment technology in hog farms located in the state of Jalisco. Between XXXX and XXXX, the aim of the project was to create a circular water system inside the farm, so wastewater could be recycled decreasing freshwater consumption. Recirculation of the water treated by a cavitation assisted machine resulted in a significant decrease of both water consumption and pollution metrics in the excess water that was then used for irrigation. In XXXX, the project moved to hog farms and palm oil plantation in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION, where it showed to decrease significantly the total biochemical oxygen demand of their heavily polluted wastewater.
In XXXX, an invitation by local coffee producers brought to NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION, were he was confronted to the sad reality of Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE. abandoned his commercial endeavour, created a local Association -NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE Partner- and later partnered with NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION – a longstanding and established NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATIONn environmental NGO- in order to launch a Social Enterprise for the rescue of Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE. realized that Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE has a series of hydrological conditions that allowed for the deployment of the same kind of technology he was using for industrial purposes, in order to treat the pollution entering the lake.
NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE Partner launched a pilot project in the Playa de Oro area, located near the Villalobos river delta, achieving the deployment of two treatment machines that successfully operated for XX month, reaching proof of concept and demonstrating the rapidity, efficiency, economy and replicability of the proposed technology. Straightaway, NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE Partner began collaborating with NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION to scale the project through the creation of a Social Enterprise that will first seek to rescue Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE, and then launch other pilots in Caribbean NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and Belize (in order to support the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef System).
Objectives
General Objective
To deploy a viable and affordable wastewater treatment system that will mitigate environmental, social and health hazards associated with Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE pollution through a Water and Sludge Scrubbing system based on in-situ methanogenic archaea cultivation and an innovative and simplified cavitation technology machine.
Once the Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE Project is running, we will disseminate this methodology by manufacturing our machine in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and replicating the project in Caribbean NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION, Belize City, and other potential and high priority sites across the region.
Our technology will be made available without any intellectual property rights for not-for profit endeavours and initiatives, and will be commercially distributed under for-profit schemes when serving private for-profit businesses.
Specific Objective
During its commercial phase, this project proved the viability of simultaneous sludge elimination and wastewater remediation by transforming hog waste into water in two hog farms located in Jalisco NGO GRANT SAMPLE NEIGHBOR COUNTRY. The hog waste is collected in biologically activated storage tanks under each of the hog barns and is periodically flushed into one end of a treatment lagoon while the water with which to flush the barns comes from the other end of the treatment lagoon. These real world hog farms demonstrated a scalable and affordable system to obtain zero discharge hog farms.
The Not-for profit phase of this project was carried out in Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE and proved the viability of deploying this technology directly into the lake: During this phase X meters of sludge were “digested” and eliminated, the water was cleaned in the trial site and fish populations recovered in the area (with more fish during the period than there had been in decades).
An ongoing project is monitoring performance of the machines and recording the cost per kg of (COD) pollution reduced in a site that reasonably approximates the conditions of the river Villalobos, which is the sole pollution source of lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE.
The project combines existing and novel technologies in such a way as to dramatically lower the costs of reducing sludge and wastewater.
The system is the synergy of different natural phenomena that seek to accelerate and improve the anaerobic digestion process for the treatment of wastewater. Unlike conventional sedimentation aeration systems and lagoons, the system seeks to create the necessary conditions for the in-situ (local) cultivation of natural methanogenic archaea in a system of Direct Transmission Interespecies de Electrones or DIET (for its acronym in English) in order to eliminate accumulated sludge and sediment. This system creates a totally anaerobic environment at the bottom of the lagoon, in which digestion takes place. The system is composed in its simplest model by a Venturi machine tht floats within the polluted lake or lagoon; the reverse rotation (at low efficiency) of the Venturi rotors create a low pressure system that allows a cavitation and sinusoidal wave phenomenon. Cavitation leads to two important phenomena: the release of enzymes and hydrolysis proteins from the wall and membrane of cells that are suspended in the water surface, and the precipitation of free CaX + ions in insoluble calcium carbonate. The formation of this insoluble mineral compound allows the conduction of direct electrons (DIET) between the methanogenic Archaeas and the Geobacter bacteria, the result of which is the formation of CHX (figure X). The formation of the system (DIET) has consequences at the biophysical level in the sedimentation lagoon since, the anaerobic digestion develops without the formation of by-products such as hydrogen sulfide (responsible for the bad smell) and of ammonia. The elimination of sludge is carried out through the constant formation of sinusoidal waves; the constant movement provokes a stretching of the floating organic matter which in turn is partially hydrolyzed. The hydrolysis changes the original polymeric organic matter, such as fats, polysaccharides and proteins into soluble and smaller molecules that are consumed by acid formers / fermentors. These create an ecosystem which enhances methanogenic production and eliminates sludge and HXS.
Furthermore the project will demonstrate and quantify the conversion of sunken algae and wastewater by reducing the resultant sludge into methane energy. The central thesis is, when inventoried sludge is sufficiently plentiful it can be reduced to methane (and pure water) which, in turn, can be harnessed to power wastewater treatment plants thereby breaking the circle of abandoning and building ever more treatment plants. In a second phase, our project will seek to capture this methane to create a fully circular process.
Earlier phases conclusively prove that the system simultaneously remediates wastewater and eliminates sludge:
As stated above, by adding methane capture to its already proven sludge reduction and wastewater remediation capability, we will create a circular and self sustaining system.
Duration and action plan
If the project is part of a broader programme, describe how the project fits in with this programme and benefits from its results.
The project is divided in several phase, each one of them responsible for achieving specific objectives that will ultimately achieve the project long term goal, to develop affordable and innovative water treatment technologies in the Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE basin, NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and all across Central America. The following table explains the project calendar, with its corresponding achieved and planned activities.
YEAR | |||||||||||||||||||||
Component | ACTIVITIES | <XXXX | XXXX | XXXX | XXXX | XXXX | |||||||||||||||
QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | QX | ||
X | Testing of the technology and zero waste in Hog Farms in NGO GRANT SAMPLE NEIGHBOR COUNTRY | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||
X. Initiation of the pilot project in Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE | X.X Contact with stakeholders and land assessment of the area where the pilot would take place. | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
X.X Initial deployment planification of two cavitating wastewater treatment machines. | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
X.X Initiation of the pilot project in Playa de Oro. | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
X.X Monitoring of the pilot project. | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||
X.X Communication and stakeholder involvement activities. | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
X.X End of the first phase of the pilot project. | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
X. Development of patent free (for non-commercial purposes) XD model of a new cavitating wastewater treatment machine. | X.X Planning of new models and drawing designment. | x | |||||||||||||||||||
X.X XD modeling (FusionXXX) of designed machine. | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
X.X Correction and approval of XD models by Washington University. | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
X.X Printing of a the modeled prototype | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
X.X Testing of the modeled prototype | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
X.X Patenting as Creative Common intellectual property, free to use in non-commercial objectives | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
X. Phase II of the Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE Pilot project in the first lagoon of the Villalobos delta | X.X Stakeholder involvement activities: coordination agreement with San Miguel Petapa Municipality. | x | |||||||||||||||||||
X.X Deployment and Monitoring planning. | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
X.X Deployment of X cavitation wastewater treatment machines in the first lagoon of the Villalobos river delta. | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||
X.X Monitoring of the pilot project phase II | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||
X.X Communication and stakeholder involvement activities. | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||
X. Dissemination and replication | Presentation of the result and the technology to municipalities from the caribbean coast of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and Belize | x | x |
NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION´s work in Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE is part of a larger multi-year program, for the promotion and establishment of the “Metropolitan Ecological Greenbelt” of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION City. In partnership with the FFEM (Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial), NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION is seeking to create a network of metropolitan ecological parks around and within NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION City. Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE is a vital component of the Metropolitan Greenbelt, and is a high priority in our vision for a “Green and Sustainable City”.
This project seeks ultimately to promote affordable wastewater treatment technologies to public authorities in precarious areas of the country and Central America, starting in the caribbean region of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION, for the protection of the Mesoamerican Reef System. This project will be a step forward in the partnerhip between NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION and NGO GRANT SAMPLE PROJECT OWNER for the protection natural water resources, and will be a cornerstone of the water management in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION for the next five to ten years.
Human resources of the applicant organisation
Illustrate how your experience (and that of your team) provides credibility to your project (references, expertise in water services, sanitation or waste management in developing countries, experience in the geographic area of the project, etc.).
The vendors for this phase of the project include the following:
Furthermore, into the future, the project will need to subcontract vendors that will provide the methane-powered electric generator, the geomembrane with which to construct the floating biodigester, the grinder to grind recycled plastic bottles into the raw material from which most of the system’s components will be constructed.
Material and technical resources
Financial resources
Provide details of the project’s budget and financing:
Unit Cost $ | Cost-Share by Applicant | Program Total | |||||||||
Unit | Number | Amount (cantidad) | Rate | ||||||||
A | Personnel | months or years | salary (month or year) | % effort | |||||||
A.X | US-Based personnel | ||||||||||
A.X.X | Project Manager | Months | XX | X.XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | ||||
A.X.X | Project Officer, etc. | Month | XX | XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | ||||
A.X | Field Personnel | ||||||||||
A.X.X | Administrative assistant | Months | XX | XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | ||||
Subtotal Personnel | X.XXX,XX | XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | ||||||||
B.X | Local guards | Months | XX | XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | ||||||
B.X | Field Personnel Fringe Benefits | X,XX | |||||||||
Subtotal Fringe Benefits | X,XX | X,XX | X.XXX,XX | ||||||||
C | Travel | # people | # days | Cost | % effort | ||||||
C.X | Airfare international (from…to…, one way/RT?) | X | X | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | ||||
C.X.X | Per diem (Country/City) | X | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | |||||
C.X | Domestic Travel Only | ||||||||||
C.X.X | Monitoring | X | XX | XX,XX | X.XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | X,XX | X.XXX,XX | |||
Subtotal Travel | X.XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | |||||||||
D | Equipment (> $X,XXX per unit ) | # units | unit cost | ||||||||
D.X | X sludge digestion machines | X | XX.XXX,XX | X,XX | XX.XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | |||||
D.X | Equipment for installation | X | X.XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | ||||||
D.X | XD printing of prototype | X | X.XXX,XX | X.XXX,XX | |||||||
Subtotal Equipment | XX.XXX,XX | XX.XXX,XX | |||||||||
F | Contractual (Subrecipients, Subcontracts, and Consultant fees) | ||||||||||
F.X | Contractual Sub grantee #X (NAME) | ||||||||||
F.X.X | University of WashingtonXd models technician | XX.XXX,XX | |||||||||
F.X.X | Molds and the roto mold | XX.XXX,XX | |||||||||
Subtotal sub grantee #X (NAME) | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | ||||||||
Subtotal Contractual (all sub grantees) | X,XX | X,XX | XX.XXX,XX | ||||||||
G | Contruction | ||||||||||
G.X | None | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | |||||||
H | Other Direct Costs | ||||||||||
H.X | All else that does not fall into above categories | X,XX | |||||||||
Subtotal Other Direct Costs | X,XX | X,XX | X,XX | ||||||||
K | Total Project Cost | (must match award amount) | XXX.XXX,XX |
For each person and stakeholder involved in the project, explain clearly and in detail their degree of involvement and role in the project.
For applicants for the Access to Essential Services Award, highlight how the public authorities are involved in this project.
During the pilot phase in Lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE, the project established a set of relationships with stakeholders from the civil society, public institutions, the private sector as well as with locals from the NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE basin. The following stakeholders showed the highest degree of involvement during the initial pilot phase:
In particular, describe and quantify, as far as possible, how your project contributes to the improvement of:
The pilot demonstrated several key results that have encouraged the local stakeholders, with support from this Award, NGO GRANT SAMPLE PROJECT OWNER and NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION will conduct the second phase of the NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE remediation project, and will achieve the following results:
In the specific case of wastewater treatment, the question of the project sustainability deserves particular weight. In NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and in most countries of Central America most wastewater treatment plants are turned off and those that are not turned off do not treat enough wastewater to significantly decrease water pollution; it is common for operational wastewater treatment plants to be turned off at night and during the rainy season. For this reason, demonstrating and precisely quantifying wastewater treatment systems which require almost no oversight and which are dramatically less expensive to operate would have a profound and game-changing impact, both in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION and other Developing countries.
In order to formulate a longer term economic model to ensure the sustainability of wastewater treatment plant’s operations, this project has focused on the following pillars of sustainability:
All project management, monitoring and evaluation activities will be ensured by NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION. Our Administrative Department will ensure Accounting and internal auditing services, and our technical department will ensure project monitoring, evaluation and reporting. External Auditos of the project will be carried out by an internationally certified auditing agency.
A local surveillance operations Unit will be deployed by NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION. The monitoring of the project will be made in accordance to NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION Monitoring and Evaluation procedures, which is designed in three levels:
– Level one: A detailed operational project plan will be prepared and presented to the project staff; each month the project coordinator will hold a meeting with the project staff in order to program specific activities and to evaluate the execution of the preceding month. A report of the previous month will be made including activities, results and verifiers, as well as the results and activities status.
– Level two: Each X months the monitoring and evaluation unit of NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION will verify the accomplishment of the logical framework using a list of verifiers and the detailed project plan.
– Level three: As part of this process each year a field trip will be organized in order to verify the activities and impacts of the project, the Evaluation group will be integrated by NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION´s Technical and Administrative Committee (from its Central Offices in NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE LOCATION city).
Final evaluation on project delivery: A final evaluation will be made a by group of experts from NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION, the project lead manager and a laboratory specialist. The process will consist in the following: Evaluation field trip ; review of the monitoring results and indicators in order to evaluate the trajectory of targeted objectives and metrics.
If the project is considered to be the recipient of the Fondation Suez Awards, the respective fund will be used entirely to finance the proposed activities and the project budget. NGO GRANT WRITING SAMPLE ORGANIZATION will ensure counterpart support for the project, and no overhead will be charged to Award Funds.
Explain clearly and concisely why your project is innovative.
This project is innovative because its success will dramatically calibrate wastewater treatment and sludge handling strategies all over the world. The project is capable of:
Additionally, into the future, the project third objective aims to use the potential of sludge reduction into methane to produce biogas for electricity production. By achieving this goals the project will be able to:
Describe the methods you are using (or planning to use) to promote the project’s activities and the results achieved. ·
In this section, describe the framing elements to be communicated if another organisation wanted to appropriate and implement your project/innovation.
Methodology
Each innovation is applicable around the world.
We have already incontrovertibly proven efficacy in sludge elimination and wastewater remediation. This should already have immediate implications for countries around the world. We think so far this the efficient wastewater remediation and sludge elimination portion of the technology has not been more widely implemented is has a result of decision makers not being aware of the implications of this technology on their situation, or, they don’t believe it to be true, or, they think that they can’t afford it, or, they make money in the current corrupt environment.
The methodology is to more precisely quantify and to publish the economics of each innovation with respect to the innovation’ results in this project in a small lagoon connected to lake NGO GRANT SAMPLE LAKE..
The global method required for the project implementation consist on the following key activities:.
The particularities to be respected are the following:
The prerequisites and necessary resources are the following:
Economic and human feasibility
The economic feasibility of the project relies on the following costs:
Based on the project experience the financial sources can be the following:
Technical feasibility
The implementation of a similar wastewater treatment projects using this technology requires access to XD printing services to use the patent free model of the system. Additionally it requires capacity to search for financial sustainability through treatment services.
Intellectual property
Our technology will be made available without any intellectual property costs for not-for profit endeavours and initiatives, and will be commercially distributed under for-profit schemes when serving private for-profit businesses in order to ensure the sustainability of the initiative.
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