About the Great Lakes Clean Communities Network (GLCCN) and the Community Partnership Program
The Great Lakes Clean Communities Network (GLCCN) is a growing network of environmental practitioners, planners and community leaders, and watershed organizations around the Great Lakes Basin who work together to enhance their local environment and improve the health of the Great Lakes. Coordinated by the Michigan State University Institute of Water Research and funded through the Great Lakes Protection Fund, the GLCCN also includes an Ecological Scorecard (EcoScore) where communities can evaluate and track their ecological improvements over time. The GLCCN Community Partnership Program (CPP) funds small projects to assist communities with implementing various practices that directly improve water quality in their local watershed or relate to one of the EcoScore’s 12 land and water indicators. Funding in 2016 was made possible through the Great Lakes Protection Fund.
2016 Community Partnership Program Recipients are below. Read the press release.
- Blanford Nature Center - Slope Stabilization and Stormwater Management Public Demonstration Area
- Clinton River Watershed Council - Rain Gardens in Public Spaces to Benefit our Streams and the Community
- Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation - Permeable Parking Pad
- International Wildlife Refuge Alliance - Coastal and Wetland-Adjacent Tree Plantings at the Refuge Gateway
- Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council - Hidden River Rain Garden Project
- Muskegon Community College - Floating Treatment Wetland Pilot Project
- North Corktown Neighborhood Association - North Corktown Rain Garden
- Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway - Rainwater Biofiltration at the Bird of Prey Facility
- Tri-County Regional Planning Commission - Rain Garden Demonstration Project
