The Puget Sound Strategic Initiatives share what they are excited about and hope to accomplish with this year’s funding opportunities in the latest Puget Sound Parentship’s Making Waves issue.

This article is a re-post from an article published in the Puget Sound Partnership’s Making Waves, Q4 Issue 2022. Click here to view the original post and entire article. 

In 2012, the Puget Sound Partnership’s Leadership Council established three initiatives to tackle multiple issues critical to Puget Sound recovery: Stormwater, Habitat, and Shellfish. To manage this effort, agency and institutional partners assembled into three Strategic Initiative (SI) Lead teams, charged with bringing people and ideas together to improve the water, habitat, and communities. These Initiatives are guided by the Puget Sound Partnership’s Action Agenda for Puget Sound. 

Following the release of the 2022-2026 Action Agenda, the Habitat, Shellfish, and Stormwater Strategic Initiative Leads (SILs) have released requests for proposals to solicit proposals for programs, activities, and lines of work that protect and restore habitat, water quality, and harvestable shellfish beds. 

Representatives from each SIL spoke with Making Waves about their new requests for proposals (RFP) and what they hope to accomplish.  

Click here to read the interviews and the rest of the Making Waves article.  

Did you know?

The three Strategic Initiative Leads entered a new seven-year cooperative agreement with EPA on July 1, 2021, funded through EPA’s Puget Sound Geographic Program. The current and upcoming solicitations are supported by both Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2021 and 2022 funds. Pending annual congressional approval, these agreements will receive three additional years of funding for FFY2023, 2024 and 2025. The Strategic Initiative Lead’s website is a great place to stay up to date on current and future funding opportunities: Strategic Initiative Leads Request for Proposals (wa.gov).