Grants and Funding

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Making good things happen along the canals

The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor offer competitive grant funding to support tourism and recreation along the New York State Canal System (Canal waterways and Canalway Trail).

The program provides funding to support tourism infrastructure and amenity improvements, and events. Grant funding is open to counties, municipalities, units of local government, not-for-profit organizations and federally recognized Native American tribes.


2024 Applications Closed


Grants will be announced in April. The 2025 round of funding will open in late fall.

Award Range:
$5,000 to $24,000


Award Range:
$500 to $3,000


Projects submitted should demonstrate how they will achieve one or more program objectives:

  • facilitate recreation and/or tourism
  • enhance visitor amenities and/or improve the visitor experience
  • encourage overnight stays
  • commemorate the history, heritage, or culture of the canals
  • make recreational and tourism assets more accessible for all ages and abilities and expand audiences served
  • improve and/or promote connectivity between recreation areas and communities or between waterways and land trails

TIMELINE

Application Opens: January 8, 2024
Information Session: January 25, 10am
Applications Due: February 23, 2024
Awards Announced: April 2024

Information Session Recording

This recording of the public information session held on 1/25/2024 includes an overview of the program and its two funding categories: Event Support and Tourism Infrastructure & Amenity Support, followed by Q&A from participants.

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