Making Your Budget

A line-item budget must be attached to the application. The SWFWMD may choose to fund a project at less than 100 percent of the proposed budget.

Project-related items we may pay for include, but are not limited to:

• Field trips and transportation costs for field trips
• Project-specific consumable supplies and materials
• Printing & postage
• Teacher training
• Freshwater resources education software
• Water testing kits
• Tool rentals
• Plants and soil for Florida-friendly landscaping projects
• Film and photo processing
• Signage
• Portable toilet rentals
• Microscopes
• Meeting room rentals
• Shipping costs
• Watershed or groundwater models
• Books or videos about freshwater resources, watersheds, water quality, etc., that are geographically pertinent
• Water Conservation Kits for grades K-3
  available for $250 through the SWFWMD
• K–3 Watershed Resource Box
  available for $500 through the SWFWMD
• Watershed Education Resources Boxes for grades 4-8
  available for $500 through the SWFWMD

We cannot pay for:

• T-shirts
• Food or beverages
• Irrigation piping or other capital expenditures
• Graphic design/artwork
• Computers or word processing or publishing software
• Video or digital cameras
• Pavers, boardwalks, fences, benches or construction projects
• Salaries
• Fountains
• Storage or display cases
• Audio/visual equipment

Unbudgeted expenses

Purchases for items other than those specified in the line-item budget will require SWFWMD project manager approval before they are incurred. Unapproved expenditures are not reimbursable.