For county grant administrators

Grant collateral, ready to attach.

ClearPath's Civic Impact Framework produces verified, estimated, and directional outcomes — with the methodology visible and the confidence labels never stripped. We ship 5 grant-report templates and 2 pre-drafted narratives (EPA SWIFR + MPCA) that your grant administrator can pick up and inject scope into.

What ClearPath produces for a grant

Three artifacts, generated from your live catalog.

First — a PDF you can attach

A 5–10 page Grant Summary PDF.

Your team downloads it from the admin portal in one click. It's built from your live county data at the moment you export. Suitable to attach directly as an appendix to a federal, state, or foundation grant application. Includes the headline numbers, the methodology behind them, and the confidence label on every figure.

Second — a draft your grant officer can finish

Pre-drafted EPA SWIFR and MPCA narratives.

Two complete grant narrative drafts already written. Your grants administrator picks the open application round, fills in the scope and budget specific to your county, and is ready to submit. We keep these updated as the funder's language shifts cycle to cycle.

Third — honesty that survives the report

Confidence labels follow the numbers wherever they go.

Every metric we put in a grant report carries its label: Verified, Estimated, Directional, or Needs more data. A grant reviewer can trace any number back to where it came from. We will not let your team accidentally overstate what we can prove.

The five grant-report templates

Pre-mapped to the funders you'll apply to.

  1. 1
    EPA SWIFR (Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling)
    Federal — funded under the Inflation Reduction Act through the EPA's Recycling Infrastructure program. A complete narrative draft is on file.
  2. 2
    MPCA Environmental Assistance Grant
    State-level — Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Multiple rounds per year; recycling, organics, and contamination-prevention focus areas. A complete narrative draft is on file.
  3. 3
    National Association of Counties — Sustainable Communities
    Peer benchmarking against other counties' programs.
  4. 4
    USDA Rural Sustainability
    For rural-eligible counties. Same impact framework, different funding constraints.
  5. 5
    Your funder, your template
    Your grants office sends us the funder's required format and scoring criteria. We map our impact data into their language.
How the numbers are produced

Methodology a grant reviewer can audit.

  • EPA WARM model

    When we estimate pounds diverted from the landfill or CO₂ emissions avoided, we use EPA's Waste Reduction Model — the same model federal grant reviewers use. The math is shown alongside every estimated number.

  • Verified, Estimated, Directional, or Needs more data

    Every number in every grant report carries one of four labels: Verified (a resident reported back that they actually did what we recommended), Estimated (we did the math from observed activity using a published model), Directional (useful for trend, not a precise number), or Needs more data (we don't have enough yet to publish responsibly). Nothing ships without a label.

  • We never double-count

    If a single resident search led to multiple outcomes (a verdict, a feedback message, a confirmed action), only the strongest outcome is counted. No number is inflated by counting the same resident in multiple categories.

  • Your data stays your data

    Your county's impact numbers belong to your county. We never publish anything that could identify an individual resident, facility, or county without permission.

  • Environmental-justice overlay when you need it

    When your grant program requires an environmental-justice analysis, we can pair your participation map with EPA's public EJSCREEN demographic data. The overlay uses publicly-available demographic boundaries — no individual resident data leaves your county.

What we will not do

Bright lines that survive every grant report.

  • We will not publish a specific dollar-ROI claim until we have enough resident-confirmed outcomes to back it honestly.
  • We will not show numbers that would let anyone identify an individual resident, facility, or county.
  • We will not give you an 'estimated' number without showing the math behind it.
  • We will not mix promotional claims into a grant-credentialed report.
See the framework

Live impact summary at /trust.

The public Trust Dashboard surfaces the Civic Impact Framework's headline metrics against our pilot county data — with the confidence labels visible.

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