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Boston Area Gleaners, Inc.

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Waterbury LEAP

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Seacoast Area Renewable Energy Initiative

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News & Announcements

RootSkills 2013 – June 7 & 8

Don’t miss NEGEF’s annual grassroots retreat & skillsbuilding weekend! This year, RootSkills is taking place June 7th & 8th in Northwood, NH. Save the date!

2012 Annual Report

We’ve released our 2012 Annual Report and it’s full of descriptions of local efforts making collective change! Staying green, we’re only releasing our Annual Report online (it’s a 4.6MB file). Happy reading!

Social Media for your Community Group

As part of our RootSkills program, we’ve launched a workshop focused on helping groups use social media. Check out our Think Social Act Local resources and let us know what you think!

Events

2013 NEGEF RootSkills

WHEN: June 7 & 8
WHERE: Northwood, NH

Slow Living Summit

WHEN: June 5 – 7
WHERE: Brattleboro, VT

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Our Mission

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) seeks to energize and nurture long term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities. The Fund uses grantmaking, networking, and skills-building to fuel local activism and social change. Please read to learn more!

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We're sorry - your browser isn't fully compatible with our website.

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As part of our ongoing mission to foster grassroots growth throughout New England, NEGEF is developing a variety of web tools to better share news, events and resources. In addition, we're putting our grant program online, making it possible for groups to apply for grants and manage those applications on this site.

As a non-profit, we are especially budget conscious. In our desire to create an advanced platform within our limited budget, we have made the tough decision to only support up-to-date browsers.

You can download a Word file with NEGEF's application questions if you would like to apply for a grant.

Thanks for your understanding.