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Below are the 2008 NEGEF grantees listed by state and alphabetically. NEGEF staff is working to bring all the files for all its grant rounds (since 1996) online and to make them searchable. Stay tuned for updates!
Brass City Harvest, Inc. (Waterbury, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To construct an urban farm to empower disadvantaged youth and their mentors to work the farm and operate a farmers’ market on-site.
Connecticut Community Gardening Association (New Haven, CT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To create institutional capacity growth and outreach opportunities to enhance the database and to create ‘branding’ that will enhance the marketing and outreach to current and potential community garden programs CT.
http://www.ctcommunitygardening.org
CT Interfaith Power & Light: A project of IREJN (West Hartford, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To bring Pass It On Weatherization Education Rounds to CT. To track the follow-up installation and education thru the local church or synagogue, to bring the next, hands-on installation to the learning curve of our congregants in their homes.
http://www.ctipl.org
Elm City Cycling (Hamden, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To carry out three Bike Jamborees with/for New Haven youth in the year beginning July 1, to increase safety awareness and practice. Also to design, have printed, and distribute throughout New Haven 5,000 brochures about the accomplishments, activities and goals of Elm City Cycling.
http://www.elmcitycycling.org
New Haven Bike Collective (New Haven, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To salvage and resurrect unwanted bikes and provide them to the community through earn-a-bike and sweat-equity programs.
http://www.elmcitybikecollective.wetpaint.com
New Haven Land Trust (New Haven, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To fund general program expenses associated with the Community Gardening and non-curricular environmental programs.
http://www.newhavenlandtrust.org
Project Green Lawn Committee (Middletown, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To update and reprint a brochure for our Project Green Lawn educational campaign about the negative environmental and health impacts of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and alternative lawn care and landscaping practices.
http://www.cityofmiddletown.com
Scantic River Watershed Association (Somers, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To establish a volunteer managed and driven water quality monitoring project of the Scantic River.
http://www.scanticriverwatershed.org
Terra Firma Farm (Stonington, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To provide fresh, organic produce to people in need; to engage a diverse group of local youth in working, learning, and leading together; and to have participants learn first hand about sustainable agriculture, local food systems, and good nutrition.
http://www.terrafirmafarm.org
Wethersfield Interfaith Green Committee (Wethersfield, CT)
Grant Award: $500.00
To hold a town-wide “Green Summit II – Energy Fair” open to Wethersfield residents and surrounding towns to educate people of all ages about energy conservation measures to decrease energy costs and improve carbon footprints.
http://www.wethersfieldinterfaithgreencommittee.org
Androscoggin River Alliance (Lewiston, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To design a watershed map that depicts the recreational opportunities that currently exist along the Androscoggin and reunite fellow citizens to their home river.
http://www.cleanandroscoggin.org
Bayside Neighborhood Association (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To expand the Bayside community garden into a dynamic, multi-use space that uses food as a tool for increasing cultural understanding, increases participation in the garden, and increases residents’ exposure to locally grown, organic foods.
http://www.baysideneighborhood.org
Concerned Citizens Opposed to Long Pond Quarry (Bucksport, ME)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To secure the services of a hydrogeologist to assess the impact of a proposed blasting rock quarry to Long Pond, surrounding wetlands, streams and wells of nearby residents for the purpose of educating the members of the Town Planning Board, who are charged with the difficult decision of approving or rejecting a proposed rock quarry.
COOL Communities Bath & Beyond (Bath, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To complete a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for Bath (municipality and community) with help from a Bowdoin college intern and proven software designed to lay the groundwork for a City-sanctioned Energy Committee and to develop short-term and long-term climate action and smart energy plans.
http://www.coolmaine.org/
Cool Topsham (Topsham, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To complete a community energy audit for the Town of Topsham government, using ICLEI software and to carry out neighborhood meetings to reach out to community member on how to reduce energy consumption.
Deering Center Community Garden (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To establish a community garden and agricultural landscape to benefit the entire community by reclaiming unused city land, with the city’s approval.
Don’t Dump on ME (Lewiston, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To continue our efforts to encourage community involvement and to increase recycling. Also to perform and process costly lab results for air quality testing.
Food for Maine’s Future (Thorndike, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To support efforts to promote and build food independence in Maine through the building of strong connections between local farmers and their customers, making local food more accessible to Mainers of all incomes, reducing waste in our local food systems, extending the availability of local food into the winter, and raising awareness of the global impacts of purchasing decisions.
http://www.foodformainesfuture.org
Friends of the Mousam and Kennebunk Rivers (Kennebunk, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To organize a watershed conference to focus attention on two adjacent coastal watersheds on York County, Maine: the Kennebunk and Mousam. To launch a broad, grassroots watershed organization that will address many issues.
Kennebec Messalonskee Trails (Waterville, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To design and construct a connector trail from the 2-Cent Bridge to Benton Ave.
http://www.kmtrails.org
Land Association of Washington (Washington, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To help fund legal fees encountered in defending the Washington’s Planning Board’s decision permitting a quarry and defending their rejection of an asphalt plant, a concrete plant, and a rock crusher.
http://www.landassociationofwashington.org
Local Sprouts Co-operative and Community Building Collaborative (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To increase community alliances through providing opportunities for community members to access local and organic food, participate in sustainability workshops, and for youth and elders to engage together and eat local food lunches.
http://www.localsprouts.org
Lots to Gardens (Lewiston, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To do the Hot Tamales program, a focused time where kids learn about the science of gardening and importance of healthy eating.
http://www.lotstogardens.org
Mahoosuc Land Trust: Trails Committee (Bethel, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To construct a .5 mile trail through the “Gateway” area east of Bethel, Maine. This will serve as a critical extension to the existing 1.2 mile recreational pathway, providing significantly greater total trail length and enabling further growth of the trail network.
http://www.mahoosuc.org
Maine Interfaith Power and Light (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To host three regional networking events and a conference to expand involvement of Maine’s 1,300 faith communities in the grassroots campaign to address the causes of global climate change in Maine.
http://www.meipl.org
Pemaquid Watershed Association (Damariscotta, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To establish an interpretive trail and trail guide focused on forest management at PWA’s 40-acre Bearce-Allen Preserve.
http://www.pemaquidwatershed.org
Pleasant River Watershed Council (Columbia Falls, ME)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To provide community outreach to complement efforts of project partners working to identify and mitigate water quality issues impacting salmon survival of endangered wild Atlantic salmon.
http://www.mainesalmonrivers.org
Portland Buy Local (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To prepare and disseminate a study that will analyze the market share and economic impact of Greater Portland’s independent businesses and estimate the job and other benefits to the region’s economy of shifting more spending to locally owned businesses and to products that are grown and produced locally.
http://www.portlandbuylocal.org
Portland Green Streets (Portland, ME)
*Grant Award: $1,800.00
To fund a stipend for the lead organizer and for materials and fees to promote the project of improved choices regarding transportation.
http://www.portlandgreenstreets.org
Protect Our Water and Wildlife Resources (Limerick, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To control and/or prevent any and all large scale extraction of groundwater from towns in the Western area of York County, Maine; to encourage all towns in the area to develop strong groundwater ordinances; and to join together with other conservation-minded groups in defining, protecting, and preserving flora, fauna, earth, and waters of this area.
http://www.defendingwaterinmaine.org/POWWR/
Royal River Conservation Trust (Yarmouth, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To help fund the Royal River Youth Conservation Corps for a fifth consecutive season of implementing water quality and habitat improvement projects throughout the Royal River watershed.
http://www.rrct.org
School Ground Greening Coalition (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To create a “Green Team” of people who can be called upon to help schools develop and implement school ground greening projects, and to develop a School Ground Greening Guide for reference and resource information.
http://www.trails.org
Stonington Fisheries Alliance (Stonington, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To fund fifteen local Zone C fishermen attending the Fourth Annual Collaborative Lobster Enhancement Evaluation Workshop hosted by the Penobscot East Resource Center.
http://www.penobscoteast.org/sfa.asp
Veggies4All Garden Project (Thorndike, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To produce fresh, organically grown, and nutritious produce for residents who have the least access to healthy foods through sharing skills with residents to grow, prepare, and preserve healthy, whole foods.
http://www.veggies4all.org
Western Foothills Land Trust (Norway, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To establish a 6+ km system of non-motorized multi-use trails on our 150 acre Roberts Farm Preserve site, starting with community stakeholder meetings and design review.
http://www.wfltmaine.org
Western Mountains Alliance (Farmington, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To support outreach and lay training on home improvements for energy conservation in remote western Maine communities by providing workshops, developing resources, and educating homeowners about the personal and community impacts of energy conservation.
http://www.westernmountainsalliance.org
Ashby Land Trust (Ashby, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To allow the Land Trust to continue assisting landowners to protect their properties and to secure the permanent protection of over 1,500 acres of ecologically important forestland properties through the USDA Forest Legacy program.
http://www.ashbylandtrust.org
Billerica Power Plant.org (Tewksbury, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To continue to inform and educate residents about the six stack power plant that is under consideration for siting.
http://www.billericapowerplant.org
Boston Area Gleaners, Inc. (Waltham, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To pay a consultant to multiply the grassroots grants by finding other support out there for the gleaning project, so as to create a sustainable non-profit program to glean/harvest nutritious and fresh produce for food pantries and shelters.
http://www.bostonareagleaners.org
Cape Ann Energy Network (Gloucester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To host six high profile events throughout the year that will raise awareness and garner support for other CAEN efforts such as the 2020/2012 campaign and a regional plan that will support municipal action to reduce community and regional carbon footprints.
Cape Ann Farmers’ Market (Gloucester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To expand market programs to include education, children’s activities, and cooking demonstrations.
http://www.sustainablecapeann.org
Cedar Swamp Conservation Trust (Westborough, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To continue the Water Quality Program and to support costs involved with the appeals.
http://www.csctrust.org
Citizens for a Better Brockton (Brockton, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To further fund printings, mailings, public meetings, phone messaging service, and website support regarding the siting of a power plant.
http://www.stopthepower.org
Citizens United for a Healthy Future (Florence, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To protect the Barnes aquifer by stopping the Northampton Regional Landfill expansion.
http://www.savingparadise.info
Climate Change Action Brookline (Brookline, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To work with parents of school-age children to increase awareness and activism around climate change and sustainability.
http://www.climatechangeactionbrookline.org
Concerned Citizens of Russell (Russell, MA)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To prevent the construction of a 50 MW biomass incinerator, permitted by our ZBA, in proximity to neighborhoods and our elementary school.
http://www.concernedcitizensofrussell.org
Dennisport Revitalization Committee (South Dennis, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To begin the outreach phase of a design charrette, which will be held in the spring of 2009 and which will identify creative, practical, community-driven solutions to conditions that hinder the sustainable revitalization of Dennisport village.
http://dennisportrevitalizationcommittee.wordpress.com/
Environmental Advocates for Massachusetts (Lakeville, MA)
Grant Award: $500.00
To hold the second annual Green Fair.
http://www.teams-on-web.org
Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (Worcester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To produce waste vegetable oil biodiesel on a volunteer basis.
http://www.exprisoners.org
Friends of Prospect Lake (North Egremont, MA)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To clean lake frontages, including selecting and planting vegetation to absorb nutrients and filter out pollutants; and to educate the lake community in lake management tools.
Friends of the Blue Hills (Milton, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To protect Indian Line Farm by reaching out to landowners and stakeholders to build a network or people who appreciate the land and know how and want to protect it.
http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org
Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation (Melrose, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To fund continued ongoing community outreach and legal efforts to protect the DCR Fells Reservation from environmental impacts of an over-scaled housing and office development project.
http://www.fells.org
Great Barrington Trails and Greenways Project (Great Barrington, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To develop a public outreach program that includes: a monthly e-newsletter, a vision map, community walks, and meetings with community groups to promote broader participation.
Green Barrington (Great Barrington, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To implement an anti-idling campaign, starting with schools and Town Hall, community centers, houses of worship, and businesses and a community-wide awareness campaign.
Green Northampton (Northampton, MA)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To implement a series of 12 public programs, demonstrations, and workshops that increase awareness of climate change and natural resource depletion and empower citizens to make lifestyle changes to make our community sustainable.
http://www.greennorthampton.org
HealthLink, Inc. (Swampscott, MA)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To monitor emissions from the power plant stacks and fires on the coal pile.
http://www.healthlink.org
Manos Unidas (Pittsfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To host “Earth in Our Hands” workshops for children and youth that seek to instill earth-centered values, hands-on sustainable agriculture teaching, and community interconnections.
http://www.unitedmanos.blogspot.com
Many Hands Sustainability Center, Inc. (Barre, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To introduce former prisoners from the Almost Home program to various activities on the farm in a consistent way.
http://www.manyhandssustainabilitycenter.org
Martins Pond Association/Reclamation Study Committee (North Reading, MA)
Grant Award: $734.00
To increase community wildlife activism by mentoring youth* (and their parents) through a hands-on workshop about the benefits of creating and preserving wildlife habitat.
http://www.martinspond.org
Massachusetts Coalition for Clean Air (Fall River, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To oppose the conversion of a coal-fired power plant in Somerset, MA, to coal gasification technology.
Meetinghouse Farm (West Barnstable, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To fund the conversion of 1500 sq. ft. of space in a 3000 sq ft greenhouse to a usable space for meetings, classes and lectures.
No Quarry in Berkley (Berkley, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To continue to inform citizens, gather research, obtain expert advice, and retain representation.
http://www.noquarryinberkley.org
Northeast Organic Farmers Assoc. MA (Barre, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To expand our alternative transportation by investing in bicycles and trailers so our youth and staff can haul our vegetables to market throughout the city. Also to invest in colorful, fun, and challenging signs for the backs of trailers and t-shirts to tell people what we are doing and how they can get involved.
http://www.nofamass.org
North County Land Trust, Inc. (Fitchburg, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To help the city of Fitchburg protect its northern water supply watershed and its public drinking water, and to help landowners in the watershed keep their land open by educating them about land conservation and helpful tax incentives.
http://www.northcountylandtrust.org
North Quabbin Energy (Athol, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To sponsor two workshops to teach people how to make interior thermal window inserts, as a way of encouraging area residents and groups to become more involved and ‘hands-on’ in weatherizing their homes and thinking about energy conservation.
http://www.northquabbinenergy.org
Peace Works! (New Bedford, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To expand efforts in the Maxfield City Garden by branching out into the community and becoming a nursery for civic and community projects/events all over the city of New Bedford and provide positive opportunities for youth.
People of Ayer Concerned About the Environment (Ayer, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To continue working with LSP to oversee continued remediation of the 211 West Main Street site.
Pleasant Street Community Garden (Greenfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To begin implementing a landscape design by planting a hedge on the east edge to improve entry, and create a nursery of perennial vegetables and fruit as a demonstration site spawning more community and home gardens.
Policy Development, Inc. (Amherst, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To bring together a coalition of concerned citizens and grassroots groups to stop the building of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Hadley, MA. Seek to raise awareness about the negative impacts of sprawl and ways that towns and cities can achieve sustainable economic development and growth.
http://www.policydevelopment.org
Rachel’s Table of the Jewish Federation of Greater Springfield (Springfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To promote a fresh food recovery effort, Helping Harvest, by rescuing good quality produce from being wasted at local farms and providing the hungry with the opportunity to eat healthy food. Also to empower local youth to perform a good deed and learn about making sustainable and healthy food choices.
http://www.rachelstable.org/
Residents for Alternatives to Trashing Southbridge (Southbridge, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To gather information, cover legal services, and do public relations regarding the potential expansion of the Southbridge landfill.
http://www.southbridgedump.org
RideBuzz (Amherst, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To pay web developers to ensure consistent and timely delivery of needed improvements to the RideBuzz rideshare system.
http://www.ridebuzz.org
Safe and Green Campaign (Colrain, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To encourage town residents and elected officials to speak out publicly against Vermont Yankee’s requested 20-year license extension, and support both safe and green energy alternatives and the right of the people, especially those affected, to determine their own energy future.
Shawsheen River Watershed Association, Inc. (Tewksbury, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To fund the removal and proper disposal of man-made trash that is in the water or on the banks of the Shawsheen River. Focus is on previously bypassed larger items that require additional equipment, logistics and expense for proper removal and disposal.
http://www.shawsheen.org
Squannacook River Rail Trail Committee (Townsend, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To mail informational flyers to each mailing address in Townsend, sharing news of our progress and urging townspeople to continue their support.
http://www.squannacookriverrailtrail.org
Stone Soup Artist and Activist Collective and Community Resource Center (Worcester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To conduct educational programming and outreach to local residents and greenspace advocates in the Main South community, an underserved area in Worcester. Topics will include urban composting, vermiculture, garden development, planning, and fabricating affordable energy efficient window insulating.
http://www.stonesoupworcester.org
Sustainable Nantucket (Nantucket, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To create and publish a “How To” kit as an educational tool for our Local First Campaign.
http://www.sustainablenantucket.org
Sustainable Scituate (Scituate, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To provide educational resources, outreach and help with legislative reforms in support if the Town’s Wind Turbine feasibility study. Encourage environmental stewardship through distributing CFLs, low-flow plumbing services, reusable bags, earth-friendly packaging and anti-idling laws.
Sustainable Weymouth (Weymouth, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To purchase a bulk order of 50 Low Carbon program books and to cover costs from the site reservation and early advertising for the Weymouth Green Efficiency Expo event.
Sustainable Winchester (Winchester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To start up a farmers’ market for Winchester, MA.
http://www.sustainablewinchester.org
Upton Land Stewardship Committee (Upton, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To begin preparing a 1-acre site for a community garden.
Valley Community Land Trust (Greenfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To attract new members through relevant, educational workshops, an improved website, and a publicity campaign.
http://www.vclt.org
Waste Watchers (Shrewsbury, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To provide social and informational support through meetings, a manual and a website for citizens who wish to decrease their use of fossil fuels.
http://www.watchthewaste.org
Watchdogs for an Environmentally Safe Town (Westminster, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To protect and preserve the character and natural resources for the present and future residents of Westminster and to lend assistance to communities requiring guidance and tools. To continue watch-dogging effort throughout region.
Weir River Watershed Association (Hull, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To open the Estuary Center as a “green” demonstration building.
http://www.weirriver.org
Worcester Earn-a-Bike (Worcester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To organize weekly summer bike rides to visit local food projects that will promote local, organic food as part of a sustainable lifestyle. Also to document these rides on video for distribution on the internet.
http://www.worcesterearnabike.org
Worcester Roots Project (Worcester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To carry out lead poisoning prevention education, outreach, theater, soil testing, and lead-safe landscaping with teenagers through the Toxic Soil Busters program.
http://www.worcesterroots.org
Barrington Energy Task Force (Barrington, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To educate Barrington residents on methods to reduce energy use; to continue our compact fluorescent promotional campaign; and to conduct energy conservation workshops, work with municipal government, and distribute printed education materials.
http://www.barringtonenergy.org
Deerfield Energy Committee (Deerfield, NH)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To support Community Energy Action consisting of a series of 3 workshops for homeowners on: Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy. Following workshops are specific activities designed to help homeowners increase the energy efficiency of their homes while lowering carbon emissions and costs.
Derry Rail Trail Alliance (Derry, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To help improve the community of Derry, NH primarily through the completion of a multi-use recreational path along the abandoned rail bed of the old Manchester & Lawrence Railway.
http://www.derryrailtrail.org
Dover’s Cassilly Community Garden (Dover, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To purchase necessary capital to build and maintain the garden, including a shed, rain barrels and wagons.
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/dovergarden
East Kingston Energy Committee (East Kingston, NH)
Grant Award: $500.00
To achieve 20% participation (175 families) in the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge, and there by reducing our towns emissions by 1,750,000 pounds.
Five Rivers Conservation Trust (Concord, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To enlist active volunteers as “Town Reps” to serve as special liaisons between Five Rivers and the central New Hampshire communities that our organization serves.
http://www.5rct.org
Fremont Energy Committee (Fremont, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To install photovoltaic solar panels at town Safety Complex to initially augment electrical power requirements.
http://www.fremont.nh.gov/fnhgenergycomm1.shtml
Gedakina, Inc. (Milford, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To support Gedakina’s Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) initiatives, History, Language and Environmental Justice and Restoring the Sacred, experiential learning programs for Native American youth that seeks to re-establish the relationship of our people to the environment and to each other, and to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for the young people in the region.
http://www.gedakina.org
Gilford Energy Committee (Gilford, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To perform initial research of our community energy use and emissions with ICLEI software which will enable appropriate prioritization of energy saving actions. Also to aid in our initial community outreach and education program which will include: anti-idling campaign; change a light bulb campaign; join the NH Carbon Challenge; and website design/creation.
http://www.gilfordnh.org/Public_Documents/GilfordNH_BComm/Energy%20Committee
Global Awareness Local Action (Wolfesboro, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To finance professional nonprofit consultation on membership development, business planning, organizational design, and capital campaign management in order to effectively manage multiple projects, including a farmers’ market, community garden, study circle, film series, buy wisely-locally campaign, and homesteading workshops.
http://www.galacommunity.org
Green Mountain Conservation Corps (Effingham, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To support a graduate student from the University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning program for: inventory and map of potential contamination sources; conducting best management practices survey; and preparing a report for towns on greatest threats to Ossipee Aquifer.
http://www.gmcg.org
Loon Pond Owners Association (Pittsfield, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To purchase water sampling equipment for Loon Pond in Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Millen Lake Association (Washington, NH)
Grant Award: $650.00
To acquire water testing equipment so that we may continue to be part of the Department of Environmental Services Volunteer Lake Assessment Program, encourage new volunteers to the program and facilitate water testing on Millen Pond.
Mount Washington Valley Bike Path (Intervale, NH)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To prepare and distribute a prospectus description and visual media of how a bike path will benefit the Mount Washington Valley community. Bring together stakeholders to raise level of awareness and determine action steps to make the project a success.
Nottingham Tea Party (West Nottingham, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To defray some of the costs of raising awareness among the townspeople of Nottingham regarding the Nottingham Water Rights and Self-Governance Ordinance and the future of the Nottingham community.
Plymouth Energy Committee (Plymouth, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To conduct a study in order to recommend best practices for greenhouse gas reduction using ICLEI software.
http://www.plymouth-nh.org/node/512
Rye Energy Committee (Rye, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To reduce the carbon footprint of the Town of Rye, NH through education and awareness, review of municipal energy use and energy related projects.
http://web.me.com/ojgrote/Rye_Energy_Committee/Welcome.html
Scarboro Ridge Association (Freedom, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To preserve for public access a trail in Freedom, NH to be known as the Scarboro Ridge Trail, to be confined to low impact activities such as hiking and snowshoeing and to be maintained in its natural state.
Seacoast Eat Local (Rye, NH)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To provide a day-long workshop for farmers to build capacity for increased off-season production for 09/10 winter farmers market and to provide outreach to community members prior to and during the 09/10 market season to generate support and enrich consumer experience.
http://www.seacoasteatlocal.org
Strafford Rivers Conservancy, Inc. (Dover, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To continue the public outreach program consisting of monthly walks and workshops designed to feature conservation lands and their values as well as teach valuable natural resource skills.
http://www.straffordriversconservancy.org
Town of Sanbornton Energy Committee (Sanborton, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To provide low-income households with programmable thermostats, installation or training or installation and operation if necessary.
http://www.sanbornton-nh.gov/Public_Documents/SanborntonNH_BComm/Energy
Town of Tamworth (Tamworth, NH)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To provide fellow residents with energy reduction awareness information, demonstration of a lending process for 3 power analyzer/usage meters, and one free energy star qualified CFL bulb with NH DES disposal instructions.
http://www.tamworthnh.org
Aquidneck Island Watershed Council (Newport, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To form the organization by beginning a series of public forums regarding the protecting the watershed, including tours and cleanup efforts, designating sensitive areas and monitoring decisions and activities affecting the watershed.
Channing Memorial Church Green Congregation Committee (Newport, RI)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To develop a program for helping low-income homeowners and renters to make their homes more energy efficient by compiling simple “kits” to weatherize their quarters, literature with energy tips, and referral options for subsidized energy audits and installations.
http://www.channingchurch.org
Early Street Community Garden (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To build a community garden in an empty lot in the Southside of Providence that will enable 35 low-income families to grow fresh, pesticide and lead-free produce.
Elmwood Neighborhood Association (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To continue revitalization work at the Locust Grove Cemetery.
Kickemuit River Council (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To republish the ‘Caring for Your Septic System’ brochure with updated septic regulations from RI Department of Environment and to mail it to approximately 450 homeowners with septic systems on the fresh & salt water Kickemuit river to improve water quality.
http://www.kickemuitriver.org
Manton Ave. Community Garden (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To make modifications to our garden that will create healthier gardening conditions.
Methodist Community Gardens (Portsmouth, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To unite three Methodist Churches with a local service agency and University to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. Youth will be guided in learning fundamentals of gardening, harvesting, distributing and working with neighbors.
New Dawn Earth Center (Cumberland, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To implement 15 environmental education programs to inform and help participants reduce their carbon footprint. Also for the installation of cable wiring for our office so that we can effectively use the computer to facilitate communication and implement our programs.
http://www.newdawnearthcenter.org
Outdoor Leadership and Environmental Education Program (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To design and implement student-organized and run Green Action Plan projects for high school OLEEP participants. Funds will support in-depth study of an environmental issue as well as provide resources to design and implement the projects.
http://www.swearercenter.brown.edu
Paradise Valley Neighborhood Association (Middletown, RI)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To fight a proposed development and to hopefully impact the outcome by making our case at town or if needed, state level based on environmental issues and zoning issues with the help of legal council as well as additional consultants as needed.
Peace Dale Neighborhood Revitalization Committee (Peace Dale, RI)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To hire a project coordinator to help form and steer committees and to engage the community through the Peace Dale web site, community meetings, and quarterly news updates.
Preserve Portsmouth (Portsmouth, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To work on getting one lot in town rezoned from commercial to residential, which will need another dozen or so hours from our attorney.
http://www.preserveportsmouth.org
Rhode Island Blue ways Alliance (North Kingstown, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
For information and materials for PaddleRI 2008, a series of events that will launch RI’s water trail network.
Rhode Island Interfaith Power & Light (Wickford, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To perform outreach in Rhode Island and SE Massachusetts among interfaith congregations.
http://www.riipl.org
Seeds of Hope (East Greenwich, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To establish a program to teach youth and adults about organic gardening, sustainable agriculture, water quality and conservation and safe gardening methods.
South Kingstown Community Garden (Peace Dale, RI)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To purchase the supplies needed to install deer fencing and gates in order to protect a newly established community garden site.
http://www.jonnycakecenter.org/hungertaskforce/communitygarden.html
Stop Trashing Our Place (Cumberland, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To stop proposed construction and demolition facilities from being located in a recovering I-1 light industrial superfund site.
Valley Alliance for Smart Growth (North Smithfield, RI)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To pay for expert fees and public outreach during the upcoming Dowling Village Preliminary Plan hearings for Phases 2-4.
http://www.valleyallianceri.org
West Broadway Neighborhood Association (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To double the number of neighborhood families gardening together at the WBNA Bridgham Street Community Garden by adding 18 new garden beds.
http://www.wbna.org
Young Voices (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To raise awareness and action in urban youth members around the issue of global warming. Goals are to help urban, low income youth of color see relevance of environmental degradation and climate change and support them to create action steps to reduce consumption in their own lives and community.
http://www.youngvoicesri.org
Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) (Bristol, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To gather citizens from around Addison County to celebrate our place and successes, collectively create a vision of our community in 2020 and then map the transition to get there.
http://www.acornvt.org
Ad Hoc Sherman Hollow Neighborhood Association (Huntington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To create a case statement and map in order to engage the people of Huntington and neighboring towns to protect Sherman Hollow valley’s wildlife, education, and recreation values.
Bennington Energy Committee (Bennington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To develop and sponsor two weatherization workshops for homeowners.
http://www.benningtonenergy.org
Bennington Interfaith Food and Fuel Fund (Bennington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To train energy mentors and provide energy awareness education, assisting families in installing home energy saving devices.
Black River Action Team (Springfield, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To continue and expand a series of experiential workshops called WaterWorx in the Black River watershed.
http://www.blackriveractionteam.org
Brattleboro Climate Protection (Brattleboro, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To develop renewable sources of heating and electric generation for the town, improve energy efficiency and use of renewable energy in town and school buildings, and increase public education efforts about energy and sustainability issues.
Brighton Community Forum (Island Pond, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To support networking and organizational costs to work with ad hoc community groups to implement visioning goals to renovate the town park, to restore the historic town hall, to bring arts & theater to the area, to develop a bicycle trail system, and to establish an active Chamber of Commerce.
Center for Biobased Economy/Center for an Agricultural Economy (Greensboro, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To enhance community participation in the local food system and support area food security by increasing community outreach concerning the benefits of community gardening. Emphasis will be placed on encouraging the participation of at-risk households.
http://www.hardwickagriculture.org
Colchester Land Trust (Colchester, VT)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To purchase supplies and equipment to establish the infrastructure for the first community garden in Colchester.
East Montpelier Energy Committee (East Montpelier, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To engage town residents in energy and cost saving measures that will minimize the town’s overall use of non-renewable fuels.
First Branch Sustainability Project (Chelsea, VT)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To educate and encourage conservation and sustainability with a focus on economic benefits for a broad population base with a Sustainability Fair.
Franklin County Senior Center (St. Albans, VT)
Grant Award: $750.00
To expand the present garden by 25% and to build raised beds so seniors with physical disabilities can work in the garden.
Friends of Burlington Gardens (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To fund the Welcoming Community Gardens Program and recruit, train, and support the efforts of local community garden organizers as they catalyze and cultivate interest in community gardening as a healthy and environmentally friendly way to participate in the local food system. FBG will work with organizers to establish three new community and neighborhood gardens which will serve as models for Burlington’s Climate Action Plan.
http://www.burlingtongardens.org
Friends of the Worcester Range (Stowe, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To deliver site-specific, citizen-led, technical assistance to six communities designed to empower them to collectively define and pursue a broad-based, landscape-scale conservation and community enhancement initiative in the Worcester Range.
The Giving Garden (Norwich, VT)
Grant Award: $500.00
To bring together the members of the Coop Community Garden with a picnic table that will encourage people to enjoy the space together.
Green Mountain CarShare/Car Share Vermont (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To support start-up activities associated with developing a community-based, nonprofit car-sharing service for the greater Burlington, VT, area. Funds will be used for organizing and outreach purposes, including developing a logo and brand identity, and producing necessary outreach materials.
http://www.carsharevt.org/
Grow Team O.N.E. (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To provide Archibald Neighborhood Garden gardeners with the resources they need to grow their own produce; to build community among gardeners; and to create a welcoming gardening space for all ONE residents through community workshops, communal herb beds, and expanded outreach efforts in the neighborhood.
http://www.growteamvt.com/
Hardwick Energy Action Resource Team (East Hardwick, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To hire a local community coordinator to help staff HEART project activities including engaging and involving Hardwick area residents and schools to participate in town-wide and the greater community energy saving initiatives.
Hartland Community Garden Group (Hartland, VT)
Grant Award: $830.00
To start a community garden in Hartland.
Hogback Mountain Conservation Association (Brattleboro, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To develop materials in support of a capital campaign.
http://www.hogback.org
Lamoille Valley Year Round Farmers/Artisans Market (Morristown, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To create a year round location where farmers and artisans can sell VT goods.
Londonderry Energy Committee (South Londonderry, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To fund a preliminary hydroelectric site assessment of the Williams dam located on the West River in Londonderry, VT.
http://www.londonderryvt.org/Energy.html
Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Coalition (MAGWAG) (Middlebury, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To create, distribute, and publicize “no-idling” signs at key town idling locations this summer and fall.
http://www.middlebury.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={5F25A1F5-AE12-497F-964E-A6897853987B}
Northeast Animal Power and Field Days (Randolph, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To host an event highlighting the use of draft animal power, offering equipment demonstrations, workshops, networking, and providing a facilitated learning process for individuals seeking information, mentors, and examples of sustainable farming, forestry, and energy conservation.
http://www.animalpowerfielddays.org
Orleans-Northern-Essex Healthy Community Coalition (Newport, VT)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To buy materials for Community Garden Initiatives in Newport and Barton where land has been secured for these projects.
http://www.groups.google.com/group/one_healthy_community
Pit Crew (East Middlebury, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To offset costs of hiring expert reviews of acoustics, botanical, traffic, and child safety issues related to an application to expand a sand and gravel operation in East Middlebury.
Post Oil Solutions (Dummerston, VT)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To hire a part-time Community Garden Coordinator as we plan for the third year of our community garden project.
http://www.postoilsolutions.org
Reinventing the Meal (Windsor, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To develop a community food kitchen program where economically disadvantaged individuals and groups will be able to prepare and preserve foods to sustain themselves throughout the year from local and regional seasonally produced products.
http://www.reinventing.org
ReStore Resources Unlimited (Montpelier, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To hold a canvas tote bag awareness and education campaign.
http://www.therestore.org
Richmond Climate Action Committee (Richmond, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To build our organization and local community support through a series of small projects.
http://www.richmondclimateaction.net
Route 2-Coburn Quarry Citizens’ Alliance (Plainfield, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To support fundraising and organizational capacity development in order to intervene in regulatory proceedings (Act 250) on the expansion of US Route 2 adjacent to the Marshfield Reservoir, and to protect the Coburn Road Quarry swimming hole from being filled in as a wetland mitigation/compensation site.
Siskin Ecological Adventures (East Charleston, VT)
Grant Award: $500.00
To reduce the amount of recyclable material entering our area’s solid waste stream and also reduce the amount of common household hazardous wastes being used and/or disposed of improperly.
http://www.siskinea.org
Smart Growth Bristol (Bristol, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To educate the public via newsletter distribution, and to do a full-page newspaper advertisement around the Act 250 hearings.
St. Johnsbury Works (St. Johnsbury, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To fund material and supplies to prepare a centrally-located community garden plot and money to communicate to the community about this first community garden near downtown St. Johnsbury.
http://www.discoverstjvt.com
Stowe Climate Action Network (Stowe, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To build organizational capacity and fund a series of initial projects that raise awareness and build momentum for this initiative. These projects include a municipal energy and carbon emissions audit, a home energy audit workshop, a light bulb and idling campaign, and participation in the update of the Stowe Town Plan.
http://www.groups.google.com/group/stowe-can
Sustainable Woodstock (Woodstock, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To host a Future Search conference to bring stakeholders together to create a common agenda and commit to an action plan to address climate change in the community.
Town of Marshfield Energy and Climate Change Committee (Marshfield, VT)
Grant Award: $500.00
To purchase electrical meters and a blower door package, which will be loaned to residents under the oversight and with instruction of their use by the Marshfield Energy and Climate Change Committee.
http://www.town.marshfield.vt.us
Transit Advocates VT (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To decouple funding for transit in Chittenden County from the property tax through education and outreach to people in the county.
http://www.localmotion.org
Vermont Farm to School (Westfield, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To support a new SPROUTS summer program at five sites in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, bringing together students, parents, and community members to teach basic gardening skills, increase awareness about regional food systems, provide the community with a source of fresh, local food, and build strong community connections.
http://www.vtfarmtoschool.org
Vermont Interfaith Power and Light (Richmond, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To redesign our website, adding capacity and content so the Administrator will be able to make basic changes, so that the website serves as a clearinghouse of information about what Vermont’s faith communities are doing to save energy and use it more efficiently.
http://www.vtipl.org
Vermont Organized Communities Against Landfills (Williston, VT)
Grant Award: $800.00
To continue the campaign to stop the proposed 66-acre landfill in Williston, and to continue the message to residents of Chittenden County on ways they can improve their recycling, composting, and re-use of materials.
http://www.dontdumponwilliston.org
Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative (Montpelier, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To reach out to middle-upper income homeowners at farmer’s markets, set up a more professional website, and solicit participation in a pilot project in Addison County, which aims to help Vermonters transition towards pellet-burning heating systems to replace or supplement oil burning heating systems.
http://www.biomassvt.pbwiki.com
Winooski Department of Recreation and Community Wellness (Winooski, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To expand and diversify the city of Winooski’s Farmers’ Market.
Winooski Thresher Co-op (East Montpelier, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To start up a local, membership-based thresher co-op to collectively own and maintain a bean/grain thresher and winnower for use by home gardeners and small organic farmers.
Waterbury LEAP (Waterbury Center, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To fund the second Waterbury Energy Efficiency and Global Warming Rally, to provide materials for a community energy savings contest, and to help develop a logo and purchase a banner to generate greater awareness at public events.