Below are the 2010 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!
Bethlehem Conservation Commission (Bethlehem, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To model organic gardening practices in Bethlehem’s first community garden, to promote the physical and mental health of participants through productive exercise, community cooperation and sharing; to inspire residents to reduce their carbon footprint and dependence on costly fruits and vegetables by engaging in the production of lower cost, locally grown alternatives.
Compassion Corps (Hamden, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To augment the Fair Haven Food Pantry’s supply of non-perishable staple food items with fresh, local, community grown produce through two basic components: a community development component with coordinated community voluntee days and garden events, and a food production component where food is grown to benefit the poor and marginalized in our community.
http://www.compassioncorpsonline.com
Fairfield County Bike-Ped Alliance (Stamford, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To implement community-based projects proposed at the recent county-wide bike-ped summit, the Alliance will host community hearing sessions for the Stamford section of the proposed multi-use Merritt Parkway Trail as well as mark and GPS map an interim Merritt Parkway hiking path.
Hill/City Point Neighborhood Action Group Inc. (New Haven, CT)
Grant Award: $700.00
To offer community members an opportunity in creating a Better Quality of Life for the neighborhood through planting and environmental education.
Judea Garden (Washington, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To create a gravity fed irrigation system consisting of irrigation tubing, valves, tanks and soaker hoses on a garden plot of approximately 0.25 acre, in a field with no electricity or local water supply.
http://www.judeagarden.org
Liberty Safe Haven Springside Garden (New Haven, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To build a cold frame that will extend the growing season of the garden with the goal for the garden to produce its own seedlings, for the garden’s homeless volunteers to have year-round opportunities for participation, and for the garden to defray running costs through the sale of surplus seedlings.
http://www.newhavenlandtrust.org/gardens/liberty-save-haven-springside-garden
Litchfield Energy Task Force (Litchfield, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To educate and empower members of local faith communities on energy conservation, energy efficiency and clean renewable energy through This Old House of Worship.
http://www.litchfieldenergytaskforce.org
North Stamford Concerned Citizens for the Environment (Stamford, CT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To ensure that the City of Stamford conducts a proper, professional investigation of the extent of contamination of area drinking wells.
http://www.scofieldtown.info
P’nai Or Gardeners (West Hartford, CT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To create and sustain a flourishing community garden on a busy suburban street and have it be a focal point for community building and gardening education with the intent to model scalable community gardens in a suburban setting.
http://www.jewishrenewalct.org
Sow Green Danbury (Danbury, CT)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To increase number of gardeners from diverse communities throughout Danbury including local organizations and churches through brochures; to expand growing area to increase number of plots; to build a shed with incorporated rain water collection systems.
http://www.sowgreendanbury.org
Westport Community Garden (Westport, CT)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To construct a fence around the current Westport Community Garden and the adjacent land on to which we are planning to expand; to amend soil conditions on the expanded garden area in order to make them viable garden plots.
http://www.westportgardens.org
Chisolm Trails Committee (Auburn, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To build on the initial work of the Chisholm Trails steering committee by developing marketing materials that would be distributed in area businesses, through town-based efforts, and in the local schools, focusing on the construction of a bicycle and pedestrian trail that would connect the town of Jay schools to the Livermore Falls schools, with the historic Otis Mill at the center.
Collins Pond Improvement Association (Windham, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To reduce the infestation in Collins Pond of the non-native invasive aquatic plan Hybrid Milfoil using a Diver Assisted Suction Harvester.
East Pond Association (Smithfield, ME)
Grant Award: $500.00
To develop and utilize the capacity to provide Invasive Plant Patrol services for East Pond.
http://eastpond.org
Friends of Sears Island (Searsport, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To complete a natural resource inventory of the 601 acre conservation easement located on Sears Island in order to identify sensitive ecological and environmental areas before proceeding with trail and site development.
http://www.friendsofsearsisland.com
High Peaks Alliance (Phillips, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To enlist local support and help in creating a planning tool that will depict recreational opportunities and lay the foundation for a future coordinated multi-trail network, and for conservation activities in the High Peaks region.
http://highpeaksalliance.wordpress.com
Kennebec Estuary Clam Flat Working Group (Lewiston, ME)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To reduce and eliminate malfunctioning septic systems that affect clam flats in coastal Maine.
http://www.androscogginwed.net
Maine Partners for Cool Communities (Portland, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To launch Green Sneakers, a highly visible, door-to-door neighborhood campaign that will enlist and train local volunteer teams to bring weatherization and energy efficiency technologies, information and opportunities to reduce residential energy use.
http://www.coolmaine.org
North Pond Association (Skowhegan, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To fund Courtesy Boat Inspectors at the boat launch to prevent introduction of invasive plants and to establish a buffer planting program to buffer the shoreline.
http://www.northpond.net
Pearson’s Town Farm (Standish, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To expand the current outreach program, to meet the needs of the elderly and disables and to work more closely with the local food pantries through the addition of the Food Pantry Garden.
http://www.pearsonstown.blogspot.com
Pemaquid Watershed Association (Damariscotta, ME)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To support an Education Coordinator in leading a comprehensive 4-module education program focusing on pollution prevention and watershed awareness.
http://www.pemaquidwatershed.org
Saco Community Garden (Saco, ME)
Grant Award: $500.00
To create a garden following organic garden practices, provide affordable garden plots for growing healthy food and flowers, support a community of gardeners and promote a green and sustainable Saco.
http://www.sacomaine.org/departments/parksrec/community_garden.shtml
Save Our Water (Kennebunk, ME)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To further educate citizens about the importance and vulnerability of our water resources in York County and Maine.
http://www.soh2o.org
Waldoboro Conservation Commission (Waldoboro, ME)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To develop a forest, agriculture and natural resource inventory and stewardship plan for Quarry Hill, a 320 acre property owned and managed by the Town of Waldoboro.
http://www.waldoboromaine.org
Adams Farm Committee (Walpole, MA)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To expand the Community Garden Project as the number of plots will grow from 32 started last year to a total of 48 for the 2010 garden season.
Brookfield Unitarian Universalist Church – Green Sanctuary (Brookfield, MA)
Grant Award: $800.00
To offer those individuals who participate in using the Brookfield/Worcester County Food Bank the opportunity to use CFL lighting in their home through giving away CFL bulbs and educational information in their food baskets.
http://www.buuc.org
Cape Ann Farmers’ Market (Gloucester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To give Cape Ann youth an opportunity to sell quality, handcrafted products at the market that focus on traditional materials and techniques and/or creative reuse and recycling ideas.
http://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team (Gloucester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To provide innovative, hands on education presentations and workshops to the community that educate participants on the importance of vernal pools and the complex web of life they support while motivating community members to become active stewards of their natural places.
http://www.capeannvernalpond.org
Citizens for Salem/Beverly Water Resources (Beverly, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To launch portable ash urn and water canteen borrow programs to minimize cigarette butt pollution and bottled water waste generated by numerous public events in Salem and Beverly, MA.
Essex Art Center (Lawrence, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To carry environmental justice information into a significant percentage of predominantly Hispanic households by training 16 youths in digital media production and in the scope of environmental justice issues which impact their community to produce bilingual environmental justice information packages in video, audio and printed formats to convey through a range of outlets.
http://www.essexartcenter.com
Friends of Mary Cummings Park (Burlington, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To promote and support conservation and recreation at Mary Cummings Park, to advocate for restoration of the community gardens in the park, to increase community involvement in conservation and recreation and to advocate for conservation of nearby open space.
http://www.cummingspark.org
Green Marlborough (Marlborough, MA)
Grant Award: $1,800.00
To increase Green Marlborough’s membership and engage more people in the community through group projects, events, and education such Bike Marlborough, a Community Garden, Home Energy Efficiency Teams, and a Green Community newsletter.
http://www.greenmarlborough.org
Greenfield Coalition for a Sustainable Future (Greenfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To provide information to the residents of Greenfield about the impacts of large scale retail and request that the Planning Board require a Peer Review of all development impact statements, cap the building size and change the zoning regulations to cap the size of new retail buildings to exclude large scale development.
MaynardCAN! Home Energy and Efficiency Teams (Maynard, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To weatherize 6 homes in Maynard in 2010, resulting in a 20% reduction of carbon emissions per home as measured through a blower door test before and after the event.
http://www.maynardcan.org
Reading Cities for Climate Protection Advisory Committee (Reading, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To plan, organize and run two home energy efficiency and weatherization barnraising events and to conduct blower door tests on five additional homes in Reading, MA.
http://home.comcast.net/~tsopchak/RNCEC.htm
Sustainable Winchester (Winchester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To build upon the success of the Cool Winchester project pilot and scale up to engage 85% of Winchester households over the next three years in reducing their carbon footprints by an average of 25%.
http://www.suswin.org
WestSide Farm Project (Pittsfield, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To provide an environmental educator responsible for planning and care of all association garden space and to facilitate/augment two programs: 1) Recipe for Success, a weekly, after school, teen cooking program and 2) a weekly kids program at the first garden site.
Worcester Energy Barn Raisers (Holden, MA)
Grant Award: $2,500.00
To purchase a blower door system to conduct advanced energy audits and quantify the results of the organization’s energy barn-raisings.
http://www.energybarnraising.org
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust (Sugar Hill, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To work with an ad hoc group of Lyman citizens who are dedicated to creating a Lyman Community Forest through public education, outreach and voter information on the proposed 1,100 acre forest.
http://www.aconservationtrust.org
Cohos Trail Association (Pittsburg, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To complete the last 15 miles of foot trail in the Connecticut River Headwaters Region near the Canadian border, specifically in the towns of Clarksville and Pittsburg, New Hampshire.
http://www.cohostrail.org
Concord Multicultural Coalition (Manchester, NH)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To continue to provide a community garden for residents of the greater Concord area without transportation options; To provide a place for multicultural residents to interact in a positive and educationally supportive environment with each other and members of the great Concord community; To provide education to the community about organic gardening practices and offer interaction to learn about the various cultures represented within the Sycamore Field garden community.
Hollis Energy Committee (Hollis, NH)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To engage the Hollis residents in energy usage benchmarking and conservation methods through a community challenge using the New England Carbon Challenge.
http://www.hollis.nh.us/energy/energy_main.htm
Merrimack County Conservation District (Concord, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To highlight local foods in Merrimack County, NH by creating a dynamic website showing the locations and availability of fresh, local food in response to a stated need for a regional guide to local farms coming from a local food forum.
http://www.merrimackccd.org
New Hampshire Institute of Agriculture & Forestry (North Conway, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To establish a four-season greenhouse growing model for affordable, organic local food using 100% renewable energy; the project revolves around employing a moveable, translucent insulated structure heated with solar power during the cooler seasons and a boiler system during the coldest months. Results will be publicized and replicated to create new food and new farmers region-wide.
http://www.nhiaf.org
Northwood Area Land Management Collaborative (Northwood, NH)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To retain a limited, part-time Outreach Assistant to expand NALMC’s education and outreach efforts associated with implementing recommendations from NALMC’s recently completed ecological assessment.
http://www.nalmc.net
Southern NH Community Gardens Coalition Network (Bedford, NH)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To double the size of the Brookside Community Garden in Manchester hosting many low income gardeners to include over 30 refugee farmers from diverse countries.
Zero Waste Portsmouth (Portsmouth , NH)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To expand the city’s recycling program into the downtown business district in support of the City’s 2007 Econmunicipality Resolutions; To educate the local community through artistic visual themes celebrating sustainability; To build social capital by engaging the local community including over 200 local Portsmouth school students in support of the City of Portsmouth’s Cultural Plan through the creation of 15 artistically-designed, permanent combination recycling-trash stations.
African Alliance of Rhode Island (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To support the second year of the West End African Community Garden project, funds will provide support to overcome two challenges of the previous year: irrigation and soil material to fill a section of the land.
http://www.africanallianceri.org
Capital Good Fund (Providence, RI)
Grant Award: $1,600.00
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills and increase the credit scores of low and moderate-income individuals with no or poor credit histories by making Grant Award: $150 loans that will cover the cost of installing a programmable thermostat in the borrower’s residence, building the borrower’s credit as they make payments.
http://www.capitalgoodfund.org
Environmental Neighborhood Awareness Committee of Tiverton (Tiverton, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To conduct a planting festival on May 8th to celebrate the end of the cleanup that ENACT won in settlement of a suit against Southern Union Gas Company for dumping toxic waste that contaminated the working-class neighborhood of 105 homes.
http://www.enactri.org
Methodist Community Gardens (Portsmouth, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To extend the growing season and offer fresh vegetables to the needy in the community by purchasing a ‘high hoop’ greenhouse; To open an old existing well to be a supply of water to the garden and cut costs.
New Dawn Earth Center (Cumberland, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To educate and motivate both adult and children through age-appropriate programming of “Global Climate Change: Changing Minds and Actions”, using Northwest Earth Institute materials, a study circle, and a Kids Climate Summit.
http://www.newdawnearthcenter.org
North Kingstown Groundwater Committee (N Kingstown, RI)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To make North Kingstown residents aware of threats to their drinking water supply through overuse of the resource during drought or droughty summer conditions and to educate, demonstrate and encourage ways for them to participate in lowering North Kingston’s water use.
http://www.northkingstown.org
Save Bristol Harbor (Bristol, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To generate a predictive habitat model of Bristol Harbor that can be used by the Town of Bristol and the Harbor Commission to anticipate the impact of development and over-use on the quality of the water in Bristol Harbor.
http://www.savebristolharbor.com
Urban Pond Procession (Warwick, RI)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To provide educational workshops to the public about effects of storm drain runoff and industrial site history on Mashapaug Pond and Roger Williams Ponds in Providence.
http://www.voicesandvision.org
Barre Community Garden at Metro Way (Barre, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To build a storage shed for tools and garden amendments to they will be safe from ‘borrowers’.
Burlington Bicycle Cooperative (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To advocate bicycle culture, usage and safety in the Burlington area by installing a community bicycle-share program as well as a student run bike shop to serve as vectors to educate people about transportation and health issues.
Burlington Permaculture (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To encourage and assist Chittenden County residents to convert a portion or all of their existing lawn space into a productive vegetable garden or mini-orchard in a safe, healthy way, by organizing an active educational campaign and contest.
http://burlingtonpermaculture.googlepages.com
Callahan Park Community Garden Organizing Committee (Burlington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,250.00
To create a community garden in a 1-acre section of Callahan Park, the garden will serve as a source of food for both gardeners and low-income residents of the South End in Burlington and as an inspiring model of local food production for area residents.
Charlotte Homesteading Group (Charlotte, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To extend and develop the existing project to build a web-based local farmers’ market/CSA with online ordering, drop-off by producers and customer pickup with a goal to develop local markets for small-scale growers who are otherwise unable to participate in markets.
Coalition for the Preservation of Historic Brandon (Brandon, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To block/defeat an application for a proposed strip mall with a supermarket south of Brandon along Route 7.
Energy Committee of the Bradford Conservation Commission (Bradford, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To launch a series of films, workshops and field trips related to renewable energy that will then culminate with the 3rd annual Local Energy Alternatives Festival.
http://www.bradfordconservation.org
Ferrisburgh Central School (Ferrisburgh, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To create a management plan and the infrastructure necessary to run an effective on-site compost facility at Ferrisburgh Central School, complimenting an already successful community garden and healthy food service program with and emphasis on local foods.
http://www.anwsu.org/faces
Growing Together Community Garden (Hinesburg, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To educate the Hinesburg community concerning the environmental and health benefits of eating locally-grown, organic produce; to serve the community by supplying wholesome produce to the Hinesburg Food Shelf; to create a gardening community that can grow and be replicated to provide space and support for community gardens.
Harmony Farm, Inc. (Hartland, VT)
Grant Award: $640.00
To build a gardening tool and supply shed adjacent to Hartland Community Gardens at Harmony Farm, currently serving 10 households, with an expansion possible up to 15 family garden plots.
Huntington Community Garden (Huntington, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To build soil quality at a community garden site through a series of garden work parties, support education about healthy and regenerative soil management practices, and generate opportunities for local gardeners to share their wisdom with their communities.
Middlebury Energy Committee (Middlebury, VT)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To build 12 Home Energy Visit Kits to be distributed to Addison County Town Energy Coordinators and librarians to support their work in speaking with groups and individuals about weatherizing and about Vermont’s Button Up and Efficiency Vermont programs.
http://www.middlebury.govoffice.com
Montpelier Conservation Commission (Montpelier, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To establish a pilot program of air quality monitoring for the City of Montpelier, in cooperation with the Science departments at Montpelier and U-32 High Schools, during its transition to renewable sources of energy.
Pownal Community Garden (Pownal, VT)
Grant Award: $500.00
To equip the Garden with materials that enable low-income gardeners to learn how to achieve a more sustainable vegetable garden for producing their own food; To teach and demonstrate integrated gardening techniques using simple reusable materials, making it easier to deal with weather extremes, weed encroachment and pests.
http://pownal.pbworks.com
Protecting Mettawee Children (Rupert, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To establish an herbicide/pesticide no-spray buffer zone around the elementary school, to raise community awareness about the relationship between children’s health and environmental toxins, and to develop a model and set an example for herbicide/pesticide no-spray buffer zones and safe school siting in Vermont.
Rutland Area Farm & Food Link (East Poultney, VT)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To collect and redistribute 20,000 pounds of fresh produce, meat, cheese and eggs to area organizations such as food shelves and meal programs that serve low-income residents in the greater Rutland area.
http://www.rutlandfarmandfood.org
SafeArt (Chelsea, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To give youth the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with each other, the larger community, and with the plants, animals and the land at Fat Toad Farm.
http://www.safeart.org
Sustainable Rutland (Rutland, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To improve the environmental, economic and cultural sustainability of Rutland by facilitating community engagement and education, as well as strategies for creating positive change within municipal agencies and community organizations.
http://www.sustainablerutland.org
Thetford Community Garden (Thetford, VT)
Grant Award: $750.00
To provide a ’40 by 100’ community garden that includes twelve community plots and an education/teaching garden for interested town residents.
Vergennes Community Garden (Panton, VT)
Grant Award: $740.00
To improve the clay soil of the Garden by purchasing organic compost, which a soil analysis determined was needed, to cover the whole garden to allow for a successful growing season with produce donated to Vergennes Food Shelf through the ‘Plant a Row for the Hungry’ program.
Waterbury LEAP (Waterbury Ctr, VT)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To invest in various forms of communications to enable LEAP to grow its base of supporters and volunteers and to help the work of the Waterbury Energy Coordinator so s/he can support and collaborate with LEAP volunteers in identifying and completing projects to move us towards having Waterbury become a model “green” community by 2019.
http://www.waterburyleap.org
Westgate Housing (Brattleboro, VT)
Grant Award: $800.00
To build a raised vegetable garden bed to allow elderly and disabled residents to take part in our community gardens and produce their own food.
http://www.westgatehousing.org
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