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Audrey Jacobs Community Garden (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,200.00
To build a small storage shed/rainwater collection system in our community garden.
Bessie Barnes Memorial Park Committee (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $4,000.00
To create a final schematic design from community vision for the park space and to implement some small yet strategic interventions/events to spur further support and community involvement in order to apply for additional funds from the City of Boston Grassroots program and other private funders.
Brookwood Community Farm (Roslindale, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To link community development, youth leadership development, public health, and local sustainable agriculture to create a local food policy council to guide the effort and ensure broad community support and engagement.
http://www.brookwoodcommunityfarm.org
Dell Rock Neighborhood Association (Hyde Park, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To develop the Dell Rock Urban Wild site to make it more visually attractive and simpler to maintain. Also to work toward the ecological restoration of the site by removing non-native species and re-introducing native species.
Fenway Civic Association (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To reclaim an increasingly dangerous small neighborhood park and to foster the long-term civic organization necessary to advocate for the park going forward.
http://www.fenwaycivic.org
Friends and Neighbors of Glen Park (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To engage our community in understanding and monitoring what will be the long and costly cleanup of a Tier 1C Brownfield that is carrying PERC in a groundwater plume beneath homes, a public school, playing fields, and community gardens.
Friends of Jamaica Pond (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $4,000.00
To provide environmental education programs, monitor the water quality of Jamaica Pond, explore the causes of algae blooms and survey submerged aquatic vegetation. Strategies include collaborating with local limnologists, recruiting volunteers including low income youth, and developing a remediation plan for water quality and general watershed protection.
http://www.friendsofjamaicapond.org
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To bring transit equity to the residents of North Dorchester by pushing Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to build 4 new stops along the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line.
Green Streets Initiative (North Cambridge, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To increase Walk/Ride Day participation in Cambridge and Somerville, bring Boston on board in a formal way, and systematize our work so that we can respond to requests to help initiate Walk/Ride Days in other cities.
http://www.GoGreenStreets.org
John W. McCormack Civic Association (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To continue the open space and beautification project known as Sharon’s Park. We intend to install fencing, hardscape, and planter beds to an abandoned tract of land which we have converted to a neighborhood park for use by area residents.
http://www.mccormackcivic.com
Medicine Wheel Productions (South Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To fund the summer art project of transforming No Man’s Land from a site of urban blight into a beautifully landscaped artistic park which brings the whole community, especially its youth, together in co-creation and enjoyment of this site.
http://www.medicinewheelproductions.org
Mission Main Community Organizers (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $8,000.00
To replace all of the carpeting in Mission Main housing development in order to reduce the impact of asthma triggers and achieve a healthier living environment. This project will include organizing a door to door survey, a concerned resident committee, and a community meeting.
Nuestra Communidad Development Corporation (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To renovate the El Jardin de la Amistad Playground at 403 Dudley St in Roxbury. The restoration will complement the adjacent community garden maintained by Nuestra, and residents of nearby Nuestra properties will work with Nuestra staff and staff at BNAN to monitor activities at the renovated playground.
http://www.nuestracdc.org
Safety Net (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $9,000.00
To continue the campaign against the siting of a bio-terrorism lab in our neighborhood.
http://www.stopthebiolab.org
Shanbaro Community Association (Chelsea, MA) http://www.somalibantuinusa.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Grant Award: $9,000.00
To hire a full-time staff organizer so the SCA can more effectively advocate and organize to address the unique needs o the Somali Bantu community, and provide translation and other direct services to an association that organizes the Chelsea Somali Bantu community to become more vocal and civically engaged.
South Street Initiative (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $500.00
To continue to integrate gardening and environment lessons into its curriculum as well as to engage more residents in the community garden.
SPARK Afterschool Program (Mattapan, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To revive, prepare, and cultivate the “Children’s Garden” with the SPARK Center Aftershool Program and other programs in our community.
http://www.bmc.org/SPARK
Tommy’s Rock Neighborhood Association (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
To raise the awareness of residents in Roxbury and other environmental justice neighborhoods about the need to preserve and maintain their existing open green spaces through the sustainable option of creating owl boxes on suitable city parcels, public parks, and neighborhood backyards.
Unity Tower Gardeners (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $3,500.00
To improve safety and accessibility while beautifying our community garden, by: finishing our partially complete walkway; replacing our broken shed; adding planter boxes and plants; and buying bean poles and trellis wood.
Universal Human Rights International (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $9,000.00
To assist the New England African Farmers’ Cooperative Project of UHRI to begin an urban sustainable agriculture program.
http://www.uhrionline.org
Welcome Project (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To take important next steps in Mystic Housing Development’s garden by: providing culturally appropriate education around chemical use; strengthening the engagement of gardeners in the overall management of the garden; building additional bridges between Mystic gardeners and the larger Somerville community; and developing new partnerships with community organizations to ensure long-term sustainability of the Mystic garden and its programs.
http://www.welcomeproject.org