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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.
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“e” Inc. (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To involve small teams of youth in team building, leadership skills, and science education through Teen Green Teams, which uses community projects and science to improve the sustainability of neighborhoods.
http://www.e-action.us
Allston/Brighton North Neighbors Forum (Allston, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To plant trees and add public art to a strip of long-neglected land along Everett Street in Allston, and to complete the work began in 2008 to build community, engage neighbors and beautify the site.
Brookwood Community Farm (Roslindale, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To fund the Mattapan Food System Project to strengthen food security in Mattapan by linking community development, youth leadership development, public health and local and sustainable agriculture to create a local food policy council to guide the effort and ensure broad community support and engagement.
http://www.brookwoodcommunityfarm.org
Co-op Power Metro East (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $8,000.00
To work with residents to weatherize homes in low-income communities and communities of color in the Boston area; the project will be free to homeowners who will only be responsible for the cost of materials.
http://www.cooppower.coop
Dorchester Historical Society (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To improve the landscape at the Dorchester Historical Society headquarters, to create a greater awareness within a traditionally underserved urban population of the benefits of locally-grown food, and to create an opportunity to emphasize Dorchester’s agricultural heritage.
http://www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org
Dudley Neighbors, Inc. (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
To continue CommunitySpace, a teen employment program to undertake landscaping and maintenance of the DNI portfolio of open-space properties.
http://www.dsni.org
East Boston YMCA (East Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $1,500.00
To plant 2 high visibility garden plots with perennials, shrubs, and a fruiting tree to provide a habitat for butterflies and insects and food for birds, and will include a gardening course for eight 10-13 year old children.
Fenway Garden Society (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
To replace the existing obsolete underground cast iron irrigation water main system using a volunteer plumbing crew, which will allow gardeners to learn basic pluming skills, maintain their own modular irrigation, and save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water while securing key capacity building infrastructure for gardeners in the future.
http://www.FenwayVictoryGardens.com
Friends of Alewife Reservation (Cambridge, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To train 15 Cambridge youth from the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program in exchange for general conservation service skills like landscaping, CPS, invasive removal, water quality testing and more.
http://www.friendsofalewifereservation.org
Gardens for Charlestown (Charlestown, MA)
Grant Award: $1,400.00
To replace 3 old wooden benches with new metal benches in a garden used not only by members but by the community-at-large.
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
To upgrade MBTA service and to deal with environmental issues along the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line.
http://www.gfcac.org
Groundwork Somerville (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To fund the Compost Crusaders, a youth, community and volunteer run program looking to empower Somerville small businesses and residents to compost through a fee-for-service compost pick-up, management and educational program.
http://www.groundworksomerville.org
Highland Park Neighborhood Association (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To support redesign and restoration of Alvah Kittredge Park in the historic Highland Park neighborhood of Roxbury.
http://www.highlandparkboston.org
Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) (Cambridge, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To expand capacity by creating a part-time staff position, to build the fund for weatherization materials for low-income barnraising, to enable the purchase of liability insurance, and to create a website.
http://www.heetma.com
Leland Street Community Garden (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $500.00
To purchase a battery-powered lawnmower.
Leyland St. Garden (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $667.00
To purchase new tools and a Rubbermaid tool shed in order to maintain the garden; tools will be used for gardening and upkeep.
Massachusetts Oyster Project for Clean Water (Charlestown, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To introduce water cleansing oyster into the mouth of the Neponset River to re-establish the species, clean the water by offsetting manmade run-off and pollution, and draw other species of aquatic life.
http://www.massoyster.org
Medicine Wheel Productions (South Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To maintain and develop the program at No Man’s Land, a community public art garden, through a dedication event that will introduce the land and the project to the larger community.
http://www.medicinewheelproductions.org
Shanbaro Community Association (Chelsea, MA)
Grant Award: $9,000.00
To fund a staff organizer and the continued program development of the SCA.
Somerville Arts Council (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $4,000.00
To fund the Mystic River Mural Project which uses hikes, canoe trips and workshops with local environmental educators, naturalists and historians to introduce 7-10 low-income Somerville teenagers to the Mystic River and its watershed.
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Somerville Community Baptist Church (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To meet the nutritional and social needs of the community by providing free, healthy, fresh meals in a welcoming atmosphere through environmentally sustainable practices, such as gardening, use of locally grown foods, reusable dishes and utensils, and recycling.
http://www.somervillecommunitybaptist.org
South Boston Action Council (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $5,500.00
To develop an environmental health and justice program for teens in South Boston, aiming to partner with youth to understand and explore the health impacts of their built environment and strategize ways to reduce health disparities.
Unity Tower Community Garden (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $800.00
To improve our garden while fostering a sense of community for gardeners by: buying chairs for our patio table, installing window boxes and planters filled with annual plants, paving the area around the shed with patio stones and buying needed maintenance supplies.
Welcome Project (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To engage young people from low income immigrant families at the Mystic Public Housing Development to become stewards of their own local ecosystem through workshops, field trips and education.
http://www.welcomeproject.org
Women in Green (WIG) (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To build a cadre of women leaders who will educate other women about opportunities in the emerging green economy and insert women’s voices into advocacy campaigns for green justice.
Worcester Street Community Garden (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To improve the garden layout, remediate the tainted soil on-site (from removed contaminated railroad ties), install new bordering materials and a handicapped accessible path to the tool shed and compost area.
http://www.worcesterstreetgarden.org