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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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8centric (South Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $800.00
To create an environmental initiative focused on reviving three parks and a garden in Boston’s Chinatown. The environmental initiative aims to revitalize community ties, through collaborative efforts to save and maintain, as well as promote constructive use of green spaces.
http://www.8centric.org
Boston Climate Action Network (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To harness the power of neighbor-to-neighbor connections to increase community empowerment, conserve financial and natural resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increase the number of good, local jobs in the energy efficiency field through organizing.
http://www.bostonCAN.org
Brazilian Women’s Group (Allston, MA)
Grant Award: $10,000.00
To expand the production of Vida Verde natural cleaning products and training sessions, which will include the making of the products, concrete examples of the danger of chemicals used in cleaning products and education on workers’ rights.
http://www.verdeamarelo.org
Chelsea Community Gardeners Association (Chelsea, MA)
Grant Award: $7,500.00
To further develop the gardens structure, to formalize its Executive Committee, to expand its capacity to serve the community, and to utilize the garden as a bridge to build community.
http://chelseacommunitygarden.com
Clarendon Hill Garden Committee (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $5,810.92
To construct a community garden at the Clarendon Hill Public Housing Development in Somerville, MA with the goals of providing outdoor communal space where residents can grow fresh fruits and vegetables to encourage healthy eating, maximize income, promote outdoor activities, develop environmental education programming for adults and youth and foster stronger social relations and collaboration amongst a diverse group of residents.
Clark-Cooper Community Gardens (Mattapan, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To beautify the garden borders, walk and pathways with perennials, annuals and berry bearing shrubbery after the new borders are installed.
“e” Inc. (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To deepen and expand our Teen Green Team model that combines leadership and team-building skills with community organizing and science education.
http://www.e-action.us
Fenway Garden Society (Boston, MA) $4,000.00
Grant Award: $4,000.00
To replace collapsing perimeter fencing around the Fenway Victory Gardens, engaging matching support by FGS and the City of Boston.
http://www.fenwayvictorygardens.com
Friends of Nira Rock (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
To restore and beautify a long neglected 1.5 acre natural area for the long term benefit of Hyde Square residents and to complete one of the final stages of the project, to provide safety and aesthetic enhancements to one of the remaining un-renovated site entrances.
http://www.nirarock.org
Friends of Alewife Reservation (Cambridge, MA)
Grant Award: $2,000.00
To continue the FAR Ecology Camp concentrating on a more technical focus, 15 Cambridge youth will participate in conservation services including landscaping, invasive species removal, water quality testing and forest management.
http://www.friendsofthealewifereservation.org
Friends of the Community Growing Center (Somerville, MA)
Grant Award: $7,642.00
To develop a 15 year master plan for the Center and to support a diverse set of Somerville families gaining a direct connection to their local environment as part of helping to create community wide culture that supports increased outdoor time for all children to play and learn from experiences with the natural world.
http://www.thegrowingcenter.org
Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) (Cambridge, MA)
Grant Award: $8,000.00
To support HEET’s basic monthly barnraising activities in Cambridge while the organization transitions from an all-volunteer group to a non profit with some form of paid staff. BGI funds will be used for event coordination, low-income outreach, the low income barnraising fund and liability insurance.
http://www.heetma.com
JP Green House (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000.00
To develop, conduct and package sustainability workshops and work/learning trainings (emphasizing passivehaus construction), organize a Jamaica Plain/Roslindale resilience network, co-host a Boston transition Towns training and facilitate formation of Transition Boston hub.
http://jpgreenhouse.org
McLaughlin Stewards (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
To continue and maintain the work done at McLaughlin Woodlands and orchards by local volunteers by pruning the older apple trees.
Medicine Wheel Productions (South Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $4,000.00
To support a summer paid employment program in South Boston for youth ages 14 to 18, where students work 25 hours a week for 8 weeks on various individual and group projects as part of public arts projects at No Man’s Land.
http://www.medicinewheelproductions.org
Nubian United Benevolent International Association (NUBIA) (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $7,000.00
The Nubian Seed & Yield program is to help 30 kids in our community and 20 kids from the Somali community to learn about the importance of good nutrition, then environment and helping those who are in need.
http://www.nubianet.net
Roxbury Green Power (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To facilitate community based economic development projects like home weatherizations, biofuels processing and urban agriculture, to combat poverty and pollution at the same time through a collective of under- and unemployed ex-offenders.
Shanbaro Community Association (Chelsea, MA)
Grant Award: $5,000
To continue to effectively advocate and organize to address the unique needs of the Somali Bantu community; to develop as a committee and continue to transition from providing direct services to organizing the Somali Bantu community of Chelsea and surrounding areas.
http://www.chelseacollab.org
South Boston Grows (S Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $7,500.00
To improve community greenspace and to increase knowledge of growing edible plants with the long term goal of increasing access and exposure to and intake of fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs in South Boston. We will educate youth and the community about growing and preparing (cooking, canning etc) fresh food. http://www.southbostongrows.org
South Boston Youth Assets Campaign (S Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To develop and implement a reclamation process to regain greenspace as safe space in South Boston through collaborative groupings of EJ organizations and agencies in the community and innovative community building activities.
South End/Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust (Boston, MA)
Grant Award: $3,000.00
To support the hiring of a consultant to guide a visioning and planning process to evaluate the capacity of SELROSLT to assess its future needs and opportunities, including the potential for affiliation with a larger organization.
http://www.selroslt.org
Southern Sudanese Solidarity Organization and Congolese Development Center (Lynn, MA)
Grant Award: $8,000.00
To provide participants in the Project a source of fresh fruits and vegetables that they may not otherwise have access to and to provide streets relief, skill development, food security and economic savings and assist participants to culturally appropriate food.
http://www.c-dc.net http://www.maacoalition.com
Talbot-Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $6,000.00
To seek partners to help launch Phase 2 of our plan to create a multi-site urban garden in the TNT which will include a children’s learning community garden through a multi-generational effort.
United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury (Roxbury, MA)
Grant Award: $7,500.00
To implement Young Achievers an educational youth employment program to engage community youth and adults in urban farming and community outreach and organizing relating to environmental justice. Youth will be trained in organic vegetable gardening and organizing the Fredrick Douglas Produce Market and conducting outreach and education to the Lower Roxbury neighborhood.
http://www.unlr.org
Urban Grassroots Garden Project (UGRGP) (Dorchester, MA)
Grant Award: $1,472.00
To obtain funding for garden hand tools, planting medium, peat pots and flats and whole food refreshment for the 2010 BYF teenagers working with the out of school UGRGP at the Clark Cooper Community Garden and the Mattapan Farmers Market from July- August.
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