Our group would like to save a public park next to a recreational pond (Legions Pond) from development.  The Grassroots Fund helped a similar group in my town to save another public park, Emery Field, from unnecessary development.  That group was called "Friends of Emery Field".  We could call our group "Friends of Legions Pond", but one of our activists does not want us to openly challenge our town.  He wants his similarly sounding, "Legions Pond Skate Club" page to be non-controversial. The park area is technically a brownfield due to environmental contamination from, among other things, hexavalent chromium.  Our town wants to use the space for a 12 unit affordable housing development.  It is very obviously not needed because thousands of apartments are in the process of being built locally and the vacancy rate in the neighborhood is 15%.  Also, the environmental contamination will not be cleaned up.  It will simply be "encapsulated" by poring foundation concrete over it.  That's probably not a good idea. Maine towns have a peculiar form of legal sovereign immunity.  So it is necessary to sue the town to enforce justice.  For a private group like ours, taking the town to court is expensive and the town has unlimited resources to fight us.  Who is going to chip in first dollar for a lawsuit?  It would be much easier to fundraise with a seed grant.