Spring 2026 Grow Grantees Announced

We are excited to announce the list of Grow grantees for our Spring 2026 round. With final decisions made by our 16-member Grantmaking Committee, $446,558 will be distributed to 127 community groups over the next few weeks all across New England, from coastal Rhode Island to Downeast Maine. Working on a variety of issues facing their community, from immigration justice and community defense to healing workshops for educators and healthcare workers, these groups show the breath and depth of the Environmental Justice movement in our region. We're excited to share highlights from these grantees, and the myriad of ways they are applying the Guiding Practices in their work, throughout the rest of the year! 

The amount of demand we have seen for Grow funding each Spring round continues to break old records and set new ones. We've been able to rise to the occasion because our community has stepped up with us. Our work is made possible in large part due to our community grant readers and donors, who contribute their lived experiences and resources to ensure a robust Grow review process and funding pool to redistribute. We extend a huge amount of gratitude to everyone who contributed to this Grow round—we couldn't do it without you. 

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Connecticut

AKNEW
Anita, Ava House For Women, Inc.
Ar Rahman Corporation
Brave Nature School Collaborative
Build Bridgeport from Within
Christian Girlz Rock Network
Danbury Unites for Immigrants
DeMalias House of Hope
Kill Depression End Oppression (KDEO)
Rich Dae Entrepreneur Foundation
Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium (SKCAC)
Sovereign Land Trust
Stitching the Future
T. E. A. Association of CT
The Greater Waterbury LGBTQIA Pride Coalition
Windham Community Food Network
Women on the Move

 

Rhode Island

Barrington Land Conservation Trust, Inc.
Dream Weavers Garden
Joslin Community Garden
Nuevas Voces
Olneyville Resilience Hub of Providence, RI
PRONK! Providence HONK! Festival
Revive the Roots
The Haus of Glitter Dance Company

 

New Hampshire

603 Equality
Community Village @ The Center At Orchard Hill
Indonesian Community Connect
Keene Mutual Aid
Memories Made
Merrimack Valley Window Dressers
Society of Sustainable Spartans
Windowdressers, Concord, NH
Yasamin Safarzadeh LLC

 

Vermont

All the Rivers
Arlington Village Farmers Market
Between the Willows
BTV Stolen Bike & Recovery Group
Canaan Naturally Connected Inc
Central Caledonia WindowDressers Team
Chester Community Greenhouse and Gardens
Chittenden Cares
Common Ground Recovery Inc.
Craftsbury Energy Committee
Danville Town Energy Committee - Ad Hoc
Great River Coop
Northeast Federation of Cooperatives
Northeast Kingdom Collaborative
People's Agroecology School of Vermont
Plainfield Resilience Hub
ReBHS Corporation
St. Albans City Climate & Energy Committee
Vermont Village School
White River Valley Window Dressers
WindowDressers Barre-Montpelier

 

Maine

African Women and Development
Beech Hill Pond Watershed Project
Biddeford Community Gardens
Citizen's of Alfred - Stop the Quarry
Collectively Brave
Community Health Awareness & Natural Growth Environment
Community Relief Fund
Congolese Community of Maine
Downeast Wood Bank
Generations Retreat and Grow Farm
Greater Minnehonk Lake Association
Hallowell Conservation Commission
Ifka Community Services (IFKA)
Ikirezi Multicultural Institute
Jefferson Area Community Food Pantry
Juneteenth Downeast
Lewiston Auburn Youth Network
Living With Peace International
Maine Afro Yoga Project
Norway Community Build - Window Dressers
Peaks Island Tax and Energy Assistance - PITEA
Queerly ME
Rockland Maine WindowDressers 2026
Sabattus Recreation Club
Skowhegan Area Youth Group
The Joy Truck 4H Kids Project
Vassalboro Conservation Commission
We Built This
YES! Program

 

Massachusetts

Boston Community Solar Cooperative
Cambridge Community Land Trust
CEEDS4Change
Charles River Food Cooperative
Commonwealth Green Low-Income Housing Coalition/Worcester Common Ground
Corn Sister Circle
Destiny African Market
Families Like Ours
FASHION EVERYONE
Friends of Fellsmere Heights
Friends of Grandmothers' Garden, Inc
Friends of Veasey Park
Glow in The Dark Lowell
Highlands Coalition, Inc.
Indigenous Landscape Initiative (In Land)
IOCC (Indian Orchard Citizens Council)
Manos Unidas
Melrose Market Community, Inc
Millennium Latino Project
Mystic Tenant Association
Neighborhood Grow Plan: Growing Food Secure Futures
Our Fire Collective
Permaculture Association of the Northeast US Inc
PrideXtended, Inc.
Queenality Cares
Randolph DEI Coalition
Recovery through Innovation
Redistro
Rest-Stop-Ranch
Rotary Club of Westborough Farmers Market
Second Church Gardeners
seeing rainbows
The Nolumbeka Project, Inc.
The Permaculture Place, Inc.
Unbroken Wings Inc
United Nations Community Development Corp.
WAVVZ NewAge Creative Lab Inc.
Western Mass Wheelers
What's up Worcester News Inc
Williamstown Farmers Market
Womb of the Wild
Worcester Earn-a-Bike, Inc.
Youth Climate Action Franklin County

Primary issue area:

  • Climate Change & Energy
  • Food
  • Environmental Health
  • Land & Water
  • Living Economies