| |
Home
Frequently Asked
Questions
Small Grants Information & Forms
Boston Grants Initiative
Information & Forms
About Us
Trainings/Conferences
Brochure and
Annual Reports
Current
Newsletter
Archived
Newsletters
Grantee Contact
Information
Air
Biotechnology
Energy
Land Use
Natural Resources
Population/Consumption
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
Urban Environment
Water
General
Grassroots
Web Links
Contact
and Staff Info
|
|
|
NEW
ENGLAND WIDE SMALL GRANTS - September 15th
** Funds to be distributed in December, 2008 ** BOSTON
GRANTS INITIATIVE - June 15th
** Funds to be distributed in September, 2008 ** |
NEGEF GRASSROOTS RETREAT 2008  | The
2008 Grassroots Retreat
has a
time and a place, so mark this down in your calendars: October
10-11 at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst Campus Center and Hotel.
Find out more here and stay tuned for
more details... |
The
New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is designed to foster
and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives
in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and
Vermont. The Fund provides grants to fuel civic engagement, local
activism, and social change.
 The
Small Grants Program
provides grants up to $2,500 to fund community
involvement in projects
that address a wide range of environmental issues including:
agriculture, air quality, alternative energy, aquifer protection,  biotechnology,
community gardens, environmental justice, energy conservation,
forestry, global warming, land trusts, marine environment, public
health, sprawl, sustainable communities, toxics and hazardous waste,
trails, water quality, watershed management, wetlands, wildlife, and
youth-organized environmental work.
The Boston Grants Initiative provides
grants up to $10,000 to groups working on environmental justice,
environmental health, greenspace/community gardens, and other
environmental projects in the neighborhoods of Boston, Chelsea,
Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  | The Grassroots Fund
believes that the key to long-term community health is the passion of
citizen groups who are motivated by a particular local concern and take
direct action to address it. They represent the most exciting energy in
the environmental movement today. |
|
NEGEF was created to assist groups
who are not being reached by traditional funders.
The Fund's Goals are to:
- Increase civic engagement, volunteerism,
emerging leaders
and community initiatives that create healthy, just, safe and
environmentally sustainable communities at the neighborhood and town
level in New England.
- Help community leaders move single issue,
backyard
debates to positive, inclusive, systemic, constructive, and
lasting
community solutions.
- Link community-based advocacy with the work
of statewide and national organizations without losing local
identity.
- Establish and maintain informed networks of
activists
across the region that are committed to building a just and
equitable
society.
|
