Three and one half years and ten rounds of grantmaking behind us, we are pleased to report that NEGEF has received over 524 proposals, has funded 249, and is reaching a very wide spectrum of environmental activists. The average grant is just over $1,837 and most groups are volunteer driven. Listed below are the groups who received support during our most recent grant round.
Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust Bedford Land Trust Berkshire Regional Food and Land Council C-10 Research and Education Foundation, Inc. Citizens for New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Clean Water Fund - Western Massachusetts Clean Water Fund - Western Mass. Coalition for Sensible Energy Environmental Action for Northern New Hampshire Forest Ecology Network Friends of Muddy Brook Basin Great Works Regional Land Trust Hampden Citizen Coalition Irish Hill Ridgeline Conservation Project, Inc. Londonderry Neighborhood Coalition Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation Marblehead Pesticide Awareness Committee Narrow River Preservation Assn. New Hampshire Council of Churches North Rockland Neighborhood Assn. People for the Environment Prudence Conservancy Regional Environmental Council of Central MA Residents for Northeast Kingdom Preservation Salem Power Plant HealthLink Save Our Water (Merrimack Citizens United) Spirit in Nature Stop Any Further Expansion (SAFE) Topsham's Future Upper Valley Trails Alliance Vermont Population Alliance Watchdogs for an Environmentally Safe Town Winooski Natural Resources Conservation
New London, NH
$1,000
To help underwrite the costs of a Strategic Planning Retreat for its volunteer Board of Trustees and its support staff.
Bedford, NH
$2,000
To assist with the production of fundraising materials needed by this all-volunteer group to raise $330,000 towards the conservation purchase of a key open space property in Bedford.
West Stockbridge, MA
$1500
To fund the design, execution and maintenance of a website to educate the public as well as to facilitate "Berkshire Grown", a program promoting local agriculture in the Berkshire Region.
Newburyport, MA
$2500
To conduct a mussel study evaluating the impact of radionuclides released into the ocean water from the Seabrook power plant on marine life and the food chain.
Concord, NH
$1,000
To help fund a citizen activist conference in January of 2000 to train local community members in the grassroots organizing skills necessary to support the creation of a new conservation program and to affect local conservation issues.
Northampton, MA
$1,000
conference/training for To help fund a citizen activist conference in January of 2000 to train local community members in the grassroots organizing skills necessary to support the creation of a new conservation program and to affect local conservation issues.
Northampton, MA
$1000
To fund a conference/training for grassroots environmental activists and organization from Western Massachusetts to connect resources and plan coordinated strategies.
Bucksport, ME
$2000
To support four projects: maintenance of website, newsletter expansion and targeting, supporting Earth Day 2000 activities, and traveling to stay abreast of the field.
Bethlehem, NH
$2500
To help pay for attorney costs associated with the group's participation as "intervenor status" in a court case involving the town of Bethlehem and North Country Environmental Services, a subsidiary of Casella Waste Systems, over a landfill expansion.
Augusta, ME
$1,000
To help pay for the cost of layout, printing and distributing the next issue of their newsletter, The Maine Woods, the only Maine based publication devoted exclusively to forest issues.
Williston, VT
$2,000
To help defray costs associated with the continued protection of the Muddy Brook Basin and to provide ongoing education to residents of the area about the unique qualities of its land, wetlands and wildlife corridor.
Berwick, ME
$2,000
To help fund expenses for an outreach program to activate community involvement and increase environmental awareness in order to raise funds for the purchase of 89 acres of land on Bauneg Beg Mountain.
Hampden, ME
$2,500
To help fund legal and associated costs of the campaign to stop the expansion of the Sawyer Environmental Recovery Facilities landfill, the largest special waste landfill in Maine.
Berlin, VT
$1,500
To conduct a fund raising campaign for the purchase of three major ridgeline watershed lots and to obtain conservation easements from adjoining landowners.
Londonderry, NH
$2,500
To fund the printing and mailing of a brochure to educate residents about the legal and political options open to them in the appeal of the state decision to site a gas fired power plant in Londonderry.
Camden, ME
$2,000
To support membership development, publicity and outreach needed to build a group of volunteers for the organization.
Marblehead, MA
$1,500
To fund the continued construction, development and planting of a pesticide-free lawn and border gardens on a plot of Town-owned land, and the creation of a model backyard leaf-composting system.
Saunderstown, RI
$2,000
To purchase a new computer system so that NRPA may enhance its communications, advocacy and education programs in the Narrow River Watershed.
Concord, NH
$2,500
To staff an intern to help establish a network of faith-based environmental congregations and groups.
Rockland, MA
$2,500
To help fund costs associated with the neighborhood's legal costs and campaign to close down and clean up a "recycling" yard which receives waste materials from 17 surrounding towns.
North Andover, MA
$2,000
To continue to fund efforts to educate the public on the importance of reducing the waste stream in order to negate the need for incineration.
Prudence Island, RI
$2,500
To establish the first community garden on Prudence Island, including a community compost center.
Worcester, MA
$2,000
To fund costs associated with the maintenance and care of seedlings grown in a newly constructed greenhouse to be used for the community gardening program.
Sheffield, VT
$2000
To help defray the cost of legal and consultant fees in an Appeal to the Vermont Environmental Board of an Act 250 Permit issued to the Barre Granite Quarries.
Marblehead, MA
$2,000
To help pay costs associated with the campaign to inform local citizens about the effects of the power plant emissions.
Merrimack, NH
$2,500
To help pay legal costs associated with an appeal to have the Merrimack Planning Board rehear a proposal to locate a Home Depot on a parcel of land which is located over an aquifer servicing three of the six Merrimack town water wells.
East Middlebury, VT
$2,000
To help fund workshops about how religions are intimately connected to nature and how participants can act on that connection in their local communities.
Cohasset, MA
$2,000
To fund the "SAFE Landfill Closure Campaign" designed to mobilize hundreds of volunteers in Cohasset to make calls, write letters, sign petitions, etc. to make sure the closure of the CHL landfill is conducted properly and to defeat CHL's new application for a landfill expansion.
Topsham, ME
$2000
To provide resources so Topsham's Future can secure professional help in gathering data needed to understand the economic, environmental and social impacts of a large housing and golf course development and to participate actively in appropriate town planning processes.
White River Junction, VT
$1,000
To help fund a needs assessment of trails and trail resources in the Upper Valley and to create a directory with the compiled information.
Norwich, VT
$400
To attend a conference sponsored by the Northwest Earth Institute to learn about forming discussion groups around the issues of sustainable lifestyles, quality of life and environmental quality.
Westminster, MA
$2,000
To continue work to oppose the expansion of a ski resort on Mt. Wachusett State Reservation and the watchdogging of environmental hazards in central Massachusetts.
Berlin, VT
$300
To fund training at a watershed conference, Working at the Watershed Level.