Three and one half years and nine rounds of grantmaking behind us, we are pleased to report that NEGEF has received over 477 proposals, has funded 216, and is reaching a very wide spectrum of environmental activists. The average grant is just over $1,850 and most groups are volunteer driven. Listed below are the groups who received support during our most recent grant round.

Bicycle Coalition of Maine
Augusta, ME
$2,000
To provide valet bicycle parking at three fairs or other special, large public events in Maine to reduce traffic congestion, cut pollution, and raise consciousness of bicycling as a viable transportation option.

Chelsea Green Space and Recreation Committee
Chelsea, MA
$2,500
To help the Chelsea Green Space Committee to conduct an education and outreach campaign about the hazards of environmental justice issues to Chelsea residents who have not always had a voice in policies that affect their lives.

Citizens Awareness Network
Shelburne Falls, MA
$2,500
To support the 1999 Northeast Action Camp II, a week of activist training to give citizens the knowledge and tools to confront issues related to nuclear generation, waste disposal and decommissioning of the region's aging nuclear power plants.

Citizens for Stratham
Stratham, NH
$2,500
To provide support for the group's campaign against urban sprawl. Citizens for Stratham are presenting information about the impacts of scatter development and mobilizing citizens to participate in local planning and zoning issues promoting wise growth in their community.

Community Planning Project
Orleans, VT
$2,500
To partially fund the out-of-pocket expenses needed to restore the Barton River riparian zone between Orleans Village and Barton in Orleans County, Vermont.

Community School
South Tamworth, NH
$1,850
To purchase equipment and services to install a drip irrigation system for the school's garden which supports a community supported agricultural (CSA) program, donates food to local food pantries, and teaches students the skills and benefits of organic gardening.

Compassion Unlimited - Respecting Everyone (CURE)
Edgecomb, ME
$2,000
To fund a portion of the planning and coordination of the "Second Annual Alternative Paper Conference", an event which provides information and connections to individuals, businesses, non-profit and government organizations to move to non-tree fiber papers.

EarthWorks Projects, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,500
To identify and train volunteers to care for three urban orchards.

Environmental Voters Education Fund
Ashland, NH
$2,500
To develop, print and distribute three newsletters containing information on a variety of environmental issues relevant to New Hampshire citizens.

Friends of Lynn Woods
Lynn, MA
$1,500
To provide matching funds to support a watershed protection effort by the Friends of Lynn Woods to implement an advocacy program designed to secure government funding to buy private property adjoining the Reservation.

Friends of the South County Bike Path
Wakefield, RI
$2,500
To fund purchase of materials to solicit a broader range of citizens and businesses who will advocate for completion of the Bike Path and join as volunteers to promote and maintain it.

Friends of the Winooski River
Montpelier, VT
$2,220
To help fund the 2nd Annual Celebrate the Winooski festival, an event that combines a river clean-up, environmental education and a celebration through the arts to promote river stewardship.

Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association
Gloucester, MA
$2,500
To provide funds to be used to meet with fishermen organizations and other groups to inform them of the impact gas and oil exploration on the Georges Bank may have on the north Atlantic fisheries, and to motivate them to ask the Canadian government to join the U.S. in extending for another decade the existing "no exploration" moratorium.

Green Decade Coalition/Newton
Newton, MA
$1,250
To produce materials needed to promote Newton's transition from pesticide-dependent landscaping and pest control to ecologically-sound approaches.

Maine Land Trust Network
Brunswick, ME
$2,000
To help underwrite the costs of two organizational development training workshops for Maine local land trust volunteers.

Mascoma Lake Community Association
Enfield, NH
$900
To purchase a new dissolved oxygen meter to gather water quality data in Mascoma Lake locations not currently accessible with existing Association equipment.

Meduxnekeag Watershed Coalition
Houlton, ME
$2,500
To produce Meduxnekeag Watershed placemats for use in area restaurants and a coalition brochure to increase public awareness of the watershed and suggest ways to protect it.

Merrimack Valley Residents for the Environment
Andover, MA
$2,500
To educate valley residents about a proposed 750-megawatt combined cycle gas-fired power plant so they can speak to their local concerns at appropriate public meetings.

Monadnock Conservancy
Keene, NH
$2,475
To fund the creation of a workshop to train conservation commissions on the stewardship of town-owned conservation easements.

New Hampshire Herbicide Project
Lancaster, NH
$200
To attend a conference, "Environmental Influences on Children: Brain, Development and Behavior".

New Hampshire Public Interest Research
Portsmouth, NH
$2,500
To help launch NHPIRG and to support its mercury reduction campaign's community organizing element.

North Country RC &D
Laconia, NH
$1,250
To provide mileage reimbursements and stipends to attend the New England Women Farmers Conference in August 1999.

Northeast Stewardship Project
Concord, VT
$2,500
To fund a portion of the Vermont Logger Education to Advance Professionalism program.

Nuestras Raices, Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,500
To train and support ten community garden coordinators in leadership and organic gardening skills.

Sakonnet River Association
Tiverton, RI
$1,500
To provide general organizational support so that the group can develop its basic organizational materials and launch its first clean-up effort. The group will focus on monitoring the utilization of pumpout stations by recreational and commercial vessels and initiate a public information campaign urging boaters to obey discharge laws.

Sanbornton Citizens for Open Space
Sanbornton, NH
$1,100
To encourage land conservation and farmland preservation in Sanbornton through frequent newsletters, the distribution of a buy-local flyer, and participation in local planning, zoning and conservation commission processes.

Saugatucket River Heritage Corridor Coalition
Wakefield, RI
$2,500
For general operating support to help with postage, printing, phone expense and educational materials as required by their 1999-2000 work plan.

Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
Portsmouth, NH
$1,750
To update its organizational brochure describing the broader issue base which SAPL is now addressing. The materials will be used to solicit new members to support the group's work.

Tisbury Waterway, Inc.
West Tisbury, MA
$2,500
To support a summer intern who will coordinate the Lake Tashmoo watershed monitoring project.

Toxics Action Center
Boston, MA
$175
To fund scholarships for local grassroots activists to attend the Toxics Action Center's annual training conference.

Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife, Inc.
Craftsbury Common, VT
$1,500
To support a portion of the Neighbor Wildlife Habitat Program that brings contiguous landowners together to manage large blocks of woodlands in a coordinated fashion.