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Award Examples

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HUMAN HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMENT

Alternatives for Community and Environment - $30,000
To support the 'Building Leadership for Community Health and Sustainable Neighborhood' youth project by developing and disseminating information on water quality, environmental justice and health in Roxbury.

Berkshire Environmental Action Team - $25,000
To work with the Pittsfield community to educate and involve the public in environmental protection efforts by working with neighborhood organizations, holding forums, video taping and broadcasting hearings, meeting and forums, and encouraging people to attend public meetings.

Center for Health and the Global Environment - $30,000
To distribute state-of-the-art scientific knowledge pertaining to human health connections with the ocean environment to a number of collaborating learning institutions in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health - $40,000 over two years
To empower Boston Public School custodians, janitors, and housecleaners to engage in participatory action research and promote healthy changes in the buildings where they work and to promote environmentally safe and healthful policies and practices.

Regional Environmental Council - $40,000 over two years
To reduce the amount of toxic chemicals that are put into the waste water system by independent and small-scale janitors in Worcester as they clean office buildings, places of worship, private community facilities, and homes.

Silent Spring Institute - $25,000
To continue the study of 'Endocrine Disrupting Compounds' from septic systems in Cape Cod groundwater and conduct outreach to Cape residents, policy-makers, scientists, and the public.

WATERS ROLE IN ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

Athol Bird and Nature Club - $20,000
To continue to host monthly EIC (Environment as an Integrating Context) seminars at the Millers River Environmental Center, conduct EIC coaching in four school districts in the North Quabbin, and to help at least one school host an EIC open house while taking the lead in statewide exposure to EIC.

Association to Preserve Cape Cod- $40,000 over two years
To protect Cape Cod's coastal waters, in collaboration with the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, by addressing the effects of excessive nitrogen loading and begin efforts to make a transition from traditional septic systems to more sophisticated infrastructure that treats wastewater to remove nitrogen and other pollutants.

Berkshire Regional Planning Commission - $60,000 over three years
To reduce the impacts of development on the natural resources of the Berkshires through the promotion of Low Impact Development design techniques.

Berlin Memorial School - $8,000
To provide training for two 4th grade classroom teachers in the EIC (Environment as an Integrating Context) Method who will then develop and teach at least one EIC unit during the school year.

Concord Public Works - $31,648 over two years
To address high water use during the summer by recruiting local non-profit community groups (Boy and Girl Scouts, church groups, service organizations, PTAs, arts associations, etc), forming them into teams that will earn money for their organization if a certain level of water use reduction is achieved.

Hitchcock Center for the Environment - $8,985
To employ EIC (Environment as an Integrating Context) strategies to enhance environmental education issues that face the Connecticut River Valley and one of its major tributaries, the Sawmill River, and strengthen environmental literacy among children and teachers attending the Montague Center School.

Hoosic River Watershed - $13,600
To make property owners and other citizens aware of how their actions affect water quality, to facilitate people's adoption of best practices, to establish volunteer groups to inspect the river and take action as needed, to involve volunteers in HooRWA's benthic macroinvertabrate sampling program, and to assist the Town of Adams with the educational outreach component of its stormwater management plan.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $25,000
To develop a critically-needed ecotoxicological knowledge and expertise base to protect vernal pools and their associated water resources from point and non-point source pollution.

Nashua River Watershed Association - $20,000
To further develop the EIC (Environment and an Integrating Context) program at the JR. Briggs School which will become an EIC demonstration site for school administrators, teachers, community members, colleges and conservation commissions from the north central portion of Massachusetts.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing - $35,000
To continue work on the polluted Chelsea River to make it an environmental, recreational, educational, and economic resource for East Boston, Revere and the Greater Boston region and to build community and youth leadership through the process.

New Bedford Oceanarium - $15,000
To use the WOW Mobile (the Oceanarium Without Walls) to bring critical awareness of coastal ecosystems to the diverse and underserved communities of Southeastern Massachusetts by carrying the ocean and its theme of watershed conservation to K-12 classrooms, community centers, youth clubs, malls, parks, and any public venue where South Coast residents gather.

The New England Wild Flower Society - $19,500
To train volunteers to identify and monitor invasive plant species in wetlands, survey the wetlands, identify the areas most critical to wetland health and biodiversity, and devise a strategy for invasive plant control in collaboration with the Town of New Bedford.

Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts - $12,185.25
To install water preservation and conservation infrastructure on cultivated lots, to organize water collection systems to irrigate gardens, to hold a series of community festivals and clean-ups, and to build a community connection to water while using the watershed as an integrating concept for motivating environmental revitalization.

Save the Harbor/ Save the Bay - $60,000 over two years
To conduct a water quality study that will address non-point source pollution in the Fort Point Channel.

Westport River Watershed Alliance - $9,740
To develop, in partnership with the Westport Fisherman's Association, quarterly information/educational mailers for local residents in order to help the community understand the costs of allowing the Westport River to fall into stressed conditions, while providing pollution education and updates on the progress on the Massachusetts Estuary Project.

The Woods Hole Research Center - $25,000
To research how much local nitrogen deposition in vegetation, soils and roadways is the result of traffic and vehicle emissions on Cape Cod and to disseminate how it is distributed spatially.

DIRECTED GRANT

Secretary's Environmental Education Awards - $5,000
(Awards from the Secretary of Environmental Affairs honoring the efforts of those who help foster environmental education.)