Download Full List of Unrestricted General Grant Awards, 1991 to Present

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BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM
Center for Coastal Studies - $25,000
To determine the current size and status of the Gulf of Maine humpback whale population, study its distribution and habitat use within New England waters, and evaluate the whales' risk from entanglement in fishing gear and debris.

Massachusetts Audubon Society - $15,180
To determine the importance of horseshoe crab eggs and larvae as a food source for migratory shorebirds in order to advocate for more stringent bait fishing regulations.

The Nature Conservancy - $13,000
To partner with the Student Conservation Association to create a "Stewardship Exotics Team" to control and eradicate Phragmites australis in one of the best remaining examples of calcareous fen and seepage wetlands in western Massachusetts.

New England Naturalist Training Center - $19,260
Bat Conservation International- fiscal agent
To augment the existing Farnums Tunnel in Berkshire County in order to create the largest viable bat hibernacula in Massachusetts.

UMASS/Boston- Department of Biology - $19,379
To collaborate with local watershed organizations to create freshwater macroinvertebrate field guides for use by citizen groups.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
Brookline Community Fund - $100,000
To endow the Environmental Support Fund which will support environmental components of the Comprehensive Plan for Brookline, constituency building, programs that increase public awareness and understanding of environmental issues, and programs that pilot innovative solutions to environmental problems.

Essex County Community Foundation - $100,000
To endow the Environmental Stewardship Initiative which seeks to effect the quality of life for all Essex County citizens by promoting stewardship of the county's water and other natural resources and working to wisely manage the county's growth.

CONSERVATION COMMISSION TRAINING
Department of Environmental Protection - $40,000
To develop regional curves in order to predict the limits of the Mean Annual High Water of a river based on the size of its drainage area. This work will be completed in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey and will be used for subsequent training programs.

DIRECTED GRANTS PROGRAM
Buzzards Bay Program - $10,000
To provide match money to complete, print and distribute the Atlas of Stormwater Discharges for Buzzards Bay and provide technical assistance for priority sites.

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay - $150,000
To establish a permanent Buzzards Bay Land Revolving Fund to assist the watershed's 11 land trusts with the conservation of lands critical to water resource protection.

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay - $15,000
To conduct a water resources study regarding the potential impact of a proposed mega-development project on the river, bay, and drinking water supplies of Plymouth, Carver, and Wareham.

Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts - $20,000
To support the 2002 Canon Envirothon, an international competition for high school students regarding their knowledge of environmental subjects and current issues, to be hosted in Massachusetts.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - $20,000
To explore environmental opportunities for the use of settlement dollars, with emphasis placed on those which serve to address environmental justice issues.

New England Aquarium - $50,000
To continue the Trust's partnership with the Aquarium and the City of Boston to host Harbor Discoveries, a marine science summer camp held on Long Island in Boston Harbor. The Trust grant will provide scholarships for under-served Boston-area youth to attend the camp.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund - $45,000
To support, over the next three years, a small grants program for water quality related grassroots efforts in Massachusetts.

AMERICAN HERITAGE RIVERS SUPPORT
Town of Grafton - $24,300
To partner with Grafton High School and the Grafton Land Trust to restore a severely eroded section of bank on Lake Ripple using bioremediation techniques.

BOSTON BRIDGES PROGRAM
Boston Harbor Association - $10,000
To expand outreach and education activities related to the "Boston Harbor Marine Debris Cleanup Project," an effort to remove and prevent debris that poses a risk to human and marine life and diminishes the harbor's beauty.

Boston Public Health Commission - $19,555
To take mercury thermometers out of circulation in the Boston area through a partnership with the Boston Commission on Affairs of the Elderly home prescription program to educate their clients about the dangers of mercury contamination, offer replacement digital thermometers, and collect mercury thermometers for proper disposal.

Massachusetts Audubon Society- Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary - $12,584
To promote ecologically sound landscaping practices to homeowners and professional landscapers through workshops, educational materials, and other resources for advocating sustainable alternatives.

Massachusetts Historical Society - $8,938
To conduct the Boston Environmental History Seminar series focusing on such issues as changes in the land, water quality, and sustainable development with the broad goal of building an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in these issues.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing - $15,000
To conduct the Chelsea Creek/Mill Creek Master Planning Land-use Visioning Process involving public, private and community stakeholders to create a river-wide plan to promote balanced uses for the waterfront that protects and restores the resource.

The Watershed Institute - $31,893
To support the Natural Cities Program including the creation of school partnerships to develop student-initiated advocacy efforts regarding best management practices for the schools and local environs.

GENERAL GRANTS PROGRAM
Blackstone River Watershed Association - $7,350
To form Stream Teams to help build a constituency for the river and to assist with its stewardship.

Boston Natural Areas Fund - $20,000
To launch, City Natives, a project to propagate native plant species for the benefit of the natural waterfront landscapes that are the focus of the Greenways to Boston Harbor Initiative: the East Boston Greenway and the Neponset River Greenway.

City of Springfield- Planning Department - $8,000
To create storm drain plaques that individually identify each storm drain's endpoint and to conduct outreach to community partners to encourage public involvement in the health of the city's sixteen surface water bodies.

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay - $12,500
To create two Herring Run Discovery Centers, educational field stations to be located on the Agawam and Mattapoisett Rivers, as well as a corresponding curriculum that teaches about the lives and history of the herring and their connection to Buzzards Bay.

Conservation Law Foundation - $10,000
To continue work on the Sustainable Fisheries Marketing Initiative, a partnership with the Cape Cod hook-and-line fishery to market its products as high quality, fresh, sustainably harvested fish.

Housatonic River Restoration - $20,000
To establish a regional educational partnership of teachers, environmentalists, municipal officials and the general public that will develop and implement an education action plan surrounding the Natural Resource Damage restoration efforts.

Merrimack River Watershed Council - $20,000
To provide a scientifically credible sub-watershed level assessment of the impacts of current and future impervious surfaces on water quality and quantity and to create tools and strategies for communities to address these issues.

Neponset River Watershed Association - $18,000
To continue the Water BUDGETS project, an effort to develop new tools for protecting streamflows in the Neponset Valley, by building partnerships, assessing community knowledge and perceptions and preparing an action agenda for streamflow management.

Northeast Organic Farming Association - $18,300
To create an educational program for land care professionals in organic landscape management, culminating in an examination and accreditation program.

Railroad Street Youth Project - $20,000
Berkshire-Taconic Community Foundation- fiscal agent
To create a youth-led native plant nursery focused on wetland species in the southern Berkshires in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy and to enhance regional education efforts regarding the importance of protecting native species.

Silent Spring Institute - $18,700
To conduct an innovative research study examining endocrine disrupting compounds in wastewater, groundwater and drinking water on Cape Cod.

Westport River Watershed Alliance - $20,000
To work with town officials to prepare an environmental/hydrological assessment of Westport's water resources and to draft appropriate zoning bylaws to best protect these resources.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance - $25,000
Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts- fiscal agent
To conduct the Watershed Connections Project for high school students in southeastern Massachusetts, including exploration of estuaries and coastal ecosystems as well as development issues that lead to "livable" cities.

Hands-on Boat-based Education and Science - $8,000
To integrate local marine issues into the math and science curriculum at the Carlton School in Salem.

Merrimack River Watershed Council - $20,000
To collaborate with the Community Day Care Center of Lawrence to provide an interdisciplinary environmental after school program serving 250 children and their families.

New England Wildlife Center - $20,000
To partner with the Friends of the Blue Hills and the Neponset River Watershed Association on the implementation of a seven-week environmental education program for 4th and 5th graders on the South Shore.

Springfield Science Museum - $12,625
To expand the River Education Awareness Program to include Springfield high school students in a natural community inventory of the Mill River watershed.

Westport River Watershed Association - $6,000
To incorporate a guide for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System into the Watershed Education Program, a K-9 environmental curriculum.

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PROGRAM
Bristol Community College - $15,664
To expand the South Watuppa Assessment Network to include additional trainings and outreach for the monitoring program, as well as an intensive summer program to address areas of concern indicated by previous baseline studies.

Charles River Watershed Association - $18,895
To develop methods for determining stream flow requirements for the maintenance of fish and wildlife habitat in the Charles River in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Deerfield River Watershed Association - $4,000
To establish a water quality laboratory in the watershed to increase the capacity and viability of the group's volunteer monitoring program.

Lakes and Ponds Association of Western Massachusetts - $17,000
To develop a transferable process of water quality data analysis and effective management strategies for volunteer monitoring groups focused on lakes and ponds.

The Nature Conservancy - $24,913
To partner with Cornell University to quantitatively evaluate the ecological consequences of change in river flow in the Mill River and affected tributaries as well as the potential removal or repair of the Hatfield Dam.

Salem Sound 2000 - $5,000
To initiate an Adopt-A-Tidepool monitoring program to aid in the tracking of invasive intertidal species.

State University of New York- Oneonta - $15,000
To field test an in situ environmental sampling system for organic pollutants for use by citizen monitoring groups.

Westport River Watershed Alliance - $5,000
To add an optical brightener testing component to the water quality sampling protocol to identify sources of contamination from failing septic systems.

NEW HORIZONS PROGRAM
Housatonic River Initiative - $15,000
To promote public involvement in the remediation of the Environmental Protection Agency's "rest of the river" site on the Housatonic River through the design and implementation of a broad-based educational campaign and conference regarding the health and ecological ramifications of the PCB pollution.

Massachusetts Audubon Society- Greater Boston Region - $20,000
To address unsustainable water use in northeastern Massachusetts through a multifaceted regional approach including a school education program, outreach to municipalities, and a targeted campaign to curb summertime outdoor water use.

State University of New York- Stony Brook - $30,000
To determine the potential of Boston Harbor sediments with significant sewage-derived contaminants to cause reproductive impairment and the extent to which the nonionic detergent metabolites, nonylphenol and nonylphenolethoxylates contribute to observed effects.

State University of New York- Oneonta - $19,946
To assess the relationship between selected organic pollutants and mouthpart deformities in Chironimid tentans, a common freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate, leading to expanded research into chironomid biomonitoring techniques.

UMASS/Dartmouth- Department of Chemistry - $20,000
To research the potential use of shell chitin extracted from seafood processing waste to recycle nutrients and water in aquaculture and extract residual dyes from textile wastewater.

YOUTH IN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM
Barnstable County Resource Development - $6,750
To create the Green Grant Youth Council will consist of nine participants from the upper, mid and lower Cape regions and will grant a total of $5,000 to youth-focused projects promoting environmental stewardship on the Cape.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation - $12,000
To add an environmental grantmaking program to the Youth for Community Improvement's current portfolio. The committee, consisting of 22 youth between the ages of 12-18, will organize roundtable discussions with area environmental experts, visit local organizations, conduct site visits, raise public awareness and award $10,000 in environmental grants in the Worcester region.

Hampshire Regional School District - $15,000
To initiate Project SPEAR (Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility), an environmental grantmaking program for middle and high school classrooms in western Massachusetts.

Nuestras Raices - $20,000
To initiate an environmental grantmaking program in Holyoke directed by the 15 members of the Protectores de la Tierra (Protectors of the Earth) youth group. The group will also provide technical assistance to grantees.

Reading Public Schools - $12,000
To create a statewide grantmaking program for students, classes, environmental clubs, and youth groups for the identification, study and protection of vernal pools. The Vernal Pool Association at Reading Memorial High School will implement the program.

Wareham Public Schools - $12,300
To initiate an environmental grantmaking program as part of the Wareham Community Service Learning Program in which middle and high school students will solicit, review and fund peer- and community-generated project that raise environmental awareness and protect Wareham's natural resources.
 

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