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

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HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

Wildlife Coalition - $43,350 over three years
To develop and employ protocols utilizing established on the water Sea Tow commercial assistance vessels as emergency response and entanglement standby vessels in the period between initial entangled whale report and arrival of authorized disentanglement teams.

Mass Audubon Society - $50,000 over two years
To carry out an inventory of a key indicator of aquatic ecosystem health – dragonflies and damselflies – on Human health and the Environment.

The Boston Harbor Association - $10,000
To educate the Asian fishing community about safe places to fish and harvest shellfish, and to educate Asian consumers and clients of health facilities which serve large Asian populations about the importance of purchasing fish and shellfish from licensed shellfish dealers and supermarkets.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $25,000
To improve water resources and other environmental assets of the state by investigating the parallels between wildlife and human health effects from non-acute exposure to cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides, and by disseminating the results to pesticide regulators, public health officials, water/wildlife resource managers, and constituent communities.

Silent Spring Institute - $25,000
To examine endocrine disrupting compounds and their proxies in private wells used for drinking water on Cape Cod.

Concerned Citizens of Freetown - $20,000
To educate and mobilize local residents so that they can identify and protect wetlands through a tire cleanup, workshops on environmental justice and wetlands, and negotiations with town officials on zoning and proper land uses.

Alternatives for Community & Environment - $20,000
To develop and implement a hands-on water quality and environmental justice curriculum and projects for a youth education leadership program.

Groundwork Lawrence, Inc. - $15,000
To engage residents adjacent to Lawrence’s Spicket River to alter the pervasive practice of dumping in and around the river through direct outreach and education in community health b benefits of a cleaner neighborhood and river environs, collaboration with the City’s Department of Inspectional Services, and presentation of alternative disposal means.

Toxics Action Center - $20,000
To help neighborhoods improve the quality of life in their communities through education about the skills and resources necessary to have more control over future issues and activities in their communities.

Mystic River Watershed Association - $25,000
To provide education and outreach to citizens of the watershed whose use of the water resources may present public health risks.

Military Waste Cleanup Program, Mt. Holyoke College - $35,000
To investigate, analyze, and create public awareness and outreach programs on TCE and its effect on Massachusetts’ groundwater resources and public health.

Connecticut River Watershed Council - $16,975
To conduct the East Deerfield Railyard Groundwater Pollution Monitoring and Remediation Project which is a community based initiative to address and resolve a significant threat to water quality and the environment due to spilled diesel fuel and chlorinated solvents.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

Island Alliance - $23,000
To work with area schools to offer project-driven interdisciplinary programs related to the rich resources of the Boston Harbor Islands.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing - $50,000 over two years
To support the Chelsea Creek Action Group’s environmental youth program component of the Chelsea Creek Restoration Project, which seeks to transform the neglected, contaminated Chelsea Creek into an environmental, educational, recreational, and economic resource for the community.

Gulf of Maine Institute - $40,000 over two years
To prepare future stewards of the Gulf of Maine watershed through an intensive summer residential leadership institute and by sponsoring and providing technical support to adult/youth partnerships working intensely at the local level on community-based watershed issues and projects throughout the year.

Westport River Watershed Alliance - $10,000
To foster environmental stewardship among students of all ages through its Watershed Education Program.

Wheelock College - $20,000
To refocus components of the WhaleNet program so that they are based more on data collected from Massachusetts’s coastal waters and are concerned more with inhabitants of regional waters through the MA Coastal Environment Education Program.

Tsongas Industrial History Center - $18,800 over two years
To support organizing a Regional Environmental Education Alliance in the Greater Lowell Area and to conduct a three-day groundwater/watershed institute and to resurrect an annual Watershed Congress for Greater Merrimack Valley Middle and High School students where students will showcase ongoing water resource projects.

Housatonic Valley Association - $22,795
To improve public awareness of polluted run-off and actively involve residents in reducing the problem through the Storm Drain Awareness Program and the
Vegetative Buffer Awareness Program.

Farmington River Watershed Association - $16,000
To provide watershed education curricular materials and training for at least 10 teachers in the schools within the Massachusetts section of the Farmington watershed through the Farmington River Watershed Education Project.

Mass Bays Program - $8,000
To support the printing and distribution of a Proceedings document with the intent of promoting the findings presented at the State of the Bays Symposium.

YMCA of Lowell - $5,000
To create a ‘living lab’ for Project Splash students to learn about fish habitat and ecosystems.

Athol Bird and Nature Club - $50,000 over two years
To further develop and implement local studies in area classrooms over the next two years, continuing support for teachers in Orange and expanding to include teachers from the surrounding towns of Warwick, Royalston, and Athol.

Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions - $38,300
To conduct a major overhaul of MACC’s Environmental Handbook for Massachusetts Conservation Commissioners that will serve to provide “Enhanced Educational Resources for Conservation Commissioners.”

Nuestras Raices - $48,000 over two years
To support ‘Protectores de la Tierra’ where inner city youth learn about and steward land by the Connecticut River, then provide tours, workshops and activities to youth and adults throughout Holyoke.

Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance - $50,000 over two years
To develop a matrix of learning activities that are collaborative, aligned to the State Learning Standards in math and science, and focus on the local environment of Southeastern MA through an outline of scope and sequence of learning activities grade by grade and subject by subject, including the Massachusetts Environmental Benchmarks, that will effectively address the goal of improving student learningnd connecting schools, teachers, and students to the place they live.

HOBBES, Inc. - $7,500
To develop two science curriculum units linking current marine conservation and science activities with secondary school curriculum for students in North Shore communities.

Nashua River Watershed Association - $18,500
To coordinate on delivering education to students (K-7th) about water quality issues and non-point source pollution in a rapidly developing area of the Commonwealth.

Nashua River Watershed Association - $20,000
To assist model schools in the watershed in meeting state learning standards through the EIC approach as outlined in the Massachusetts Environmental Education Plan.

Berlin Memorial School - $3,500
To provide professional development for two faculty members at the Berlin Memorial School as the first step in the implementation of the EIC model.

Friends of WFCR, Inc. - $15,000
To produce a weekly 3 – 5 minute radio series called Field Notes that highlights important natural areas, special organisms, and the work of local environmental experts across Massachusetts.

Dartmouth YMCA - $5,335
To implement a multi-side biodiversity and water quality-monitoring program for middle school students based upon the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and the Massachusetts Environmental Education Plan.

Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies - $19,560
To study the effectiveness of the Massachusetts Environmental Education Plan as it relates to the goals of in-service education and incorporation of environmental concepts in education reform through surveys and follow-up interviews and a review of literature prepared by the Commonwealth, individual teachers, REEAs, and other agencies.

The Environmental Learning & Action Center - $21,000
To conduct a partnership project with Odyssey High School that will involve high school students in a marine biodiversity learning-to-action biweekly after school program leading to the creation of a community hands-on exhibit.

Riverways Program - $24,745.70
To convene a series of community “charrettes” to engage individuals and civic groups in the lower Neponset River in an innovative community decision-making process that integrates ecological restoration and environmental cleanup of PCBs in an urban river.

Mass Audubon - $26,000 over two years
To develop a media campaign that addresses non-point source pollution and storm water volume; work with the Blackstone Headwaters Water Quality Monitoring Team to monitor wet weather events for bacteria and turbidity; bring people to the waterways through canoe programs, van tours, and school programs, and to promote smart growth strategies to limit impervious surfaces and reduce impacts.

Charles River Conservancy - $28,000
To enhance the adult watershed education that occurs through the Conservancy Volunteers Program with special emphasis on corporate groups.

The Walden Woods Project - $18,515
To expose school-based teams of middle school teachers to the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau and lead them through the multiple opportunities that his philosophy offers to use nature, with an emphasis on water, place, and community as integrating concepts in middle school education.

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY PROGRAM

Great Barrington Land Conservancy - $14,000
To support ‘River Walk’, an intensive hands-on volunteer effort to reclaim an abused riparian section of the Housatonic River in downtown Great Barrington, to secure public access, and to provide a ½ miles walking trail along the river.

MA Coop Fish & Wildlife Research Unit - $50,000 over two years
To combine modeling, citizen science, and extensive field surveys to identify potential viable Blanding’s turtle populations across their Massachusetts range.

The Nature Conservancy - $60,500 over two years
To control invasive species at Sandy Neck, a regionally significant barrier beach system on Cape Cod, and to educate the community about the value of the ecosystem.

Division of Marine Fisheries - $36,475
To utilize vessel and aerial-based survey and research oriented efforts for surveillance that rely on visual sightings to determine right whale densities and utilize habitat analysis to make prediction of right whale densities and distributions.

Railroad Street Youth Project - $60,000 over three years
To establish a permanent native-plant wetlands demonstration garden, seed bank, and educational materials as part of Project Native’s native-plant facility.

Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies - $25,000
To determine the current distribution of Nantucket’s rare moths and butterflies as well as assess the impacts of burning versus mowing the habitat of these species.

Athol Bird and Nature Club - $29,990
To inventory a representative set of ponds in the Worcester Plateau Ecoregion in order to estimate components of biodiversity with the intent of documenting landscape scale diversity patterns and exploring the relative contributions of alpha and beta diversity to regional diversity.

New England Wild Flower Society, Inc. - $28,044
To survey 80 water bodies in the lower Connecticut River Valley for the presence of water chestnut and other highly invasive aquatic species, as an early detection system for these species to prevent further infestation of the region’s water resources.

Neponset River Watershed Association - $12,000
To conduct a pilot survey of the locations, safety, and ecological impact of dams in the East Branch of the Neponset Watershed.

MA Division of Marine Fisheries - $38,000 over two years
To deploy six pop-up archival transmitting tags on basking sharks to answer important questions on the biology, distribution, migrations, and essential habitats in comparison with the right whale.

MA Aquatic Conservation Society - $5,000
To document and assess the state’s loon population to increase our knowledge of factors affecting loons and allow us to more effectively use our limited resources to safeguard populations of loon sand other aquatic animals.

Umass - Amherst - $25,000
To continue a long-term intensive study examining the critical issues of dispersal and metapopulation viability in vernal pool breeding amphibians.

Tufts University - $29,879 over two years
To determine the status and population trends of sate-listed cryptic marsh birds in Massachusetts, determine the status of a marsh bird being considered for listing, and evaluate marsh characteristics associated with occupancy for each species.

Marine Biological Laboratory - $61,340 over three years
To establish a research, education and outreach program to provide scientific information that will be applied to the management and conservation of coastal plain ponds and their watersheds.

Franklin Land Trust - $24,000 over three years
To continue a 3-year study on the population dynamics of six state-listed dragonfly species and the effects of bank stabilization on emerging dragonflies.

Parker River Clean Water Association - $24,348
To provide protection of state listed threatened freshwater turtles whose aquatic habitats are threatened by development and by low flow through the creation of a nest protection and hatchling monitoring model in a heavily used recreation area for Blanding’s and spotted turtle that emphasizes community outreach, education, and citizen science.

The Lobster Conservancy - $10,000
To conduct a census of the next generation of lobsters through the Juvenile Lobster Monitoring Project, a project that trains citizen volunteers in a rigorous scientific methodology that censuses intertidal lobster nursery sites.

Trustees of the Berkshire Museum - $7,500
To continue the ‘Head Start’ program for the Plymouth Red-Bellied turtle which provides hatchlings with a head start in life by providing a warm, predator free environment and a constant supply of food.

Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program - $50,000
To refine and expand our knowledge of rare species of aquatic and wetland systems by building on recommendations of the Living Waters and BioMap reports, and to help guide the implementation of our conservation plans in those reports.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund - $45,000 over three years
To support community-based, volunteer initiatives in Massachusetts that are working on protection of the quality and quantity of the state’s ground, surface, and marine waters through the grant program.