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

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HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

The Center for Ecological Technology - $33,068
To train obstetricians and nurses about the nexus between water pollutants and children's health and educate pregnant women about the steps they can take to protect their children from avoidable environmental harm.

Center for Health and the Global Environment - $30,000
To raise awareness about the health connections between the citizens of Massachusetts and the marine environment by developing displays for four Massachusetts learning institutions.

City of Somerville - $10,000
To create after school programs for youth and their families raising environmental awareness with a focus on the health of the Mystic River and how the residents affect the well-being of the river.

Clean Water Fund - $35,000
To educate citizens within environmental justice communities to recognize the need for better local water supply protection measures, to reduce potential threats of contamination, and empower them to take action to limit or remove those hazards.

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility - $25,000
To train health care providers to use the "Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit" to educate their patients of the relationship between chemicals that pollute the water and the chronic health problems that result, which will aim to incorporate environmental guidance into everyday practice in Massachusetts.

Housatonic River Initiative - $15,000
To create an interactive web based inventory of the Housatonic River Watershed, monitor the Housatonic River for PCB's and other toxics, and develop a television show about the different issues concerning the river with a focus on PCB's within three communities.

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.

Toxics Action Center - $15,000
To engage residents and neighborhood groups to implement effective strategies to protect their water, their environment, and the health of their families and communities by teaching them skills and leading them to resources that will allow them to have control over future activities in their communities.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

Berlin Memorial School - $8,000
To implement the EIC model as an approach to teach all subjects while instilling a sense of understanding and appreciation of the natural resources in and around Berlin amongst the students.

Boston Harbor Association - $15,000
To support a cleaner Boston Harbor by educating the cruise industry, water transportation operators, boaters, marinas, and yacht clubs about how their activities may adversely impact water quality.

Buttonwood Park Zoological Society - $10,000
To educate children in New Bedford, Fall River, and surrounding communities in the areas of biology, animal sciences, and the environment and instill an overall appreciation and respect for nature accomplished through hands-on learning at the Buttonwood Zoo.

Groundwork Lawrence - $30,000
To promote environmental stewardship that includes extensive outreach and community-based field work through the 'Lawrence Green Team' program.

The Discovery Museums - $19,860
To create engaging and interactive programs where families can learn about water in their everyday life and discover how they can make a difference.

Harvard University - Harvard Forest - $15,200
To educate students K-12 in Franklin County about water resources in their communities, while giving them the opportunity to use Harvard Forest, a professional biological research center, as an instrument to learn environmental education.

Hoosic River Watershed - $12,800
To continue several river awareness education programs and events that include RiverFest, State of the River Conference, River Writing contest, and River Works art display and to engage teachers through workshops and an improved website using the Hoosic River as a focal point for interdisciplinary study.

Katherine Nordell Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies - $18,000
To implement the 'Turn-the Tide Educating Program' in all fifth-grade classrooms in Dartmouth, which will illustrate information about watersheds and how scientists measure and characterize the health of the estuaries.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $15,000
To implement and promote the Scorecard (a tool that will produce a single, quantitive assessment of a parcel of land's conservation value) and to educate stakeholders about the biological and ecological factors that should be considered when selecting conservation land for purchase.

Massachusetts Audubon Society - $12,128
To educate the residents in the Ipswich River Watershed about the effects of water withdrawals on the endangered Ipswich River by creating an two videos, one for local cable television and the other for middle school teachers.

Massachusetts Bays Estuary Association - $25,000
To fund segment 1 of the ThinkBlue Massachusetts Bays stormwater education outreach campaign, which will educate the public about polluted stormwater runoff and provide citizens of the Commonwealth with the knowledge and skill to become responsible environmental stewards.

Massachusetts Global Action - $21,000
To support "Our Communities, Our Water", a project designed to identify community stakeholders and bring them into decision-making positions concerning water conservation.

Nashua River Watershed Association - $20,000
To continue a partnership between NRWA and the J.R. Briggs Elementary School giving professional support to all EIC teachers by providing an EIC teacher workshop and meetings.

North and South Rivers Watershed Association - $15,000
To develop a model bylaw that will allow municipalities to regulate landscaping practices to better conserve and protect water resources.

The Orion Society - $10,000
To incorporate lessons from wetlands that abuts the Berkshire Hills Regional Schools Complex creating the first stage of an environmental education project.

Somali Development Center - $15,000
To implement an environmental education campaign for Somali immigrants focusing on the basics of Massachusetts waterway systems and protecting communal water resources.

Somerville Arts Council - $7,000
To support the Mystic Mural Arts Project through which youth are directed by an environmental educator and artist to learn first-hand about the Mystic River and work with the muralist to memorialize their experiences by adding to a mural that presently adorns the walls of Mystic Avenue.

The Trust for Public Land - $23,600
To engage local citizens and stakeholders in a public process that influences the development strategies for protecting land and water resources in the Connecticut River region of Massachusetts.

YWCA of Lowell - $5,000
To support Project Splash, an after school and summer youth environmental education initiative for at-risk youth.

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY PROGRAM

Deerfield River Watershed Association - $15,000
To inventory and remove Knotweed in selected riparian zones of rivers and streams, to conduct an outreach program, and to design a management plan for Knotweed and other invasive species.

Farmington River Watershed Association - $15,000
To establish a stormwater monitoring program that will assess the impacts of sand and salt on the watershed and conduct workshops to educate the citizens of the value of streamside buffers.

Georgia Environmental Policy Institute - $2,600
To publish four issues of Right Whale News in 2006 and continue to expand both coverage and distribution of the newsletter.

Massachusetts Audubon Society - $20,000
To collect data on wintering sea ducks in Nantucket Sound that will help determine if industrial and urban development on Cape Cod and the Islands result in the degradation of habitat quality of the Sound.

Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit - $16,885
To study and characterize the habitat of the frosted elfin, a rare sandplains butterfly, and then use the information to guide land managers to maintain the ecological integrity of sandplain communities.

Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries - $16,000
To study the sand tiger shark and the great white shark by deploying four transmitting tags on the sharks to gather information and answer questions on the biology, distribution, migration, and essential habitat of these two species.

Mystic River Watershed Association - $26,000
To develop and distribute the Mystic Report Card and continue water quality monitoring in the Mystic River.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Inc. - $10,000
To implement a comprehensive inventory, monitoring, and prescribed fire management on 430 acres of property at Head of the Plains on Nantucket Island.

National Park Service, Cape Cod National Seashore - $10,000
To support the survey of rare Lepidoptera that may be affected by proposed tidal restoration of Wellfleet's' Herring River and Truro's East Harbor Estuaries.

New England Wildflower Society - $25,000
To promote early detection and rapid response in controlling Japanese stilt grass and conduct outreach to the communities infected by the infestations.

Opacum Land Trust - $10,000
To create a Master Plan, to protect the ecological sensitive resources in East Brookfield, MA.

Organization for the Assabet River - $10,000
To develop a long-term monitoring strategy in the Assabet River that will establish baseline conditions for aquatic plant biomass and instream nutrient concentrations against which future improvements of the river's condition can be measured.

University Of Massachusetts - Amherst- $25,000
To continue a long-term intensive study that examines the issues of dispersal and metapopulation viability in vernal pool breeding amphibians, focusing on the Massachusetts threatened marbled salamander.