Projects

Homeowner workshops on organic land care
Grant Number: 20100144
To support homeowner workshops and outreach and to initiate data analysis and focus group research to design a program to best serve homeowners who want organic land care for their properties.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $5,000
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
Safe Grounds Campaign
Grant Number: 20090109
To support the Safe Grounds Campaign which helps reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers in the Quinnipiac River watershed.  
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $18,000
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Reports: 20090109 Watershed Partnership.pdf
Friends of the Quinnipiac Project
Grant Number: 20090106
To support The Friends of the Quinnipiac Project which will remedy the effects of poor land use practiced by managers and owners of riparian properties through outreach, education, training, public recognition and technical assistance. 
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $15,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Residential organic landscaping workshops and website enhancements
Grant Number: 20090103
To support residential organic landscaping workshops and website enhancements to better serve homeowners of the Quinnipiac River watershed in protecting their health and the environment.  
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $9,000
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Short Courses
Grant Number: 20080160
Funds are requested to support the continuation of short courses concerning river processes to local members of the conservation/inlan wetland commissions and environmental activists.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $8,260
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
General Operating expenses
Grant Number: 20080169
Funds are requested to design and order letterhead, envelopes, postcards, postage and produce mapping for the trail.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $5,000
North Haven Trail Association
Organic Land Care Program
Grant Number: 20080176
Funds are requested to support the implementation of an intensive workshops to teach 100 Connecticut school groundskeepers how to mamnage fields without the use of harmful pesticides.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $6,530
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Reports: 20080176 CT NOFA.pdf
River Processes Short Course
Grant Number: 20070055
Funds are requested to support the offering of a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmental activists. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical, and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will recieve the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $8,064
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Freedom Lawn Campaign
Grant Number: 20070057
Funds are requested to support the continuation and extension of the successful Safe Grounds Campaign in efforts to reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $19,000
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Landscape Structure & Dynamics in Lower Quinnipiac River Marshes
Grant Number: 20070058
Funds are requested to support an environmental study assessing relationships among habitat structure, marsh topography, ecological dynamics and potential conservation initiatives in the Lower Quinnipiac River marshes.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $23,135
University of New Haven