Projects

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
Training Program
Grant Number: 20080162
Funds are requested to support the implementation of a four-day training program to educate land use leaders.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $15,000
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
Quinnipiac River stories
Grant Number: 20080172
Funds are requested to support the publishing of six in-depth stories including 240 photographs about the Quinnipiac River and its surrounding environment.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $3,000
Fair Haven Housing Initiative/Grand News
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
Aerial photography for Consider the Quinnipiac photo-based awareness campaign
Grant Number: 20080287
Additional funding is requested to cover the cost for aerial shots for the "Consider the Quinnipiac" Campaign. Aerial photographs would provide documentation access to areas not readily seen from land level.  (See grant 20070065)
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $1,000
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Consider the Quinnipiac photo exhibit
Grant Number: 20080286
Additional funding is requested to support addtions and enhancements of the "Consider the Quinipiac" Campaign. Enhancements will include the photo exhibit, grand opening, expansion of photo documentation time, and photo stories.  (see grant 20070065)
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $2,500
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
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
Inter-Revenue Municipal Shared Land Use
Grant Number: 20070062
Funds are requested to support continued efforts to develop and aopt an inter-municipal tax revenue sharing agreement and shared land use plan among the reigion's five municipalities bordering the Quinnipiac River. Related activities under this project will include assessments on key properties along the river, community outreach, and planning for a new canoe launch site in North Haven.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $500
Rex Development (formerly known as South Central CT Regional Econ. Develop. Corp)
Quinnipiac Watershed Stream Buffer Initiative (Phase II)
Grant Number: 20070064
Funds are requested to support organization and implementation of outreach and advocacy for the Quinnipiac Watershed Stream Buffer Initiative (Phase II) and regular grassroots events.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $16,500
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association