Projects
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
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Grant Number: 20090111
To support exhibit enhancements and the production of a grand opening at New Haven City Hall for the Consider the Quinnipiac Campaign photo-based advocacy campaign.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $17,600
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
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www.considerthequinnipiac.com
Grant Number: 20100114
To support a two-day training program for local land use leaders to educate them on the scope of their jurisdiction, the flexibility they have under the law, tools for natural resource and watershed protection and collaborative techniques including consensus building, facilitated decision-making, community participation and effective meetings management.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $7,500
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
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Grant Number: 20100119
To educate fishers on the safe consumption of fish from the Quinnipiac River and to work with the State Department of Environmental Protection to ensure fish signage is posted in fishing areas in common languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Kmer, Lao and Vietnamese.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $13,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Grant Number: 20100120
To support The Friends of the Quinnipiac Project to 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: 2010 | Amount: $16,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20100146
To support the first phase of a riparian buffer research project designed as a public waterfront demonstration park.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $10,000
Yale University - Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20100147
To support the continuation of the ‘Consider the Quinnipiac’ pictorial exhibit tour at the State Capital and at three additional sites including the towns of Wallingford and Cheshire’s libraries.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $8,000
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
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www.ConsidertheQuinnipiac.com
Grant Number: 20110105
To support the Quinnipiac Urban River Stewardship project, which will install several river stewardship signs in prominent locations to promote human links to this urban river and foster stewardship of the shared resource, as recommended in the watershed management plan for a similar urban river, the North Branch of the Park River in Hartford/Bloomfield.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $16,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20110133
To continue to educate fishers on safe consumption of fish by volunteers, bilingual safe fishing signage posted at river locales and by building grassroots support for a new state ban on lead fishing weights in the interest of fishers' and wildlife well-being.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $5,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Grant Number: 20110135
To support the continuation of homeowner workshops which will initiate educational outreach on organic land care to inland/wetland and conservation commissions, including installation and assisting in the development and related outreach of an online turf forum geared towards Connecticut school groundskeepers.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $6,000
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
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