Environmental Advocacy

Consider the Quinnipiac photo exhibit

Organization: 
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
2 500.00
Description: 
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)

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Quinnipiac River Education and Access Program (QREAP)

Organization: 
New Haven Land Trust, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To support the Quinnipiac River Education and Access Program (QREAP) which brings increased public access and ecological research activities to both the Quinnipiac Meadows/Eugene B. Fargegorge and Quinnipiac Ridge Preserves. 

Offered workshops, lectures, canoe clinics and bird walks.

Four day training program for local land use leaders

Organization: 
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
15 000.00
Description: 
To support a four 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 meeting management.  

During the course of the program, the Participants deepened their understanding of the scope of their responsibility and authority under the law, as well as the tools and techniques for fostering collaboration, consensus building, facilitated decision-making, community participation and effective meeting management.

Consider the Quinnipiac photo-based advocacy campaign and grand opening event

Organization: 
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
17 600.00
Description: 
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.  

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Part time staff to assist with outreach and advocacy

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
16 000.00
Description: 
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.

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Continuation of the Consider the Quinnipiac Exhibit Tour

Organization: 
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
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.

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Educational Activities

Organization: 
Schooner, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
To support educational activities taking place on-board the schooner Quinnipiac that will connect students and teachers from upper watershed schools with students and teachers in lower watershed schools.

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Stream Team

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To continue to work on scientifically validated Stream Team assessment program, to redesign the program to use a larger poll of personnel who will learn to perform rapid assessment  in the field to collect baseline and annual data, develop a bioassessment protocol for the salt marsh in the lower river that can be performed by teams, and enlarge citizen "eyes on the river," the Adopt-the-River program, but reorganizing adopters so that they are convened together at least once per year to learn skills of river protection and restoration and to report progress to officials.

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Organize Community

Organization: 
N H  Urban Resources Init.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
3 000.00
Description: 
To organize the community that live in NH QRiver section to learn about the river & establish a permanent advocacy group.

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Protecting Marine Environment

Organization: 
Univ. of Connecticut, Coop. Extension System
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
2 959.55
Description: 
To involve inner city youth in learning about and protecting the marine environment.

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