Awarded Grants

Environment

• Alaska Conservation Foundation

  Anchorage, Alaska

  Operating support.

  $25,000

• American Farmland Trust

  Washington, DC

  Ohio office operating support.

  $70,000 over 2 years

• Buckeye Environmental Network

  Grove City, Ohio

  People Power project.

  $30,000

• Buckeye Forest Council, Inc.

  Columbus, Ohio

  Forest protection on public land.

  $25,000

• Center for Health Environment and Justice

  Falls Church, Virginia

  Stop Dioxin Exposure Campaign.

  $40,000

• Center for Public Interest Research, Inc.

  Boston, Massachusetts

  Project to advocate

  $25,000

• Chagrin River Watershed Partners, Inc.

  Willoughby, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $40,000 over 2 years

• Citizens Policy Center

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Campaign contributions disclosure in Ohio.

  $43,000

• Citizens Policy Center

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Statewide program to execute “good neighbor agreements” with industrial facilities.

  $48,000

• Cleveland Metroparks System

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Planning for greenway along the east branch of the Rocky River.

  $50,000

• Cleveland Museum of Natural History

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Conference on West Nile Virus.

  $1,000

• Cleveland Museum of Natural History

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Ohio Conservation Alliance.

  $5,250

• Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc.

  Miami, Florida

  Strategic Assessment Project.

  $6,500

• Cuyahoga Countryside Conservancy

  Peninsula, Ohio

  Re-establishment of farmsteads in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

  $45,000

• Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $25,000

• Earth Day Coalition

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $120,000 over 2 years

• EcoCity Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Building the Livable Urban Edge BLUE Project.

  $110,000

• EcoCity Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $65,000

• EcoCity Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Green building strategies for the Cleveland Municipal School District.

  $7,000

• Ecological Design Innovation Center

  Oberlin, Ohio

  Northern Ohio Foodshed Alliance.

  $15,000

• Environmental and Energy Study Institute

  Washington, DC

  Policymaker briefings on energy and smart growth.

  $40,000

• Environmental Fund for Ohio

  Columbus, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $35,000

• Environmental Health Watch Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Healthy Indoor Environments for Children project.

  $100,000 over 2 years

• Environmental Law Institute

  Washington, DC

  Federal and state policy research on invasive species control.

  $25,000

• Environmental Support Center, Inc.

  Washington, DC

  Operating support.

  $40,000

• Environmental Working Group

  Washington, DC

  Lead poisoning prevention program in Ohio.

  $45,000

• Foundation for Environmental Education

  Columbus, Ohio

  Wind Powering Ohio project.

  $5,000

• Grand River Partners, Inc.

  Painesville, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $30,000 over 2 years

• Great Lakes United

  Amherst, New York

  Great Lakes Action Agenda.

  $2,000

• Great Lakes United

  Amherst, New York

  Habitat and Biodiversity Taskforce.

  $50,000

• Green Energy Ohio

  Columbus, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $25,000

• Heartwood, Incorporated

  Bloomington, Indiana

  Operating support.

  $20,000 over 2 years

• Institute for Conservation Leadership

  Takoma Park, Maryland

  Great Lakes Executive Director Training Program.

  $100,000 over 18 months

• International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals

  Cumberland, Ohio

  Center for Restoration Ecology.

  $96,000 over 2 years

• Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

  Washington, DC

  Ohio land trust training and technical assistance.

  $45,000

• League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Inc.

  Washington, DC

  Facilitation of an Ohio coalition on energy issues.

  $5,000

• League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Inc.

  Washington, DC

  List enhancement, SOAP Project, coalition-building and leadership development in Ohio.

  $50,000

• Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

  Columbus, Ohio

  Policymaker education on smart growth in Ohio.

  $47,067

• National Audubon Society

  New York, New York

  Bird conservation programs in Ohio.

  $48,000

• National Wildlife Federation

  Reston, Virginia

  Great Lakes Mercury Phaseout Project.

  $40,000

• Natural Resources Council of America, Inc.

  Washington, DC

  Leadership Roundtable.

  $20,000

• Ohio & Erie Canal Corridor Coalition, Inc.

  Akron, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $46,000 over 2 years

• Ohio Lake Management Society

  Kent, Ohio

  Citizen Lake Awareness and Monitoring program in Northeast Ohio.

  $5,000

• Ohio League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

  Columbus, Ohio

  Legislative Agenda Setting Summit.

  $2,000

• Ohio League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

  Columbus, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $50,000

• Ohio Parklands Foundation

  Westerville, Ohio

  Ohio Greenways project.

  $50,000

• Ohio River Advocacy

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Ohio River basin conservation coordination and technical assistance.

  $25,000

• Ohio to Erie Trail Fund

  Columbus, Ohio

  Field consultants.

  $5,000

• Outdoor Writers of Ohio

  Willoughby, Ohio

  Annual convention and educational program.

  $2,000

• River Network

  Portland, Oregon

  National River Rally scholarships for Great Lakes river conservation activists and Clean Water Act online tutorial project.

  $30,000

• Rivers Unlimited

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Ohio Environmental Enforcement Campaign.

  $25,000

• Safe Energy Communication Council

  Washington, DC

  Operating support.

  $40,000

• Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Project.

  $25,000

• Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Project.

  $6,250

• St. Clair-Superior Coalition

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Environmental Issues Organizing Project.

  $35,000

• Surface Transportation Policy Project

  Washington, DC

  Smart Growth America.

  $50,000

• The Clean Air Conservancy

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cleveland ozone database project.

  $50,000

• The Delta Institute

  Chicago, Illinois

  Lake Erie Fish Consumption Advisory project.

  $45,000

• The Friends of the Crooked River, Inc.

  Peninsula, Ohio

  Organizational planning.

  $15,000

• The Greene Environmental Coalition, Inc.

  Yellow Springs, Ohio

  Cleanup 2000 Project.

  $35,000

• The Izaak Walton League of America, Inc.

  Gaithersburg, Maryland

  Great Lakes Wetland Conservation Policy Workshop.

  $4,000

• The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Air quality project.

  $1,750

• The Regents of the University of Michigan

  Ann Arbor, Michigan

  Great Lakes Radio Consortium training for environmental journalists.

  $25,000

• The Sierra Club Foundation

  San Francisco, California

  Wayne National Forest management plan.

  $1,500

• The Sierra Club Foundation

  San Francisco, California

  Great Lakes Clean Air Program in Ohio.

  $30,000

• The Society of Environmental Journalists Inc.

  Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

  Conference scholarships for Ohio journalists.

  $7,200

• Tides Center

  San Francisco, California

  Funders Forum on Environment and Education Wingspread Symposium on Healthy Schools.

  $6,000

• Trust for Public Land

  San Francisco, California

  Revolving loan fund for open space purchase in Northeast Ohio.

  $150,000

• Trust for Public Land

  San Francisco, California

  Ohio office operating support.

  $50,000

• Union of Concerned Scientists

  Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Federal policy research and education on invasive species control.

  $25,000

• University of Vermont

  Burlington, Vermont

  Earth Shareholders Report.

  $30,000

• Water Watch of Oregon

  Portland, Oregon

  Operating support.

  $25,000

• West Creek Preservation Committee

  Parma, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $50,000 over 2 years

• Western Reserve RC&D, Inc.

  Painesville, Ohio

  Center for Farmland Preservation in Northeast Ohio.

  $48,000

• Western Reserve RC&D, Inc.

  Painesville, Ohio

  Countryside Program to promote residential conservation development.

  $60,000

• Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, Inc.

  Silver Spring, Maryland

  Cuyahoga Valley Partnership program to restore habitat on corporate land.

  $20,000

• Worldwatch Institute

  Washington, DC

  Rebuilding Local Foodsheds workshop in Cleveland.

  $1,000