2003

2003 Special Opportunity Grants

Earthology
Project Title: Recruit New Volunteers for Great Lakes Organizations
Grant Award: $500

Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Dinner and Forum Meeting
Grant Award: $500

Erie Streams Association of Volunteer Monitors
Project Title: Data Collection on Lake Erie Basin Streams
Grant Award: $500

Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Professional Fees for Effort to Stop Construction of HWY J
Grant Award: $500

Lone Tree Council
Project Title: Project to Stop Pier Expansion in Bay City
Grant Award: $500

Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Travel costs to Waterkeeper Alliance
Grant Award: $380

Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Project Title: Prevent Bridge Construction Across the Boardman River
Grant Award: $500

Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund
Project Title: Sunoco Refinery Good Neighbor Campaign
Grant Award: $500

Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
Project Title: Ecofluency: the Video
Grant Award: $494

Greg Reisig
Project Title: Advocacy Work at two Endangered Wetland Sites in the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed
Grant Award: $500

Troy Wildlife and Wetlands
Project Title: Grassroots Activism to Protect Aquatic Habitats in the City of Troy, Michigan
Grant Award: $455

Fall 2003 - Grant Recipients

Citizens Environment Watch
Project Title: Changing Currents in the Greater Toronto Area: Strengthening Citizen Involvement in Aquatic Habitat Protection
Grant Award: $2,500

Environmentally Concerned Citizens of the Lakeland Area
Project Title: Shoreland Connection Toolkit and Advocacy Campaign
Grant Award: $2,500

Erie Streams Association of Volunteer Monitors
Project Title: Watershed Awareness and Community Involvement Project
Grant Award: $2,000

Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Partners Fighting the Riverview Trenton Railroad and Supporting the Wildlife Refuge
Grant Award: $3,300

Friends of the Salmon River
Project Title: Protect Deer Creek Marsh, Selkirk Fen, the Salmon River and its estuary
Grant Award: $3,000

Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Grasssroots Initiative to Stop An Environmentally-Destructive Road Expansion Project in Wisconsin
Grant Award: $2,900

Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation
Project Title: Empowering Citizens to Protect Wetlands from Off-Road Vehicle Damage
Grant Award: $3,000

North Shore Watershed Watch
Project Title: Power Analysis of Citizen Opportunities to Shape Policy on Minnesota's North Shore
Grant Award: $3,000

People in Need of Environmental Safety
Project Title: PINES Citizen Empowerment Project
Grant Award: $3,500

Residents for Responsible Government
Project Title: Protecting the Lake Ontario Watershed and the Health of the Community
Grant Award: $3,000

Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Grant Award: $2,700

Troy Wildlife & Wetlands Coalition
Project Title: Grassroots Activism to Protect Aquatic Habitats in the City of Troy, Michigan
Grant Award: $2,000

Waukegan Harbor Citizens' Advisory Group
Project Title: Waukegan Harbor CAG Public Outreach Funding Request
Grant Award: $1,500

White Earth Land Recovery Project
Project Title: Manoomin Ogitchidaag (Defending the Rice) Community Outreach Campaign
Grant Award: $2,500

Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Inc.
Project Title: Hydrology Pan - Yellow Dog Plains
Grant Award: $2,000

Spring 2003 - Grant Recipients

Bi-state Council of Wolf Lake Stewards
Project Title: Development of Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration at Wolf Lake Natural Area Sites
Grant Award: $1000

Residents for Environmental Action & Community Health
Project Title: Implementing More Effective and Less Toxic Methods of Controlling West Nile Virus
Grant Award: $797

Saving Wetlands and Trees in Chesterfield Township, Inc
Project Title: Protecting Chesterfield Township's Wetlands Through Action
Grant Award: $3000

Lone Tree Council
Project Title: The Beauty and Benefits of Saginaw Bay's Coastal Marshes: An Educational Outreach Program
Grant Award: $2800

Save Lake Superior Association
Project Title: Cessation of Wetland Destruction by MNDNR Resulting from Beaver Dam Removal
Grant Award: $2500

Earthology
Project Title: Waterfest: A Great Lakes Wetland Education and Recruitment Campaign
Grant Award: $3000

Canandaigua Lake Watershed Alliance
Project Title: Tracing Toxins in runoff to Canandaigua Lake
Grant Award: $2000

Friends of Sheldon Marsh
Project Title: Legal Intervention Supporting Protection and Restoration of Sheldon Marsh
Grant Award: $3000

Friends of Red Hill Valley
Project Title: Red Hill Valley - No Place for a Road
Grant Award: $3500

Shoreline Stewardship Association of Cloud Bay
Project Title: Cloud Bay Wetland Public Awareness & Long Term Protection Programme
Grant Award: $3000

Grey Association for Better Planning
Project Title: Conserving Ontario's Water Supplies
Grant Award: $3000

Oakvillegreen Conservation Association
Project Title: Saving the Trafalgar Moraine from Encroaching Development
Grant Award: $3300

Junior PA Lake Erie Watershed Association
Project Title: "Making the News" - Project Clean Sweep's public education effort
Grant Award: $2000

Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Building an Internet Community for Lake Superior Waterkeeper
Grant Award: $2750