2011

2011 Freshwater Future Special Opportunity Grant Recipients

Bad River Watershed Association
Capacity Assistance: Communications Training
Award: $500

Blanchard River Watershed Partnership
Capacity Assistance: Fundraising/Operations
Award: $500

East Algoma Stewardship Council
Capacity Assistance: Strategic Planning
Award: $400

Environment Erie
Capacity Assistance: Present on Earth Action Project at NAAEE Conference
Award: $500

Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Capacity Assistance: Legal Support
Award: $500

R-CAUSE
Capacity Assistance: Public Forum
Award: $500

Save the Wild UP
Capacity Assistance: Strategic Development
Award: $4,000

Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association
Capacity Assistance: Public Outreach Regarding Regulations on Fracking
Award: $500

Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
Capacity Assistance: Strategic Implementation
Award: $4,500

Fall 2011 Freshwater Future Project Grant Recipients

The Buckeye Forest Council
Project Title: No Frack Ohio Citizen-Advocate Mobilization
Project Award: $5,000

CAFO Awareness Network
Project Title: CAFO Lagoons that are Equitable and Responsible
Project Award: $2,000

Front 40
Project Title: Protect the Menominee River Outreach, Education and Advocacy Project
Project Award: $1,500

Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Grassroots Initiative to Stop an Environmentally-Destructive Road Expansion Project
Project Award: $3,000

Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership
Project Title: Partnership Development for Long-Term Groundwater Protection in Karst Areas
Project Award: $3,000

Lake Superior Watershed Conservancy
Project Title: Engage the Lake Superior South Shore Communities
Project Award: $1,000

Onondaga Creek Conservation Council
Project Title: Wetlands Protection in Upstream Onondaga Creek Watershed
Project Award: $1,500

Save Lake Superior Association
Project Title: Protecting Minnesota's Waters from Sulfide Mining
Project Award: $3,500

Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
Project Title: Holding Kennecott Accountable for Clean Water Act Violations
Project Award: $3,500

Healing Our Waters (HOW) 2011 Grant Recipients

Center for Environmental Information
Project Title: Salmon Creek Watershed Restoration
Project Award: $14,820

Community Action Duluth
Project Title: Initiative to Protect Duluth Stream Corps Investments in Stream Restoration
Project Award: $15,000

Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Detroit River of Area of Concern/GLRI Project Support
Project Award: $8,000

Friends of the Shiawassee River
Project Title: Community Supported Engineering/Feasibility Study for Removal of Owosso Dam
Project Award: $14,180

Great Lakes Lifeways Institute
Project Title: Wild Rice Restoration Feasibility Study in Saginaw Bay
Project Award: $10,000

Huron Pines
Project Title: Rifle River Watershed Project
Project Award: $10,000

Save Our Sodus
Project Title: Prioritization of Best Management Practices for Improving Water Quality in Sodus Bay
Project Award: $14,500

St. Louis River Alliance
Project Title: St. Louis River Area Of Concern Project Support
Project Award: $11,500

Waukegan Harbor Citizen's Advisory Group
Project Title: Waukegan/Bowen Park Massive Storm Damage Clean-Up
Project Award: $10,000

Winous Point Marsh Conservancy
Project Title: Phragmites Control in Western Lake Erie Coastal Wetlands
Project Award: $10,000

Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association
Project Title: Phosphorous/Nitrate Removal by Tile Bioreactors Demonstration Project
Project Award: $15,000

Spring 2011 Freshwater Future Climate Grant Recipients

Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
Project Title: Protecting Cayuga Lake's Creeks from Climate-Change Induced Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Impacts
Project Award: $10,000

Concerned Citizens of Seneca County
Project Title: Understanding and Adapting to Mega-Landfill Waste Impacts to Climate
Project Award: $10,000

Sierra Club
Project Title: Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure Solutions in Addressing Climate Change Impacts
Project Award: $3,275

The Ecologos Institute
Project Title: Water Hour Ontario Youth Initiative
Project Award: $10,000

Lake Erie Waterkeeper
Project Title: Climate Change Impacts on the Tree Canopy in the Maumee River/Bay
Project Award: $10,000

Spring 2011 Freshwater Future Project Grant Recipients

Concerned Citizens of Seneca County
Project Title: Mega-Landfill Waste Impacts to Water Quality and Climate Change
Project Award: $1,500

Environment Minnesota Research and Policy Center
Project Title: Protect the Boundary Waters from Toxic Sulfide Mining Pollution
Project Award: $3,000

Protect JKP
Project Title: Protect and Preserve our Natural Resources by Ensuring Adherence to Federal Regulations
Project Award: $3,000

Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance
Project Title: Developing an Alternative Vision for the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Region
Project Award: $2,500

Water Legacy
Project Title: Civic Advocacy Project
Award: $3,000

Lake Erie Waterkeeper
Project Title: Helping Lake Erie via a New Website and Lake Erie Improvement Forum
Award: $2,500