We received applications for project totaling $13,000.00 and were able to fund the projects listed below within our budget of $7,500.00.
Brown Charitable Trust | $1,000 | To increase the number of nesting boxes and feeders, replace older ones and purchase birdseed on property in Griswold, CT |
Litchfield Hills Audubon | $250 | To expand pollinator gardens at Wigwam Brook in Litchfield, CT |
Avalonia Land Trust | $500 | To install Screech Owl boxes on trust property |
Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire | $500 | For the Cheshire pollinator pathway |
Aaron Scott | $1000 | To establish a bird friendly ecosystem around a pond that he has restored which had a broken dam and sluice system |
Abington Cemetery Association | $500 | To install 6 Bluebird boxes in the historic cemetery |
Horizon Wings | $500 | To provide food and medical supplies for birds in rehabilitation |
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy | $750 | To expand the Litchfield Pollinator Pathway project within their 16-acre aviary |
Roaring Brook Nature Center | $1000 | For an avian ICU and oxygen concentrator |
Woodcock Nature Center | $500 | To install 5 nest boxes on its 150-acre preserve |
Simsbury Pollinator Pathway | $1,000 | Toward the long-term project making the Triangle Meadow in Simsbury into a protected grassland sanctuary |
Mini-Grant Committee: Kathy Van Der Aue (retiring chair), Allison Black (incoming chair), Melissa Baston, Angela Dimmit, Miley Bull.