Assessing High Priority Water Quality Improvement Projects in the Clinton River Watershed The Clinton River Watershed Council will use this grant to collaborate with other organizations in the watershed to (1) identify high-priority, shovel-ready or near shovel-ready projects eligible for federal funding, and (2) modernize existing watershed management plans so they incorporate concerns created by
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Landowner Stewardship Resources Assistance Headwaters will use this grant to launch an educational stewardship-based program to help private landowners in northeastern Michigan improve land management practices. Private land conservation and management will help to create corridors of sustainable habitat to support the growth and preservation of Michigan flora and fauna. Headwaters will offer the program
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Make Food Not Waste on College Campuses Make Food Not Waste will use this grant to create and deliver a behavior change program directed at college students. The purpose of the program is to reduce consumer food waste, which remains the greatest source of food waste in the food system. The program will focus on
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Hunter Park GardenHouse School Field Trip Pilot Program This match grant will leverage funds raised from other sources to expand a field trip program that enables schools and youth groups in the Greater Lansing area to deepen their connection to local food systems and learn about nutrition, botany, and other farm and garden educational topics.
Allen Neighborhood Center – $5,000 Read More »
McLaughlin Grows Educational Garden This match grant will leverage funds raised from other sources to construct a growing space next to an existing community farm in Muskegon. The new space will include no-till farm beds that students from area schools can use to grow and harvest produce that they can take home to their families.
Bethany Housing Ministries dba Community Encompass – $5,000 Read More »
Benton Harbor Justice 40 Initiative: Building Sustainability Capacity MSBF will use this grant to recruit and retain a sustainability project manager to support the City of Benton Harbor and to work alongside local community-based organizations, regional institutional partners, and state/national benefactors to develop and execute climate justice and sustainability programs and initiatives to capture opportunities
Michigan Sustainable Business Forum – $25,000 Read More »
“Hear Me Now:” The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina – Programming at the UM Museum of Art This grant will support educational programming associated with the “Hear Me Now” exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). The programming will be designed in collaboration with exhibition co-curator and UM Professor of
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Developing Edible Education in Greenfield Village 2023 This grant will support the development of the first Edible Education “walkshop” at Greenfield Village to help visitors to the reconstructed Detroit’s Central Market understand how food is grown, prepared, and consumed, and how the food system affects personal, community, and environmental health.
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Straits Area Migration Station This grant will support the purchase of five cellular backpack transmitters (with associated data costs) that researchers at MSU use to track and map the migratory pathways of redtail hawks at the Mackinac Straits.
Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch – $9,300 Read More »
Fostering a Circular Economy Rooted in Regional Food Systems This grant will expand programs that connect small- and medium-sized farmers in northeast Michigan to communities in need of fresh local produce. Project partners will establish pop-up farmers markets in eight communities, connect farmers to food service facilities at senior centers, schools, and other institutions, and
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