Mini-Grant Recipients
2024
New Milford High School
Increasing Environmental Literacy
Pair classroom learning with hands-on experiences in a school garden to foster student appreciation of what goes into the food that winds up on their plates.
2023
Community Placemaking Engagement Network (CPEN)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
This project will continue increasing awareness and understanding of climate change-affected, water-related risks as a way to mobilize New Haven residents to participate in community-led actionable solutions and stewardship.
2023
East End NRZ Market & Café
Increasing Environmental Literacy
This project revolves around food waste diversion and compost education, while providing the resources and tools for the historically disadvantaged community of West Bridgeport to compost and reduce their individual waste production.
2024
Woodcock Nature Center
Increasing Environmental Literacy
Support for bird-related educational signs along the Center’s trails, deepening of bird-related conservation programming by providing tools for their education team to utilize while teaching and by adding to passive educational opportunities along Woodcock’s four miles of publicly accessible trails.
2023
Lots of Fish
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
This project will continue addressing resilience to climate change, long-term sustainability, and environmental justice through public art and stormwater education, as a community-driven project in the West End of Bridgeport.
2021
Everyone Outside
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Everyone Outside worked in with Kamora's Cultural Corner, which provided DEIJ training to all their camp staff, as well as weekly, age appropriate DEIJ workshops for 90 individual campers (ages 4-15) throughout the summer. Kamora also helped camp staff navigate cultural issues on a case-by-case basis as situations arose throughout the summer.




