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2 PA Projects Receive TogetherGreen Innovation Grants
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Nearly $1.1 Million in funding from Audubon and Toyota’s Conservation Initiative was awarded through the TogetherGreen Project this week to support local, solutions-based environmental projects nationwide, including two in Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania projects include:
-- Native Woodland Habitat: $45,000 grant to Audubon Society of Western PA to transfer 15 acres of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden into a native woodland habitat garden. Through a partnership with Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and the fifty-year-old social services organization Auberle, up to 100 neglected kids will get to be part of the transformation, visiting the site on field trips, learning about native woodlands, and helping with the reclamation and restoration. Click Here for more.
-- Students for Sustainable Cities: $33,000 grant to The Keystone Center in Pittsburgh to launch Students for Sustainable Cities, a program grounded in scientific investigation and aligned with National Education Standards that will help middle school teachers and their students explore the ways environmental health, social well being, and economic vitality are interconnected. Students taking part in the program will work with community leaders to explore the issues affecting the river and the city, and then commit to taking action on a specific community issue of their choice. Click Here for more.
"Never underestimate ingenuity and innovation. The approaches that will help us tackle the enormous environmental challenges confronting us today are going to come from unlikely and unpredictable places,” said Audubon President David Yarnold. “Each Innovation Grant project is an opportunity for Audubon to partner with local organizations to test and implement creative approaches to build healthier communities and achieve significant conservation results. And as our alliance with Toyota shows, when organizations work together, we can exponentially magnify our impact.”
Since 2008, the TogetherGreen Innovation Grants program has awarded over $4.7 million to more than 160 environmental projects nationwide. The 2011 awardees are receiving grants ranging from $5,000 - $50,000. Funds were awarded to partnerships, mostly between Audubon groups (local Chapters or programs of Audubon’s large national network) and organizations in their communities.
For more information, visit the TogetherGreen Project website.
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