WATERBURY, CT -- As part of its continued commitment to the environment, Webster Bank today announced it has made a contribution to the East Coast Greenway Alliance for the second year in a row.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2021 Annual Environmental Grants Program, available to non-profit organizations, municipalities, and schools. Applications are due by November 10, 2020.
BRANFORD, CT -- Bees and other natural pollinators are incredibly efficient little critters, but they could always use a little help fulfilling their unique role in the world’s ecosystem — and the Branford Fire Department, working with Sustainable CT, is happy to do what it can to help. Project organizers are asking the community to join the initiative by donating money or volunteering in the effort. All community donations will be doubled by Sustainable CT’s Community Match Fund, funded by the Smart Seed Fund, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Connecticut Green Bank, provides a dollar-for-dollar match to donations raised from the community, doubling local investment in projects.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation is currently seeking nominations for the 2020 Environmental Champion Awards. Nominations are being accepted from now until July 29.
NEW LONDON, CT -- The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut announced today grants of $1,034,525 in support of four strategic priorities: youth empowerment, basic needs and rights, environmental conservation and education, and animal welfare.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation has selected Emma Iovene of The Morgan School in Clinton as recipient of the 2020 Virginia R. Rollefson Environmental Leadership Scholarship.
Funding to study microplastics and other pollutants, advocacy and organizations working to improve the water quality and enjoyment of the Quinnipiac River
MIDDLEFIELD, CT -- Middlefield’s Independent Day School, recipients of the Rockfall Foundation’s Fostering Future Environmental Stewards grant, will be operating a summer camp they’ve named the Love Your Earth Summer Program. The program will run for two weeks during the summer for 24 kids in grades two through four from Middlefield, Durham and Middletown.
Old Saybrook , CT -- Old Saybrook science teachers Karen Carlone and Mary Looney were each awarded a grant from the Rockfall Foundation, a Connecticut non-profit organization with the mission of promoting and supporting environmental education and conversation in the Lower Connecticut River Valley.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation has awarded $50,000 for environmental projects and programs, the largest grant award since inception of the Foundation’s grants program.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation and Connecticut Sea Grant will present “The Birds and The Bees – What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You” on March 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Australia’s summer of bushfires is an ecological, social and economic catastrophe. These unprecedented fires in both their scale and intensity are clearly related to climate change, and its consequences which include prolonged drought, hotter temperatures and a much longer fire season.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- Applications are now being accepted for the Virginia R. Rollefson Environmental Leadership Scholarship, a $1,000 award to recognize leadership and initiative by a high school junior or senior residing in the lower Connecticut River Valley. The application deadline is March 12, 2010.
BRISTOL, CT -- Last evening, December 18th, Main Street Community Foundation presented a $1,000 grant from the Broad View Fund to the City of Bristol Department of Public Works.
ESSEX, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2019 Environmental Champion Awards, to be presented at the foundation’s Annual Meeting, Grants & Awards Celebration on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. Essex Land Trust (ELT) and Pat Young will receive Tom ODell Distinguished Service Awards, honoring their long-term accomplishments in environmental conservation and preservation.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- The Rockfall Foundation recently announced the recipients of its 2019 Environmental Champion Awards, to be presented at the foundation’s annual meeting, Grants & Awards Celebration, at 6 p.m., Oct. 3.