Benton Harbor Water Council
Amount: $1500
Project Title: Identity Lead Lines for Replacement and Inform Benton Harbor Residents
Project Description: With the use of technology it will augment the council’s efficiency while relaying messages to the community and utilize the database to keep a closer relationship with the pulse of the city. Documentation and tools will be developed.
Canadian Environmental Law Foundation
Amount: $22500
Project Title: Lead-Free Drinking Water for all in Ontario
Project Description: The ultimate goal of the campaign is to seek replacement of all lead service lines in Ontario. To move toward accomplishing this goal, we will seek to increase public awareness, improve consistency in testing and reporting, and remove the cost barriers.
Illinois Environmental Council
Amount: $22500
Project Title: Traditional and Digital Communications Training
Project Description: In order to strengthen our movement throughout the state and amplify our voices, IEC would like to work with Gud Marketing to develop a communications workshop series for our affiliates.
PennFuture
Amount: $22500
Project Title: Increasing Public Dialogue Around Protecting Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie Watershed
Project Description: To increase awareness of the threats and continue to build a constituency around addressing these threats.. PennFuture plans to establish coordinated social media sites on several platforms as a means of educating a more diverse constituency.
Midwest Environmental Advocates
Amount: $22500
Project Title: PFAS Citizens Call-to-Action: Campaign to Demand Municipal Testing for PFAS Paa
Project Description: Midwest Environmental Advocates (MEC) proposes to work with partner organizations and engage citizens throughout Wisconsin to demand that local and state regulators take action to address the contamination of our natural resources.
Northeast-Midwest Institute
Amount: $22500
Project Title: Advancing Awareness and Knowledge of the Water Affordability Crisis in the Regio
Project Description: The proposed communications work will endeavor to utilize media outreach, social media, and online programs such as policy webinars to disseminate critical policy information on water affordability. The goal will be to reach new audiences with research.
We The People of Detroit
Amount: $22500
Project Title: Outreach for Water Affordability
Project Description: The project will create a steady drumbeat of public outreach regarding the importance of affordable water in communities across the country.
The Junction Coalition
Amount: $5000
Project Title: Environmental Justice and the Cost of Water
Project Description: The Junction Coalition requests funding to continue discussion of a moratorium on residential water shutoffs, to address lead infrastructure in the aging homes, and to provide sink filtration apparatus for drinking water.
Wellington Water Watchers
Amount: $3000
Project Title: Protecting Our Waterways
Project Description: The scope of the work entails retaining a lawyer for legal advice, review of documents, and assistance with producing public education materials to stop a proposed deep geological repository for irradiated nuclear fuel bundles.
Lake Erie Waterkeeper
Amount: $3500
Project Title: Tracking Changes in the Sandusky River Watershed with the Use of Technology
Project Description: The project will study and map/report on the CAFO, and as a result, manure changes in the Sandusky River using a tool created by ELPC that uses satellite and other technology.
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Amount: $5000
Project Title: Flint Community Lab Training
Project Description: Evergreen Community Development Initiative is requesting $5,000 to support training of nine Flint students in community outreach, communications, and proper lab techniques.
Benton Harbor Water Council
Amount: $5000
Project Title: General Support
Project Description: The procurement of funds under this grant serve the purpose of assisting the Benton Harbor community Water Council (BHWC) with expenditures related to the water distribution center operation.
The Junction Coalition
Amount: $1531.14
Project Title: Affordability Assessment Program
Project Description: Junction Coalition will work with the Toledo Water Council to help community members understand the affordability assessment and eventual affordability program to ensure community members are able to take advantage of the outcomes.
Benton Harbor Water Council
Amount: $2400
Project Title: Compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule
Project Description: The Benton Harbor Community Water Council will continue its efforts to work with state regulators and the City to ensure compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule and to provide education regarding leaks in the system and lead pipe changes for community residents.
Dungytreei Heritage Foundation
Amount: $500
Project Title: Drinking Water for Jackson
Project Description: Lead testing in Blackman Township, Michigan revealed concerns with the City of Jackson’s water.
Nearby Nature Milwaukee
Amount: $500
Project Title: Nearby Nature Database Project
Project Description: Nearby Nature Milwaukee plans to develop a database of environmental organizations and individuals in the community so that members of the community can easily find support.
The Junction Coalition
Amount: $1000
Project Title: General Operating Funds
Project Description: General Operating Funds from a gift from the Alliance for the Great Lakes.
Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation
Amount: $2000
Project Title: Protect Niagara Escarpment & Headwaters of Pretty River
Project Description: Participate with Party status at the Niagara Escarpment Hearing Office (NEHO) hearing on the proposal by the Township of Clearview to upgrade a summer-only road to a year-round road.
Friends of the Black River Forest
Amount: $3000
Project Title: Saving Rare Lake Michigan Dunes and Wetlands from a Golf Course Development
Project Description: The Friends of the Black River Forest will use this grant to support their ongoing legal action to save the Lake Michigan shoreline as well as the Black River from a private golf course development.
Sterling Water Stewards
Amount: $4500
Project Title: Developing Fact-Based Strategies for Protecting a Sole-Source Municipal Aquifer
Project Description: Funds will be used to protect the recharge area of the sole source aquifer supplying drinking water to the Village of Fair Haven and portions of the rural Town of Sterling from a proposed bottling plant that could threaten both supply and quality of public water.
Wellington Water Watchers
Amount: $3000
Project Title: Protecting Groundwater& Communities: The Grassroots Push for an Aggregate Moratorium
Project Description: The Wellington Water Watchers is working with five different grassroots groups on the frontlines, all with direct connections to & concerns about the impacts of aggregate mining to the rivers & aquifers that supply drinking water.
WaterLegacy
Amount: $4500
Project Title: Reverse the Mine Water Permit
Project Description: In 2021, WaterLegacy’s objective is to secure a Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling reversing the water pollution permit issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in December 2018 for this mine.
Michigan Hydro Relicensing Coalition
Amount: $4500
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Participation at Michigan Hydropower Projects
Project Description: This project will follow three hydropower projects seeking re-licensing.
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