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Nonprofit Funding Area

Environment Long Island

Learn more about how we fund the environment on Long Island. To see what else we fund, explore the Info for Nonprofits page.  

A family caring for a garden 
Changehampton LTD.: $20,000 to create a community pollinator garden and promote sustainable landscaping practices. Photo Credit: Changehampton LTD  

Funding Details

Program goal

 To protect and preserve Long Island’s natural resources, healthy ecosystems, and public health.

Grants are made to

  • Promote sustainable land use, land management, and transportation alternatives.
  • Support and strengthen open space and farmland preservation efforts.
  • Improve and protect the health (or resiliency) of the region’s bodies of water.
  • Protect drinking water quality.
  • Preserve biological diversity through habitat conservation and protection.
  • Minimize climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the development of alternative energy sources and energy conservation, research, and public education.

 

Grants are made for one year at a time; proposals submitted for renewed funding are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, but only after a final report on the use of the previous grant has been received and approved by Trust staff.

Recent grants

Organization Summary

ChangeHampton

to create a community pollinator garden and promote sustainable landscaping practices

Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Inc

to use floating wetlands to improve water quality in Fort Pond

Grassroots Environmental Education, Inc.

to discourage use of fertilizers that contain chemicals that contaminate ground and surface water

Seatuck Environmental Association, Inc.

to document the distribution and population status of terrestrial and semi-aquatic mammals on Long Island

Citizens Campaign for the Environment

to convene a Municipal Long Island Sound Educational Roundtable.

Henry L. Ferguson Museum

to build organizational capacity to innovate visual engagement designs to protect Fishers Island eelgrass and to hire a consultant to develop a detailed invasive species management plan that will restore a coastal grassland on Fishers Island

Nature Conservancy, Inc.

to pilot digital and mail advertising outreach efforts to promote nitrogen-reducing septic systems on the North Shore of Long Island

Save the Sound

for year 3 of the Long Island Sound Community Data Platform, now known as QuickDrops™.

Peconic Baykeeper, Inc.

To establish an oyster sanctuary in the Peconic Estuary.

Surfrider Foundation

To improve data collected through water quality monitoring from East Quogue to Montauk.

Turtle Rescue of the Hamptons

To mitigate the decline in Long Island’s turtle population.

Atlantic Marine Conservation Society

To respond to sea turtle strandings.

Citizens Campaign for the Environment

To lobby for passage of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act to hold manufacturers responsible for waste production.

Peconic Land Trust, Incorporated

For invasive plant removal and habitat restoration in Broad Cove.

Sisters of Saint Joseph

to restore a woodland habitat.

National Audubon Society, Inc.

To pilot an endorsement program for landscape professionals and promote the use of native plants by landscapers and homeowners.

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