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.
For questions about this program area, contact Melissa Greenberger.
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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