Environment Grants Awarded 2007
Total disbursements in 2007 under Metcalf Foundation’s Environment Program equal approximately $1,470,000. The following is a list that includes grants to qualified donee organizations and descriptions of agency agreements and contracted services for specific charitable work to be carried out on behalf of the Foundation.
Healthy Lands
The Healthy Lands program is designed to support organizations working in Southern Ontario to: explore and develop innovative approaches to tackling tough land-use problems; actively seek opportunities for ongoing dialogue, collaborative learning and reflection; and inspire people and communities to contribute to positive change.
Alliance for a Better Georgina
$45,000
to create a series of community maps that will function as planning tools that identify, prioritize and protect local area features valued by the community as well as features that may not be reflected in current agency mapping or policy.
Alternatives Journal, University of Waterloo
$24,500
for the production of the spring 2008 issue entitled Living Landscapes: Saving Our Near-Urban Lands that will focus on protecting the lands that surround our urban centres.
Canadian Organic Growers
$60,000 (year 1 of 2)
to support the Perth-Wellington-Waterloo Chapter to develop potential alternative distribution systems for organic and transitioning farmers in order to help rejuvenate agriculture and the rural economy in the Perth-Wellington-Waterloo area.
Citzens' Environment Watch
$120,000 (year 3 of 3)
to create a long-term community-based monitoring project across the Oak Ridges Moraine which will enable citizens to share ecological and policy monitoring data using a 'common map' that will connect knowledge about the Moraine and provide a resource for community groups and decision makers.
Delta Waterfowl Conservation
$20,000 (year 2 of 3)
to pilot the Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) project that will provide incentive payments to farmers and ranchers in exchange for ecological goods and services.
Eastern Ontario Model Forest
$110,000 (year 1 of 2)
to promote the widespread adoption of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards in small-scale forests, private woodlots and community forests in partnership with FSC Canada.
Environmental Defence
$68,000
to build institutional capacity through program and communications development.
Environmental Defence
$20,000
to support a coalition of groups collaborating on New Environmental Priorities for Ontario.
Everdale Environmental Learning Centre
$22,000 (year 1 of 3)
in support of the Farmland Entry project which aims to devise and adapt models of farm succession by facilitating entry for farm interns onto farmland in Southern Ontario, especially on land adjacent to Everdale.
FarmStart
$117,500
to support and encourage a new generation of farmers interested in establishing locally based, ecologically sound and economically viable agricultural enterprises.
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy
$40,000 (year 3 of 3)
to catalyze a new level of coordinated and comprehensive regional planning and conservation action toward bioregional protection of natural and cultural resources through increased organizational capacity and the investment in new tools to work with partners and local communities.
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy
$55,000 (year 2 of 2)
to assist with The Land Between initiative that seeks to examine a highly sensitive and poorly known landscape; mark The Land Between as a true and distinctive landscape; and focus increased collaborative conservation efforts in the region.
Local Food Plus
$180,000 (year 2 of 3)
to initiate a local food eco-label for Southern Ontario as a comprehensive strategy for food system reform that will support farmers and offer consumers a way to support local sustainable agriculture.
Ontario Farmland Trust
$74,000 (year 1 of 3)
to undertake a major educational campaign targeting municipalities, planners, rural non-farm landowners and the broader community in order to build support for a ‘Places to Grow Food Plan’ for Ontario.
Ontario Nature
$90,000 (year 1 of 2)
to support the Livable Landscapes II: Community Conservation Mapping project in Grey and Bruce Counties that will establish community-based plans for linking protected natural areas, farmlands and green spaces.
Town of Caledon
– Caledon, Ontario
$10,000 (year 2 of 2)
to produce a community map through a collaborative effort amongst a number of Caledon’s community groups in order to ensure the protection of natural and cultural heritage in the Town’s growth and resource management efforts.
University of Guelph
$47,000
to pilot Plan Aid, a new not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing planning and design advice and skills that will help citizens evaluate, respond to, and contribute to planning initiatives and proposals that affect their community, in partnership with Guelph Civic League, the City of Guelph, and the Downtown Board of Management.
University of Guelph
$60,000
to secure a system of “Greenlands” in the Township of Centre Wellington based on research, mapping and a broadly based citizen engagement process, in partnership with Greenlands Centre Wellington.
Leaders in the Field
The Leaders in the Field program is intended to develop, strengthen and celebrate exceptional leaders working on land use issues in Southern Ontario through two streams: Field Fellowships offer senior leaders, who can benefit from periods of professional development, reflection and renewal, the flexibility to pursue opportunities not available under regular workplace demands; Field Internships cultivate new leaders by creating productive entry points to mentoring and training so that the rich experience and specialized knowledge that exist in the field will guide the development of the next generation of leaders.
Internships
Citizens' Environment Watch
$17,500
to support a 12-month internship for Sherry Shen.
Environmental Defence
$27,500
to support a 12-month internship for Claire Malcolmson.
Wye Marsh
$19,000
to support a 7-month internship for Chris McIIhinney.
Field Fellowships
there were no Field Fellowhsips awarded in 2007.
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