The Watershed Fund—FY 2024 Grant Applications
Applicant | Project | Amount |
The New Haven Science Fair Program of the GNHCC Foundation |
The New Haven Science Fair Program – A four component plan of action to help improve the quality of education, particularly science and math in the New Haven School System. |
$10,250 |
New Haven Urban Resources Initiative, Inc. |
Creating Tree Pits for New Haven – To create 12 new tree pits and to expand 20 existing pits in low-canopy, low income, majority BIPOC neighborhoods. |
$10,000 |
Save the Sound
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Empowering Community Stewards for Water Quality at Six Lakes in Hamden, Connecticut – to broaden public education efforts around Six Lakes property to raise awareness and engagement among members of the neighboring communities. |
$10,000 |
Environmentalist for Student Centered Environmental Education – Yr 2 Support: to assist students with incorporating the natural sciences and stewardship into everyday curriculum. Sharing student learning with environmental curriculum with a worldwide education audience. K-5 up to K-12 by 2029. Permanent position. |
$10,000 | |
Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride/New Haven Leon SCP |
$10,000 | |
South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority |
Environmental Careers Summer Camp 2024 – A week long program to introduce high school students to environmental careers at a water utility. |
$4,000 |
Mill River Watershed Association South Central CT Inc. |
Stormwater Collection and Conservation in Southern Hamden and Newhallville, New Haven – To make rainbarrels available free to residents in the areas and conduct education programming about stormwater pollution, urban stormwater collection and water conservation. |
$6,000 |
Gather New Haven |
Schooner Coastal Ecology Infusion Project – to enhance Schooner’s environmental education component by educating 350 regional campers attending the Schooner Camp to increase knowledge of coastal ecology and water quality. |
$10,000 |
CT Land Conservation |
Stewardship Education Program – in collaboration with SCRLCA to bolster collective intraregional stewardship and engagement efforts to advance climate resilience and yield equitable benefits from protected land and waterways |
$8,248 |
The Claire C. Bennitt Watershed Fund: Scholarships Awarded in FY 2024
Applicant | Residence Town/City | College |
Cronin, Devin (Sophomore) |
Seymour | UCONN |
Dykstra, Kieren Lief (Senior) |
New Haven | Brown University |
Grevelding, Colin (Sophomore) |
Cheshire | UCONN |
Hernandez, Mayorie (Sophomore) |
West Haven | Eastern CT State University |
Hubbs, Evan (Senior) |
Madison | University of Rhode Island |
Kapostas, Victor (Junior) |
Ansonia | University of New Hampshire |
Nash, Dylan (Junior) |
Derby | Curry College |
Pham, Anna (Freshman) |
Hamden | University of New Hampshire |
Stefanovics, Amelia (Sophomore) |
Branford | University of New Hampshire |
Urda, Marissa (Senior) |
Woodbridge | Sacred Heart University |