News Release: Onondaga Lake Partnership announces 2009 mini-grants program

NEW: Click here for 2009 Mini-grants Application form. Submit by May 1.

Mini-Grants Program Information

The OLP has allocated funding assistance to eligible recipients for public education and outreach about watershed management issues relevant to the Onondaga Lake watershed. Specifically, the OLP is interested in supporting projects that help prevent non-point source pollution from entering Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, as well as projects that help improve, or promote awareness of, the habitat in and around the lake and watershed.

2005 Mini-Grants Program

For the OLP's 2005 Public Education and Outreach Mini-Grants program, a total of $31,728 was awarded at the Onondaga Yacht Club on June 20, 2005. The recipients of the 2005 Mini-Grants are as follows:

• Centers for Nature Education - $2,500 to continue and expand the dissemination of EnviroMails, a listing of environment-related events, meetings, resources and announcements that are e-mailed to central New York residents.
• Central New York Chapter of the Izaak Walton League - $5,000 to design and produce education panel displays about carp to be used at the Carp Fishing Tournament in June 2005 and other events.
• Onondaga Cortland Madison Counties BOCES - $4,428 to introduce water-testing and watershed education into 5th grade classrooms in the Liverpool and North Syracuse school districts.
• Save the County Land Trust - $5,000 to develop a public awareness project concerning the impacts and spread of invasive species in the Nine Mile Creek sub-basin and to initiate control of Japanese Knotweed within the riparian corridor.
• Fund for the Environment - $5,000 to produce a video to promote Onondaga Lake as a viable resource for recreational fishing.
• Project Watershed Central New York - $5,000 to work with student teams to review the results of water monitoring data and examine project stream site images of the 2004 Onondaga Watershed Database Inquiry project.
• LeMoyne College - $4,800 to develop and implement a summer science camp where elementary students will learn the importance of water as a natural resource.

Example application packages from the successful 2004 Mini-Grant recipients listed below are available in the following document:
 
Successful Mini-Grants Application Packages (2.3 MB)

 
Group: Project Watershed Consortium
Title: Volunteer Training in Stream Bio-Monitoring
Amount: $1,630
 
Group: Canopy
Title: Onondaga Creek Day
Amount: $2,500
 
Group: Nine Mile Creek Conservation Council
Title: Nine Mile Creek Watershed Day
Amount: $3,300
 
Group: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County
Title: Rain Garden Demo Project
Amount: $4,000
 
Group: Onondaga Yacht Club
Title: Recreational Boating in Onondaga Lake
Amount: $5,000
 
Group: Syracuse University
Title: Project Watershed Database
Amount: $5,000
 
Group: Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA)
Title: Educating the Urban Community
Amount: $5,000