2023 Grant Cycle Awardees
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Canopy
Canopy and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest are teaming up to drive measurable environmental impact in partnership with local businesses.
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Center for Neighborhoods
This program will produce an interactive GIS learning tool that enhances JCPS student’s understanding of the built, natural, and social environments.
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Parks Alliance of Louisville
The Parks Alliance of Louisville is developing a 12,000-square-foot pollinator garden and nature discovery zone within the new Alberta O. Jones Park in the California Neighborhood of West Louisville.
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Second Chances Wildlife Center
We will offer free or discounted classes to JCPS "high-poverty schools" that otherwise would not be able to afford students the opportunity for Environmental Education.
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Fern Creek High School
Olla Irrigation Pots and Rainwater Collection Basin as a Sustainable Solution to Irrigation Needs in a School Garden
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Sustainable Ag of Louisville
The Three Sisters Collective Project is the planting, weeding and harvesting by a diverse group of people with big hearts, of the traditional intercrop of corn, beans and squash, whose seeds we save and replant yearly, in reverence to Mother Earth and to the loving hands that feed humanity.
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Louisville Climate Action Network
Louisville Climate Action Network will provide in-depth energy audits to 6-8 local nonprofits serving primarily Louisville’s Black and Brown community, so they can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and “spend less on utilities, more on mission.”
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Kentucky Resources Council
“Community Engagement Workshop - Empowering Residents to Advocate for Cleaner Air and a Healthier Louisville” will launch with building curriculum and the framework for workshops so that local advocates can better champion for healthier communities in front of regulatory agencies.
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Kentucky Solar Energy Society
To fund the creation of a specialty license plate that promotes clean energy, electric vehicles, and Kentucky environmentalism
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The Library Foundation
Ripple Effects: A Louisville/Ohio River Visioning Project!