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Awards Announcement: Larimer County's 2013 Small Grants for Community Partnering

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Department: Natural Resources
Release Date: Mar 22, 2013

Contact Information:

Sue Burke, Coordinator, Small Grants for Community Partnering, (970) 679-4566, sburke@larimer.org


2011 Small Grant at Big Thompson Elementary School west of Loveland

 Larimer County Natural Resources Department is pleased to announce awards for the Open Lands Program’s Small Grants for Community Partnering awards for 2013!  They will be formally presented on March 28, 2013, at the Open Lands Advisory Board’s meeting (5:45 p.m., Loveland City Council Chambers, Loveland Municipal Building, 500 East Third, Loveland).   Twelve community projects throughout Larimer County were awarded a total of $19,890.48.

 
Grantee
Project Name
Award Amount
Location
The Growing Project
Expansion and Maintenance of Community Gardens at FC Housing Authority Resident Sites
$2,000.00
Fort Collins
Soaring Eagle Ecology Center
Environmental Learning Stations
$1,924.50
Red Feather Lakes
Friends of Happy Heart Farm
Lamb to Sheep
$1,997.81
Fort Collins
Old Town North
Community Garden
$1,500.00
Fort Collins
Muriel L. MacGregor Charitable Trust
Water Tank Project
$2,000.00
Estes Park
Northwest Neighbors
Beautify Neighborhood Connectors
$1,000.00
Fort Collins
Colorado Youth Outdoors
Herbicide Purchase for Invasive Plant Species Management
$1,000.00
east Larimer
Douglas Nolde
Merriam's Wild Turkey Population and Habitat Assessment
$1,956.45
Horsetooth Mountain Open Space
Nat Warning
Rock Wren Nest Monitoring
$1,761.72
Horsetooth Mountain, Devil’s Backbone, Red Mountain open spaces; Horsetooth Reservoir; other open spaces
Mulberry Community Gardens
Irrigation System Plan, Pump, raised beds
$1,400.00
Fort Collins
Bruns HOA
Bruns Estates Outlot B Open Space
$400.00
east Loveland
Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy
Communities, Cameras, and Conservation
$950.00
Horsetooth Mountain Open Space
Sandy Charles
Construction of insulated 4-season high tunnel
$2,000.00
Fort Collins
                                                                       
 
 
Small Grants for Community Partnering is an initiative of the Larimer County Open Lands Program with the intent of dispersing a portion of the Help Preserve Open Spaces sales tax dollars throughout the county for community projects which connect people to the land. Since 1998, 134 community projects have received approximately $171,000 in funding.  Annually, $20,000 is available for individual awards up to $2,000 per project.
 
To find out more about Small Grants for Community Partnering, go to www.larimer.org/openlands/smallgrants.htm orcall Sue Burke at 679-4566.  
 
 
To learn more about Larimer County’s parks and open spaces,
visit our website at www.larimer.org/naturalresources
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