2023 COA Mini-Grant Recipients

We received applications for project totaling $13,000.00 and were able to fund the projects listed below within our budget of $7,500.00.

Brown Charitable Trust$1,000To increase the number of nesting boxes and feeders, replace older ones and purchase birdseed on property in Griswold, CT
Litchfield Hills Audubon$250To expand pollinator gardens at Wigwam Brook in Litchfield, CT
Avalonia Land Trust$500To install Screech Owl boxes on trust property
Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire$500For the Cheshire pollinator pathway
Aaron Scott$1000To establish a bird friendly ecosystem around a pond that he has restored which had a broken dam and sluice system
Abington Cemetery Association$500To install 6 Bluebird boxes in the historic cemetery
Horizon Wings$500 To provide food and medical supplies for birds in rehabilitation
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy$750To expand the Litchfield Pollinator Pathway project within their 16-acre aviary
Roaring Brook Nature Center$1000For an avian ICU and oxygen concentrator
Woodcock Nature Center$500To install 5 nest boxes on its 150-acre preserve
Simsbury Pollinator Pathway$1,000Toward the long-term project making the Triangle Meadow in Simsbury into a protected grassland sanctuary

Mini-Grant Committee: Kathy Van Der Aue (retiring chair), Allison Black (incoming chair), Melissa Baston, Angela Dimmit, Miley Bull.