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