Northeast Utilities Offers Environmental Community Grant Program

Northeast Utilities Offers Environmental Community Grant Program
(CT, NH, & MA only)
Deadline: October 15, 2008

The Environmental Community Grant Program provides community based groups with funding for local projects that benefit the environment. Northeast Utilities' (www.nu.com) goal is to sponsor local grassroots-type efforts that are frequently overlooked by large grant programs.

The program awards grants of between $250 and $1,000 each in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Grant applications must be from organizations served by Connecticut Light and Power, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, or Public Service of New Hampshire.

Eligible projects protect or preserve the environment or teach others the value of doing so. Examples include providing education on environmental issues of local interest to adults or children, improving the environment through organized cleanup projects (such as cleaning up a park, part of a stream, or a vacant lot) or by reclaiming and rehabilitating damaged environments; improving a local wildlife habitat; and starting and maintaining a recycling program.

Complete program guidelines and application are available at the Northeast Utilities Web site. www.nu.com/environmental/grant.asp