Grants Library

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation supports vital conservation projects across the United States and its territories. Please search our grants library for additional information on individual grants.

Year Name Organization Location Award Amount
2009 Outer Island Marine Environmental Education and Research Center (CT) Friends of Outer Island, Inc. Outer Island, the furthest offshore of the Thimble Island chain in Branford, CT. $34,975.68
2009 Reducing Endangered Loggerhead Turtle Bycatch in Northwest Mexico The Ocean Foundation We work along the Pacific coast of Baja California peninsula from 27°50N/115°05W to 24°30N/112°00W and focus in López Mateos and Santa Rosa where bycatch rates are high (Peckham et al 2008). $83,600.00
2009 Critical Nesting Zones for Sea Turtle Conservation in Mexico Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan A.C. The Mexican State of Campeche, in the Yucatan Peninsula, has more thn 200 km of sandy coast with wetlands and medium forest sorrounding the coast, harboring numerous endemic and threatened species $21,794.00
2009 Implementing Stormwater Solutions for the Salmon River (CT) The Nature Conservancy Salmon River watershed(Middlesex, New London, Hartford, Tolland Counties), Connecticut $47,136.56
2009 Habitat Monitoring in Flax Pond (NY) - III Friends of Flax Pond, Inc. Old Field, New York. $25,000.00
2009 Impacts of Ghost Fishing to the American Lobster Fishery Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Sites will be located in western Cape Cod Bay and outer Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. These two areas represent different lobster stocks and have varying environmental and fishery conditions. $144,538.70
2009 Swimmable and Fishable Lafayette River (VA) Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. The targeted project area is the Lafayette River watershed, located within the City of Norfolk, VA, and a tributary to the Elizabeth River. Latitude 36.89528 and Longitude 76.32333. $135,000.00
2009 Fishing Communities in Action: Reducing Marine Debris in Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla The program will cover approximately 5,500 meters of coastline and all 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico. $65,617.00
2009 Wetland Invasive Plant Education - Great Marsh (MA) Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. Parker River Refuge land: Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley; nearby state-owned & private lands in Salisbury & Newburyport for which the Refuge has approval to remove invasives. Essex County, Massachusetts $10,000.00
2009 Deschutes (OR) Water Exchange - BPA VIII Deschutes River Conservancy Deschutes River Basin, Oregon $239,264.37