Welcome to
Fields Pond Foundation
Recent Environmental Grants Revised
February 2008
About the Foundation
The primary mission of
Fields Pond Foundation is to provide financial assistance to nature and land
conservation organizations that are community-based and that serve to increase
environmental awareness by involving local residents in conservation issues.
The Foundation's emphasis stems from its
founding Directors' beliefs that the conservation of special places in our
environment, and providing public accessibility to those conservation areas, is
a desirable end in itself; but it is also a means of building public support
for future land and river conservation by increasing the direct connection
between individuals and their environment, and fostering active participation
in the work of conservation. The Foundation hopes to nurture such efforts by
making grants under the following priorities:
1.
Project grants for trailmaking and other enhancement of public access to
conservation lands, rivers, coastlines and other natural resources;
2. Land acquisition for conservation;
3. Assistance in establishment of endowments as a means of funding stewardship
of conservation areas; and
4. Related education programs and publications.
The Foundation encourages
proposals from municipal government agencies.
The Foundation may also consider short-term loans to conservation groups
for the purpose of acquiring conservation lands. Outside its primary mission, it will also consider
grant requests from other not-for-profit organizations with a demonstrated
local impact in precollegiate education.
Fields Pond Foundation Inc.
Five Turner Street, Box 540667
Waltham, MA 02454-0667
Phone
Email: info@fieldspond.org