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FY 2024/2025 Awardees

Child and Family Services

$30,000

Groundwork

$6,000

Human Nature School

$8,576

Presbyterian Church

$80,000

Single MOMM

$14,290

TART Trails

$10,000

Child And Family Services

  • Amount Given: $30,000
  • Project Overview: Innovative nature-based energy education outdoor play area for children and families who have experienced trauma
  • Focus Area: Community Development & Natural Resources /Environmental  

Groundwork

  • Amount Given: $6,000
  • Project Overview: Support the Youth Clean Energy Workshop program, specifically with supply kits, collateral creation, and marketing initiatives
  • Focus Area: Energy Related Educational Programs & Energy Related Educational Programs

Human Nature School

  • Amount Given: $8,576
  • Project Overview: Support an environmental education outreach program for two Traverse City Area Public Schools, one of which is Traverse Heights Elementary
  • Focus Area: Energy Related Educational Programs & Natural Resources/ Educational 

Presbyterian Church

  • Amount Given: $80,000
  • Project Overview: Replacing lighting with LEDs, the existing 30% efficient boiler with a fully electrified groundwater heat pump system, and installing 51 kW of rooftop solar, which supports their goal of a 25% carbon footprint reduction by 2026 and 100% renewable energy by 2030
  • Focus Area: Energy Related Educational Programs & Natural Resources/ Environmental 

Single MOMM

  • Amount Given: $14,290
  • Project Overview: Support the conversion of all current fluorescent lighting to energy and cost-efficient LED lights
  • Focus Area: Community Development, & Natural Resources/ Environmental 

TART Trails 

  • Amount Given: $10,000
  • Project Overview: Trailside plant identification to elevate the voices of the indigenous neighbors and encourage environmental stewardship
  • Focus Area: Natural Resources/Environmental