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