2010 quaker earthcare witness mini-grant projects

Quaker Earthcare Witness

Mini-grants 2010

Ruth Hamilton, QEW Mini-grants Clerk

Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, N.C.

Piedmont Friends Fellowship

QEW Mini-Grants

• Environmental matching grants for Quaker

meetings and groups

• In 2011, meetings match from $250 to

$500 grant from their budget or by fund-

raising

• Deadline for the grant application is May

2, 2011.

IMYM 2009 plans Mountain Friends Camp

Plork- play & work

Preparing the mortar to plaster a shed

Restoring the Spring at

Cibola Canyon, N.M.

Chapel Hill Friends

Meeting/ Chapel

Hill Early School

Edible perennial "Nibble

Garden" for the

playground includes

Blueberries, Hardy Kiwi,

Grapes, Passion fruit &

Hazelnuts- all

playground safe & kid

friendly. Beautiful

Backyards, a sustainable

landscaping nonprofit, is

hired to implement the

project.

Breaking soil for the Chapel Hill, N.C. Friends

Meeting Nibble Garden

Energy Class

Scattergood (Iowa)

Friends School juniors &

seniors had an energy

conservation class

March-May of 2010, led

by energy specialist and

QEW member, David

Abazs. From northern

Minnesota they canoed

down the Mississippi

River. The group gave

presentations along the

way to schools,

churches and other

interested groups.

Happy Students on the Miss. River

Sustainability Class presenting to

classroom

Milwaukee Friends Meeting, Wis.

Project for Anita Koenen Land Preserve

Milwaukee Friends Meeting worships in a meetinghouse constructed on

the Anita and Jacob Koenen Land Preserve. Project includes

removal of the invasive plants by restoring the land to its indigenous

flora and fauna.

Richmond Ind. Friends School

Richmond Friends School Composter

Mexico City Friends Meeting

Casa de los Amigos Guest House & Friends Meeting

implement compact fluorescent light bulbs, a bike-

lending program, and low-flush toilets for the guest

house

Pima Friends, Tucson Ariz.

Ithaca Meeting, Ithaca, N.Y.

Low flush toilets

Illinois Yearly Meeting

Green Roof for Kitchen

Green Roof Plants & Containers

Newton Monthly Meeting, Camden, N.J.

Drip irrigation for the garden and native plants

.

Newton Meeting House

Gwynedd, Penn. and Dover

N.H. Meeting receive

energy star refrigerators.

Dover Meeting implements

manual mowing.

Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH

School symposium on vision and energy conservation

Homewood Meeting Solar Panels

Homewood Meeting

Solar Energy Project

Baltimore, Md.

• Panels cover half of

roof over meeting room.

• Electric meter runs

backwards on sunny

days and on full moon.

• Solar sys. size 7.2 kW

• Produces 715 kWh mo.

• Yearly savings $1,296

• Fund raisers, a concert,

three yard sales, and a t-

shirt sales and the mini-

grant paid for the

system.

How you can help:• Contribute to the mini-grant fund with a fund-

raiser or by direct contributions to the “QEW

Mini-grant fund.”

• Contributions of carbon offsets for trips and

individual donations can be donated to QEW for

the Mini-grant Fund.

• Plan an environmental project for your Quaker

meeting, church, or group. Application is at

<www.quakerearthcare.org>.

• Deadline: May 2, 2011.