FARMINGTON, NH—The Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation has awarded Moose Mountains Regional Greenways a grant of $10,000. The grant was given to support the efforts of Moose Mountains’ executive director, Joyce El Kouarti, to implement the organization’s major goals for 2005:
- To continue to work closely with regional landowners to facilitate voluntary land preservation agreements;
- To continue to organize workshops and other events to increase public awareness of the importance of the region’s natural resources and the benefits of voluntary land conservation;
- To increase membership in Moose Mountains Regional Greenways;
- To develop and implement fundraising strategies that will enable the organization to continue its work over time.
The grant was made from the Barbara K. & Cyrus B. Sweet III Fund, a charitable giving partnership of the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation. The Foundation is a regional division of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, which utilizes gifts and bequests from individuals, families and organizations to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations serving residents of the Seacoast communities of Maine and New Hampshire. To learn more about the work of the Foundation, please call 603-430-9182.
Moose Mountains Regional Greenways’ mission is to identify and preserve important natural resource areas, including water resources, working farm and forest lands, wildlife habitat and recreational areas; to make others aware of these efforts; and to join protected lands to form greenways. Moose Mountains Regional Greenways was founded in 1999 by land use board members from the six New Hampshire communities of Brookfield, Farmington, Middleton, Milton, New Durham and Wakefield.
Today this grassroots, non-profit organization represents a dynamic collaboration between community leaders, private landowners, resource managers, and government and private conservation entities working to conserve and connect the most special undeveloped lands of northern Strafford and southern Carroll Counties. For more information, call 603-817-8260 or visit www.mmrg.info.
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