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Recipients of support from the New England Grassroots Environment Fund are asked to complete a final grant report no later than one year after receiving their grant payment. We rely on your candid responses to help us assess the effectiveness of our grantmaking program. We would appreciate your honest appraisal of both the short-term results and longer-term impact of the project that was funded.

NEGEF redesigned its Grant Application Form beginning with the June 2003 grant round.  If you received your grant prior to June 2003, you do not have to complete "Final Report Section 1: Updating Your Profile".  All recipients of grants from June 2003 to the present should complete all sections of the Final Report Form. 

You may download the grant report form in:
Acrobat (PDF) format,
Microsoft Word, or
Rich Text Format (RTF).
If you need the free Acrobat reader, you can get it here.

Looking for Boston Grants Final Report Form? Please go here.

NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND

GRANT REPORT FORM  

Recipients of a New England Grassroots Environment Fund grant must complete a final Grant Report no later than one year after submitting the original application. We rely on your candid responses to help us assess the effectiveness of our grantmaking program. Completing this report as a group at a regular meeting would help gather a broad perspective from your organization.

Date:

Contact Person:

Name of Organization:

Address:

Phone: Email Address:

Date of Award: Grant Amount:

Purpose of Grant:

FINAL REPORT SECTION 1: UPDATING YOUR PROFILE

Please update the Applicant Profile that you submitted with your original Grant Application. You can either note changes on the original form, or fill out the profile at the end of this document..

FINAL REPORT SECTION 2: GRANT OUTCOMES

Please answer the following questions about your group and the work it is doing:

A. CHANGE OR ADVANCMENT OF GROUP’S FOCUS/GOALS

1. How is your campaign progressing? Briefly describe its evolution.
   
   
   
2. What factors have helped move your campaign forward?
   
   
   
3. What obstacles still stand between your group and achieving “success?”
   

 

B. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

1. Have members of your group become more active in other community activities or organizations since you began your campaign? If so, in what ways?
   
   
   
2. Did the experience with this group make you and/or other group members more politically active at any level? If so, at what level: local, state, regional?
   

 

C. COMMUNITY CHANGES

1. In your opinion, have you and/or group members significantly increased knowledge of how your community works, its environmental issues and how to solve problems locally?
   
   
   
2. Since the group’s formation, have other local environmental issues received community attention and sparked other community activism? If so, what issues?
   

 

D. NEGEF’S IMPACT ON GROUP’S WORK

1. Although it’s hard to quantify, please tell us if and how NEGEF’s grant and support made a difference to your group and its work. If you had not received the grant from NEGEF, what difference, if any, would it have made to your campaign?
   
   
   
2. What additional skills, information, trainings would help advance your campaign?
   

FINAL REPORT SECTION 3: FINANCIAL REPORT

1. Please attach an itemized expense sheet that shows how you spent the NEGEF grant money.
   
   
   
2. Was the NEGEF grant your only source of funds? If not, what additional funds did your raise? From what sources?
   
   

FINAL REPORT SECTION 4: NEGEF PROGRAM EVALUATION

1. Please comment about our program and how you think we can improve it to meet the needs of the grassroots environmental community in New England.
   
   
   
2. Do you know of other community groups that might benefit from our program? Please include names and addresses and we will contact them. 

APPLICANT PROFILE UPDATE

 Updated profile should be no more than two pages in length.

1.   What is the mission or the goals of your group?

2.   How long has your group been in existence?

3.   What issue/issues got your group going?

4.   How many people started the group?

5.   Is this the first time that the group's "founders" had been "activiated"?

If not, with what other issues had they been involved?

6.   How many people are currently involved as the core group of leaders/workers?

7.   Is this a membership organization?  If so, how many members do you have?

8.   Do you have any paid staff?

If yes, how many full-time equivalents?

9.   Approximately how many people in your community can be "activated" to support your issue - i.e., go to a meeting, sign a petition, call a selectperson, etc.?

10.  Has the focus of the group broadened or changed at all since it first started?

If so, in what ways?

11.  Have any members of your group run for or been appointed to public office since they started working on your issue/issues?

If so, for what office?

Elected or appointed?

12.  Describe the size and make-up of your community.

13.  Have you networked or shared information/resources with other groups?

If so, with whom and how did you find out about them?

14.  How have you gained knowledge about your issue?

15.  If your organization is more than a year old, can you quantify any of your "successes?"  Examples might be number of acres preserved, miles of trails, increase in recycling rates in town, toxic sites cleaned up, greenspaces/community gardens created, amount of money raised, legislation passed, etc.

16.  What are the biggest challenges your community faces?

17.  What skills do you feel you and/or members of your group could use to help move your issue forward?

Please email to your program officer, 
or mail to:

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
P.O. Box 1057
Montpelier, VT 05601

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR TIME AND IDEAS.
YOUR INPUT WILL HELP US IMPROVE OUR PROGRAM.