The Alpern Family Foundation, $13,000 for supporting the MLUI Web site, the
Great Lakes Bulletin, and for the purchase of computers.
The Borwell Charitable Foundation, $20,000 to support the Great Lakes Bulletin and the Web site.
The Clannad Foundation, $13,000 for the Grassroots Support Center and $3,000 for Celebrate Historic Sleeping Bear, a three-day event held to build support for preserving historic buildings in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and a 15-minute video promoting the message of the grassroots group Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear.
The Deer Creek Foundation, $50,000 for countering the private rights movement in Michigan.
The Dyer-Ives Foundation, $5,000 for an outreach and communications training program to speed development in Grand Rapids neighborhoods and slow suburban sprawl.
The Frey Family Fund, $5,000 for general support.
The Frey Foundation, $70,000 to support the Great Lakes Bulletin and for capacity building.
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund, $500 for communications in support of reforming the Michigan Drain Code.
The Joyce Foundation, $144,300 to support reform of transportation and land use policy in Michigan.
The Michigan Environmental Council, $3,000 for publication of the Great Lakes Bulletin.
The Oleson Foundation, $2,000 for Celebrate Historic Sleeping Bear.
The Steelcase Foundation, $5,000 for grassroots support of the growth management project in Grand Rapids.
The Wege Foundation, $5,000 to support rebuilding urban neighborhoods in Kent County.
The Samuel L. Westerman Foundation, $5,000 to strengthen public policy through our work with civic organizations, as well as communications via the Great Lakes Bulletin and our Web site.