The 1772 Foundation has announced that $574,750 in farmland protection grants were made in April of 2012.
To be eligible, a land trust had to meet the following criteria:
The foundation considered the following types of funding:
- Grants for capacity building, such as membership building, planned giving programs, and training
- Grants for internal revolving loan funds to cover transaction costs
- Grants for farmland protection
Awards were made to the following groups:
| Connecticut Farmland Trust |
CT |
25,000 |
| Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust |
CT |
8,000 |
| Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust |
MA |
16,750 |
| East Quabbin Land Trust |
MA |
10,000 |
| Kestrel Land Trust |
MA |
30,000 |
| Forever Farmland |
MA |
22,500 |
| Franklin Land Trust |
MA |
22,500 |
| Franklin Land Trust |
MA |
20,000 |
| Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust |
MA |
30,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon |
MA |
30,000 |
| Three Rivers Land Trust |
ME |
20,000 |
| Society for the Protection of NH Forests |
NH |
20,000 |
| Five Rivers Conservation Trust |
NH |
20,000 |
| Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire |
NH |
10,000 |
| Monadnock Conservancy |
NH |
20,000 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation |
NJ |
40,000 |
| Hunterdon Land Trust |
NJ |
10,000 |
| The Land Conservancy of New Jersey |
NJ |
20,000 |
| Dutchess Land Conservancy |
NY |
30,000 |
| Open Space Institute |
NY |
25,000 |
| Wallkill Valley Land Trust |
NY |
5,000 |
| North Shore Land Alliance, Inc. |
NY |
35,000 |
| Westchester Land Trust |
NY |
7,500 |
| Heritage Conservancy |
PA |
20,000 |
| Tinicum Conservancy |
PA |
20,000 |
| Aquidneck Land Trust |
RI |
30,000 |
| Southside Community Land Trust |
RI |
25,000 |
| The South Kingstown Land Trust |
RI |
30,000 |
| Vermont Land Trust |
VT |
10,000 |
