round 6 awardees
Adirondack
Adirondack Architectural Heritage
$30,000 to complete a five-year rehabilitation of Poke-O-Moonshine’s 1.8-mile Ranger Trail as a model of an interesting, varied, and sustainable interpretive trail to the top of the mountain.
Adirondack Mountain Club
$14,139 to hire one staff member for a Summer Stewardship Program to be stationed on top of New York’s tallest mountains from May to October to educate the public on alpine ecosystems and enlist their help in protecting this fragile resource.
Lake George Battlefield Park (Fort George) Alliance
$2,040 to develop, print and distribute an updated Battlefield Park Tour Guide and rack card to build awareness of the new Lake George Battlefield Park Visitor Interpretive Center.
Allegany
Chautauqua County Equestrian Trail System
$64,805 to provide environmentally friendly, sustainable rehabilitation of the trail known as The Boulevard, which acts as a critical point of access for trail users and has been closed for the past two years due to logging.
Capital Region
Friends of Fort Crailo
$6,500 to harness the capacity to draw broader awareness to the Friends of Fort Crailo and Crailo State Historic Site by strengthening the board makeup, developing a strong membership plan, and creating a website.
Friends of Grafton Lakes State Park
$9,506 to build capacity through membership, volunteer, and donor development, and to fund a series of activities (hiking, mountain biking, summer film series, fundraising event), promotional materials, and other supporting initiatives.
Friends of Saratoga Spa State Park
$75,000 To restore the Coesa spring house, provide interpretive signage about the Coesa Mineral Spring, and to install a historically accurate replica of the original granite fountain.
Friends of Bennington Battlefield
$6,750 to add professionally produced audio files via QR code to recently installed interpretive panels providing diverse accounts of the Battle.
Central New York
Friends of Lorenzo
$43,020 to arrange collections of maps, photos, land records, letters, and other historical documents into usable electronic collections to facilitate intellectual control and use.
Hyde Hall, Inc.
$2,830 to design, fabricate, and install four interpretive and educational panels that introduce visitors to Hyde Hall’s history and offer a general welcome and orientation to the site.
Friends of Clark Reservation
$5,400 to develop a strategic plan.
Finger Lakes
Friends of Fillmore Glen State Park
$13,296 to create kiosks in the park with maps, information, and educational interpretive signs and to upgrade event signage.
Friends of The Catherine Valley Trail
$13,500 to remedy trail erosion by installing culverts, resurfacing, and installing two interpretive kiosks at strategic locations.
Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park
$16,200 to fund a campaign and marketing plan to assist in public relations and fundraising.
Genesee
Friends of Letchworth State Park
$50,700 to restore and preserve 18 iconic Civilian Conservation Corps-built stone tables at the Wolf Creek and Eddys picnic areas.
Long Island
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society
$23,084 to install enhanced education signage at Hallock State Park Preserve and Orient Beach State Park and a new exhibit in Hallock State Park Preserve’s Community Room to highlight the important ecosystems and marine life at both parks.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Horticultural Society
$50,000 to hire an Education Coordinator to organize, increase, and enhance educational programs to better serve the arboretum and community.
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
$33,888 to promote Whitman’s legacy through expanded website capabilities and marketing strategies which will bring attention, admiration, interactions, and support to the grounds of Whitman’s birth.
Niagara
Artpark & Company, Inc.
$50,000 to create a comprehensive wayfinding system and incorporate public Wi-Fi along Artpark’s pathways providing data access to a diverse demographic of Artpark visitors, and to serve as a functional necessity for the proposed interactive signage system and data collection.
Friends of Reinstein Nature Preserve
$6,510 to provide permanent, durable trailside interpretive signs along the “History Trail,” including new accessibility features and an audio tour.
Martin House Restoration Corporation
$13,500 to retain a Curatorial Intern who will support the second phase of a comprehensive collections cataloging project that will strengthen the stewardship of the collections and make them more accessible.
New York City
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
$35,000 to fund programming in FDR Four Freedoms State Park; plan, develop and execute a range of on-site tours given by area experts; and develop and execute self-guided mobile tours in multiple languages.
Palisades
Fort Montgomery Battle Site Association
$33,300 to repair and make safe the trail in the western portion of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site–part two of a two-phase project.
Taconic
Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance
$36,000 to contract the services of a Communications and Development Specialist who will establish critical communications and development infrastructure to engage professional staff, expand public and private constituencies, and fundraise for capital projects and public programs.
Friends of Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Inc.
$60,000 to rehabilitate the historic Overlook Trail carriage road in the Swan Lake section of Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association
$75,000 to repair and repave one of the oldest sections of the Harlem Valley Rail Trail which is part Taconic State Park.
Little Stony Point Citizens Association, Inc.
$13,500 to increase access, stewardship, and environmental education opportunities by making the trail to the Little Stony Point overlook more accessible.
Walkway Over the Hudson
$64,996 to fund a position to oversee its successful Summer Walkway Ambassador Program a youth employment program), and to assist with on-bridge operations, events, and management of the new East Gate Plaza.
Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct
$24,875 to expand successful outreach and community engagement in underserved and diverse communities by retaining a part-time outreach coordinator to increase awareness about the Aqueduct and enhance the capacity of the Friends.
Thousand Islands
Winona Forest Recreation Association
$26,837 to double the traditional event trail course by adding five new bridges, three new trails, and performing trail rehabilitation, including the addition of a new 5K trail which can be used by hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners.