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Penn State University Finding the Funds You Need: A Guide for Grantseekers, http://cedev.aers.psu.edu/grantwriting/ Description: This brief guide provides you with an introduction to the grant process, a look at the philanthropic community, (both nation-wide and in Pennsylvania), an outline of an effective research strategy, and a guide to effective proposal writing. References, a glossary of terms, further reading suggestions, Internet resources, and a list of Foundation Center publications and services are also provided. Topics: What you can do with others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Penn State University The Futures Festival, http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/publications/freepubs/freepubs/ui364.html Description: The "Futures Festival" is a special event designed to engage people of all ages in dialogue about community issues. It is geared toward children and older adults, two groups who typically don't have as many opportunities to participate in community affairs as other groups. Topics: What you can do with others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Penn State University Pennsylvania Local Government, http://cax.aers.psu.edu/localgovernment/ Description: Resources and information for local government officials in Pennsylvania. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, What you can do with others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Penn State University Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, http://pasdadev.erri.psu.edu/ Description: Access to various spatial data available in Pennsylvania. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Return to top of page Penn State University Visioning, http://visioning.aers.psu.edu/default.htm Description: Penn State Cooperative Extension offers several educational strategic visioning programs to help your community or organization anticipate and respond to change. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, http://www.acb-online.org/ Description: The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and to restore the Bay and its rivers. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate. Instead, we do the slow, hard work of bridging dialogue between groups that don't see eye-to-eye, forming strategies for joint solutions, and building the capacity of communities for local-level action. Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania Appalachian Mountain Club Appalachian Mountain Club, http://www.outdoors.org/ Description: The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness, must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont Brandywine Valley Association Brandywine Valley Association, http://www.brandywinewatershed.org/ Description: The Brandywine Valley Association (BVA), the first small watershed association in the country, was founded in 1945 and is committed to promoting and protecting the natural resources of the Brandywine Valley through technical assistance and research projects, as well as through environmental education programs and demonstration projects for all ages. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Return to top of page Brodhead Watershed Association Brodhead Watershed Association, http://www.brodheadwatershed.org/bwa/ Description: The Brodhead Watershed Association (BWA) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting and improving water quality and the environment in the Brodhead watershed. The BWA assists municipalities, residents, businesses and groups with protecting natural resources through education, workshops, seminars, public programs, stream monitoring and baseline data collection and stream cleanups. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Center for Community Leadership of Berks County Center For Community Leadership of Berks County, http://www.cclberks.org/ Description: The purpose of the Center for Community Leadership is to assist the public and private nonprofit sector in meeting the changing needs of local communities, organizations and citizens. Topics: What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Clean Water Action Clean Water Action: Pennsylvania, http://www.cleanwateraction.org/pa/index.htm Description: Clean Water Action is a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Darby Creek Valley Association DCVA Home, http://www.dcva.org/ Description: The Darby Creek Valley Association (DCVA) is an all volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of all the Darby Creek watershed's resources, including water, wildlife, historical sites, and the floodplain. The Darby Creek watershed encompasses three counties in southeastern Pennsylvania (Montgomery, Delaware and Philadelphia) and eventually flows into the Delaware River at Tinicum, PA. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Return to top of page Delaware River Basin Commission i-Map Delaware River Basin, http://bassriver.state.nj.us/imap_delbasin/ Description: I-Map Delaware River Basin is DRBC's first interactive mapping application. This application has been designed to serve maps from DRBC and by remote map services over the Web using ESRI's ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) Internet mapping technology. The application provides a map view frame, a popup window for tabular information related to map features, a toolbar for basic GIS analysis, several predefined queries, and the capability to produce a basic map layout that can be sent to the user's printer. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Delaware Riverkeeper Network Delaware Riverkeeper Network, http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/ Description: The Delaware Riverkeeper is the voice of the Delaware River and its streams, championing their rights as living members of our community, and is leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. The Delaware Riverkeeper and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network stand as vigilant protectors and defenders of the River, its tributaries and its watershed committed to restoring the natural balance where it has been lost and ensuring its preservation where it still exists. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Governor's Center for Local Government Services, http://www.inventpa.com/default.aspx?id=136 Description:As the one-stop shop for all Pennsylvania Local Governments, the Governor's Center for Local Government Services provides a full range of financial assistance to local governments. The Center's mission is to: be the principal advocate for local governments, provide vital programs, services and training to local officials and municipal employees, and cut through red tape expeditiously to solve problems at the local level. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Community Conservation Partnerships Program, http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/brc/grants/ Description: Whether it's rehabilitating a community athletic field, building a safer playground, preparing a watershed or greenways plan, developing an abandoned rail corridor, protecting a critical natural or open space area or constructing a snowmobile or ATV Trail, the Bureau of Recreation & Conservation's Community Conservation Partnerships Program can provide communities and nonprofit organizations with the technical assistance or grant funding to undertake these and other types of recreation and conservation projects. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Return to top of page Department of Environmental Protection CVMP Home Page, http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/WC/Subjects/cvmp/default.htm Description: Citizen volunteers are becoming increasingly involved in monitoring the quality of the waters of our Commonwealth. From a simple "creek walk" to sophisticated analyses, they evaluate water quality for a host of reasons. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Bureau of Municipal Services, http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Penndot/Bureaus/BMS.nsf/frmBMunicipal?OpenFrameSet&Frame Description: The mission of the Bureau of Municipal Services is to serve our external partners and local governments as a liaison with state government, to provide our internal and external customers quality service, technical assistance, and training needs in a professional and timely manner that will continue to move the Commonwealth's transportation system forward to superiority. Topics: Transportation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Environmental Advisory Councils Network EAC Homepage, http://www.greenworks.tv/eac/index.asp# Description: By promoting the establishment and support of EACs across the Commonwealth, the EAC Network is helping local officials to make sound environmental decisions within and across municipal boundaries. Environmental Advisory Councils are appointed volunteers at work protecting the environment through project implementation, site plan and ordinance review, community education and much, much more. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Great Lakes Protection Fund Great Lakes Protection Fund, http://www.glpf.org/ Description: The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the Governors of the Great Lakes States. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. The Fund seeks projects that: lead to tangible improvements in the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem; promote the interdependence of healthy ecological and economic systems; and are innovative, creative, and venturesome. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, New York Return to top of page Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center, http://www.maelc.org/index.html Description: The Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center is a not-for-profit environmental law firm that provides legal services to public interest organizations in environmental matters. The Center counsels clients, educates the public, submits comments to agencies, and litigates cases when necessary. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania PA MAGIC PAMAGIC, http://www.pamagic.org/ Description: The mission of PA MAGIC is "To provide leadership, coordination, and guidance to enhance the development, use, and access to spatial information and related services in Pennsylvania." Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations Welcome to PANO.org, http://www.pano.org/ Description: PANO is the statewide membership organization serving and advancing the charitable nonprofit sector through leadership, advocacy, education and services in order to improve the quality of life in Pennsylvania. Topics: What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Environmental Council Funding Municipal Open Space, http://www.fundingopenspace.org/ Description: This website highlights some of the helpful strategies that municipalities can use to create a comprehensive open space financing plan. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Return to top of page Pennsylvania Growing Smarter Initiative PA Land Use, http://www.landuseinpa.com/Default.asp?bhcp=1 Description: The Pennsylvania "Growing Smarter" initiative is a result of the combined efforts of the Governor's Center for Local Government Services along with other state agencies, thousands of local officials and other interested citizens, working together to plan for the future health and vitality of our communities. To encourage sound land management practices, the Center offers a wide range of tools to support wise decisions about land use and encourage strong communities, economic development, a healthy environment and an improved quality of life. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Land Trust Association Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, http://www.conserveland.org/ Description: The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association promotes voluntary land conservation by supporting the missions of land trusts and building a positive climate for conservation in Pennsylvania. Topics: Land Preservation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds & Rivers, http://www.pawatersheds.org/ Description: "POWR advocates for the protection, restoration and enjoyment of our common wealth of water resources, and conducts programs that foster stewardship, communication, leadership and action." Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Urban and Community Forestry Council PA Community Forestry, http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/pucfc/index.html Description: The Pennsylvania Urban and Community Forestry Council is a nonprofit organization made up of all kinds of people who want to improve our community forests and green spaces. The Council guides a statewide program that provides technical and financial assistance for communities and volunteer groups. Topics: Healthy Communities, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania Potomac Trail Council Potomac Trail Council, http://www.potomactrail.org/ Description: The Potomac Trail Council (PTC) is an alliance of community organizations and local agencies committed to the development, protection, interpretation and celebration of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (PHNST). Our goal is to secure land and water routes in the PHNST corridor for public use while protecting natural settings and historic landscapes. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania University of Maryland Mid-Atlantic RESAC, http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/ Description: The Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) is one of 7 regional centers funded by NASA's Earth Science Applications Program. The Mid-Atlantic RESAC leverages the UMD Geography Department's expertise in satellite remote sensing and the work of a diverse consortium of 36 partners in Government, Academia, Industry and NGOs to address applications of regional significance. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Return to top of page
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