NIPSCO Announces 2018 Environmental Grant Winners

rot2NIPSCO is awarding 15 local nonprofit organizations with grants—totaling $50,000 — to help fund restoration and education projects throughout northern Indiana.

This year’s winners include:

  • Boys & Girls Club of White County, community environmental education programming
  • Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana, Spaceship Earth education programming
  • City of La Porte Park and Recreation Department, erosion control project
  • Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy, ecosystem education programming
  • Highland Community Foundation, community tree canopy project
  • Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center, scholarships for the Stewards of Tomorrow
  • Little River Wetlands, urban turtle education and conservation efforts
  • Michiana Area Council of Governments, Partners for Clean Air
  • Michigan City Area Schools, high school environmental restoration team
  • Porter County Parks Foundation, Sunset Hill Farm County Park Pond restoration phase IV
  • Shirley Heinze Land Trust, educational guidebook project
  • St. Joseph County Parks Foundation, nature education and literacy trail
  • Tippecanoe Environmental Lake & Watershed Foundation, Winona Lake Limitless Park restoration project
  • Trees Indiana, Woodland trails urban forest education
  • Wildcat Guardians, Waterworks Dam Portage trail

In its third year, NIPSCO’s Environmental Grant has donated $150,000, helping 44 projects come to fruition, including support for native species return at Sunset Hill Farm County Park Pond in Porter County, a community tree canopy project in Highland and ecosystem education programming for Fremont Middle School students at Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy nature preserve and Brennan Woods in 2018.

To see what NIPSCO is doing to support the environment, visit NIPSCO.com/Environment.