The CoNPS Mission Grant Committee made a follow-up award of $750.00 to Jennifer Bousselot to support continuation of a multi-year project assessing green roof effects on flowering phenology and pollinators.
Category: Mission Grants
Fall 2019: Mission Grant Awarded to Jennifer Bousselot for Green Roof Research
The CoNPS Mission Grant committee awarded $750.00 to Jennifer Bousselot to support research on green roof effects on flowering phenology and pollinators.
Spring 2019: Mission Grant Awarded to Mary Menz and the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose Colorado
The CoNPS Mission Grant committee awarded $700.00 to Mary Menz and the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose Colorado. The award will support interpretive signage about regional native plant communities and Ute ethnobotanical uses of local plants.
March 2018: Mission Grant Awarded to Legend High School to Establish Native Plants Club
The CoNPS board has awarded a Mission Grant of $182.90 to Norman Lenard, a teacher at legend High School to establish a new club at the high school, called “Native Plants and Environmental Concerns”. The grant will be used to purchase supplies for a project to grow native plants from seeds and plant the seedlings Read More …
March 2018: Mission Grant Awarded to the CO Foundation for Agriculture to Support Colorado Reader
In March 2018, the CoNPS board awarded a Mission Grant of $700 to the Colorado Foundation for Agriculture to support the printing of their April 2018 Colorado Reader on Native Plants. The foundation produces seven 8-page educational newsletters each year that contain information on different agricultural topics. The April issue is focused on native plants Read More …
March 2018: Mission Grant Awarded to Longs Peak Science Foundation to Sponsor Award for Plant Science
March 2018: The CoNPS Board of Directors awarded a $125 grant to the Longs Peak Science Foundation to sponsor one Junior Level Award for plant science.
February 2017: Mission Grant Awarded to Native Plant Masters Program to Update CO Plant Database
Mission Grant Awarded to the Native Plant Master Program At their meeting on February 4, 2017, the CoNPS Board of Directors awarded a $200 grant to the Native Plant Master Program in Jefferson County to update their Colorado Plant Database. The Colorado Plant Database contains detailed information on the identity, ecology, and human connections for Colorado Read More …
February 2017: Mission Grant Awarded for Garden Guides to Print Low-water Garden Guides
New Mission Grant Awarded for Low Water Garden Guides At the February 4, 2017 board meeting, the Board of Directors voted to provide $2,411.00 for the printing of 1,110 copies of the new CoNPS Low Water Gardening Guides which had been produced by the Horticulture Committee last year for the following areas in Colorado: Front Read More …
November 2014: Mission Grant Awarded to Jennifer Ackerfield to Print “Flora of Colorado”
In their November 2014 board meeting, the Board of Directors decided to give a $1,000 Mission Grant to Jennifer Ackerfield’s new Flora of Colorado. Jennifer has been working on this book for twelve years and it is the first full flora since Harrington’s in the 1940’s. She is in the process of raising funds for Read More …
February 2014: Mission Grant Awarded to Janet Wingate to Purchase Illustrations for “Sedges of CO”
The Board of Directors awarded a $500 Mission Grant to Janet Wingate to fund the purchase of illustrations for her Carex book. The illustrations are from Flora of the Pacific Northwest by Hitchcock and Arthur Cronquist. With the purchase of these illustrations she will be very close to completing the Carex key.
February 2014: Mission Grant Awarded to Colorado Natural Heritage Program to Enter Adopt a Rare Plant Data
At the February 1, 2014 board meeting, the board of directors voted to award a $2,000 grant to the Colorado Natural Heritage Program. The funds will be used to pay the salary of an intern to enter Adopt a Rare Plant data into the CNHP database.