(Courtesy of Akron Community Foundation) Akron Community Foundation’s board of directors recently approved grants totaling $2,698,052, including $2,239,052 in grants from 132 designated, donor-advised, agency endowment and scholarship funds, and $459,000 in competitive civic affairs grants chosen by the organization’s Community Investment Committee. More than … [Read more...]
Help identify plants, critters at Saturday’s Bioblitz in Akron (Article and Video)
Scientists and community volunteers will come together in Akron on Saturday (July 11) to identify as many plants and animals as possible at Haley’s Run, a restored stream that is now part of an urban greenway. The public is invited to help biologists and natural resources experts find and record different species at the Haley’s Run Bioblitz and Birthday Bash, a celebration … [Read more...]
Native trout reintroduced to area streams (Video)
Western Reserve Land Conservancy reports on the success of a program in which Native Ohio Brook Trout were reintroduced to streams after the species was believed to have been lost forever. For info, visit www.wrlandconservancy.org. … [Read more...]
Land Conservancy seeks firms with ‘hands-on’ attitude (Article and Video)
The nonprofit Western Reserve Land Conservancy is looking for companies that encourage employees to take a hands-on approach to volunteering. The Land Conservancy, which permanently preserves natural areas and farmland in northern Ohio and does urban revitalization work statewide, has changed its corporate partnership program to give a company’s volunteers the opportunity to … [Read more...]
