Summary(0:40) Introductions of Laura Treciokas, Christine Holowacz, Laura Truettner and Peter Washburn and origin of the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) -- (4:30) Working with Attorney General’s office in the beginning of the fund, putting together a Community Advisory Panel -- (7:07) Insuring proposed projects from community were considered in competitive grant fund -- (11:40) Money was mismanaged from Newtown Creek Environmental Fund from DEP and not wanting that to happen in this fund -- (19:00) Working with National Wildlife Federation and matching funds -- (23:20) Helping small projects plan and develop ideas, innovative to have general administrator helping -- (27:05) National Wildlife Federation ranked first round of proposals -- (35:20) First awarded project was mural at M.S. 126 -- (44:20) Educational programming funded through Greenpoint Eco-Schools and importance of transparency in grant funding
NoteAudio interview conducted on February 27, 2019 by Acacia Thompson on Huron Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
SubjectExxon Mobil Corporation ; Oil spills ; New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation ; New York (State). Office of the Attorney General ; National Wildlife Federation ; Grants-in-aid
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TitleOral history interview with Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) conducted on 2019 February 27.