The James Underwood Crockett Agricultural Technology Growth Fund
Mini-grants made from 1983 through 2012 to 501( c)(3) entities in Massachusetts and the other northeast states of New England & New York.
Grouping of grants, number of grants made, total amount granted and individual grantees
Educational:
1 $ 1,000 Bristol County Agricultural high school
1 $ 1,000 Essex County Agricultural high school
7 $ 8,000 Norfolk County Agricultural high school
7 $ 9,000 Agriculture in the classroom
1 $ 1,000 Oakmont high school
1 $ 500 Monument Mountain high school
1 $ 1,200 Pittsfield high school
8 $ 5,100 Farley 4H outdoor educational center
2 $ 1,400 Mass. Future Farmers of America
2 $ 2,500 Smith Vocational high school
1 $ 2,000 River Valley Technical high school - VT
3 $ 5,000 Windsor County, Vermont Farm Bureau - VT
4 $ 2,000 Mass. 4-H
3 $ 3,000 Hale Reservation
1 $ 500 Mt. Hope Learning Center - RI
2 $ 2,000 Brockton high school
1 $ 500 Seeds of Solidarity Education Center
1 $ 1,000 4-H Good Shepherd Sheep Club
1 $ 1,000 Perkins School Blind – Pappas Hort. Center
48 $ 47,700 = Subtotal
Urban gardens, etc.:
3 $ 2,000 Boston urban gardeners
1 $ 500 Eliot community garden
3 $ 2,600 Christian A. Herter community garden
3 $ 3,800 Whitman, Mass. town center park
1 $ 500 Providence Urban Land Trust orchard – RI
1 $ 1,000 Tower Hill Botanic Garden
2 $ 2,000 New England Wild Flower Society
1 $ 1,000 Museum Fine Arts Teshin-en - Zen garden
15 $ 13,400 = Subtotal
Commodity / research support:
1 $ 1,000 New England Small Farm Institute
1 $ 2,000 Green Industry Council
1 $ 3,000 Mass. Farm Bureau milk project
1 $ 500 Berkshire butternut squash growers
2 $ 1,000 Proctor maple syrup research - VT
4 $ 4,200 Elm Research Institute - NH
1 $ 500 Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group
3 $ 4,500 American Chestnut Foundation tree blight research - VT
1 $ 1,000 Small Woodlot Owners Association of Maine - ME
1 $ 1,500 Mass. Association of Dairy Farmers
3 $ 3,600 Berkshire Hatchery Foundation
1 $ 2,000 Cornell University - urban air pollution - NY
2 $ 2,600 Hampshire College - value added to milk
2 $ 3,200 University of Maine - bumblebee pollinators - ME
1 $ 1,200 University of Connecticut - safety of ground beef - CT
25 $ 31,800 = Subtotal
Other:
13 $ 20,500 Mass. Horticultural Society
1 $ 1,000 Windsor county Vermont agricultural fair - VT
3 $ 2,000 Marshfield Agricultural & Horticultural Society
1 $ 500 Friends of Holyoke Veteran’s Hospital - outside flowers
2 $ 20,000 Kevin Crowe memorial fund
20 $ 44,000 = Subtotal
108$136,900 = Total grants & amount
$136,900 in grants is 64.63% of the $211,800.00 total grants made from 1983 thru 2012