2023- 2024
Grant Award Summary
The Ned Jaquith Foundation received 15 grant request proposals this year, totally over $62,000. The board selected the following Grant Award Winners:
$3,100 to Manuela Parra, Ecuador, for “Refinement of an in vitro propagation protocol for Guadua angustifolia to produce plants for environmental recovery.”
$5,000 to Prince Sasu, Ghana, for “Sustainable Utilization of Bamboo Leaves as Livestock Fodder: Focus on the effect of bamboo leaf extract and leaf meal on embryonic development, hatchability, chick quality, port-hatch growth performance, and gut functioning of broiler chickens.”
$5,000 to Mauricio Mora Tello, Mexico, for “Community workshops on the cultivation, transformation and consumption of Bamboo shoots for low-income families in the Northeastern Sierra of Puebla, Mexico.”
$5,000 to Peter Van Lengen, Mexico, for “Bamboo Buddy” developing 10 educational videos (in English) explaining the applications of bamboo conservation sustainable architecture and everyday life.
$3,500 to Ruth Sayuri Escobedo, Peru, for “Development of an in vitro Propagation Protocol for Guadua weberbaueri to Support Environmental Restoration of Degraded Sites in Madre de Dios, Peru.”
$3,000 to Yarith Hidalgo Castro, Mexico for Empowering Indigenous Women of the Mixteca through Bamboo Handicrafts.”
$285 to Audrey Merecki, USA, for “Lunar Bamboo Greenhouse Project.”
NJF received 39 applications for grants this year, with a total request for funds over $200,000! Oh how we wish we could support them all! After much deliberation, the NJF board selected the following Award Winners:
$3995 was awarded to Tamara Britton-Mendiata, Canada, Bamboo for People and Primates: “Bridging the Gap” through a Community-Based Habitat Restoration Approach in the Pacoche Wildlife Refuge, Manabi, Ecuador
$2,900 was awarded to Francisca Ely, Venezuela, Conservation strategies to protect threatened bamboos of the Venezuelan Andes: enrichment of live collections herbarium and DNA collections and the creation of a replicable educational program for the region
$2,900 was awarded to Elizabeth McMurchie, USA, Systematics of the Guadua paniculata species complex in Mexico
$2,500 was awarded to Mythmakers, aka Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein, USA, Increasing Public Appreciation of the Bamboo at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens at the Historic Bamboo Farm, Savannah GA
$3,147 was awarded to Manuela Parra, Ecuador, Development of an in vitro propagation protocol for Guadua angustifolia to produce plants for environmental recovery of degraded sites
2022-2023 Grant Award Summary