Harpeth Conservancy
Founded in 1999 as the Harpeth River Watershed Association, the Harpeth Conservancy is a science-based conservation organization whose mission is to restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in Tennessee by using its scientific expertise to actively support local community stewardship and action. Harpeth Conservancy works with landowners, businesses, community, local, state, and federal decision makers and others to foster solutions that reduce pollution and maintain healthy areas. The rivers in Tennessee, including the Harpeth, are part of the unique freshwater river systems of the Southeast which contain some of the greatest variety of aquatic life in the world.
Grants
| Grant Year | Amount | Program Name | Program Area | Description |
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| 2020 | $41,000 | wildlife conservation | Learn more | |
Harpeth Conservancy’s water quality science and policy expertise will focus on creating and implementing two critical programs, a TN statewide conservation policy platform and an urban streams program both mitigate pre-existing environmental challenges and to bring in new, younger, and more diverse leadership from our rapidly growing cities. |
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| 2019 | $36,000 | wildlife conservation | Learn more | |
Harpeth Conservancy’s water quality science and policy expertise will focus on critical community engagement, leadership building, and capacity-building to enable reinvigorated collaborations to restore water quality across an entire river system– the State Scenic Harpeth in the greater Nashville region—and throughout middle Tennessee and the State. |
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| 2018 | $15,000 | Core Mission Support | wildlife conservation | Learn more |
To support programming and general operations. |
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| 2017 | $15,000 | Core Mission Support | wildlife conservation | Learn more |
To support programming and general operations. |
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| 2016 | $15,000 | Core Mission Support | wildlife conservation | Learn more |
To support programming and general operations. |
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| 2015 | $40,000 | State Scenic Harpeth River Basin Assessment and Restoration Project | wildlife conservation | Learn more |
HRWA will convene a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of water quality professionals that will oversee a comprehensive plan to conduct water quality monitoring and assessment, and use the results to drive fish habitat and river restoration priorities. A citizen science component will be incorporated into each phase of the project. |
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| 2015 | $5,000 | Water Collaborative | wildlife conservation | Learn more |
To support the water collaborative planning |
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