Norcross Wildlife Foundation: Recent Grants

The Norcross Wildlife Foundation was founded in 1965 by Arthur D. Norcross, founder of the Norcross Greeting Card Company and a native of Monson, MA. Located in New York City, the Foundation’s mission includes “To support, through grants, gifts, easements and loans-for-land, the activities of a national and international constituency of not-for-profit wildlife conservation organizations.”

With assets of more than $70 million, the Foundation has awarded grants over the past few years to several Cape Cod organizations, primarily for computer-related equipment. For example:

•  Barnstable Land Trust, $2,000 in 2006, for digital camera and LCD projector

•  Coalition for Buzzards Bay, $3,000 in 2004, for equipment for new facility at Nashawena Mills

•  Coalition for Buzzards Bay, $5,000 in 2007, for an electronic fish counter and/or associated equipment and materials

•  Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, $3,000 in 2006, for computer equipment, digital camera, and GIS software

•  Harwich Conservation Trust, $3,200 in 2004, for PowerPoint projection equipment for public education

•  Harwich Conservation Trust, $3,000 in 2007, for digital copier and desktop computer

•  Orenda Wildlife Land Trust, $2,000 in 2003, for computer-related equipment

•  The 300 Committee, $3,000 in 2003, for digital camera and projector

•  Tuckernuck Land Trust, $5,000 in 2005, for materials for closets, shelves, and hardware for new field station