Impact
Twice a year we award grants. Here is what that money did.
Short reports from the field — fencing on Elfin Forest Road, a Fire Safe Council website, cameras in a preserve, a picnic that needed chairs.
Elfin Forest Interpretive Center / The Escondido Creek Conservancy
Photo contest display at the Interpretive Center
April 2023 · $1,134
A $1,134 grant helped the Interpretive Center hang the annual amateur photo contest — animals, plants, water, and youth — so visitors actually see the watershed they walk.
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Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Fire Safe Council
A website for the Fire Safe Council
October 2022 · $5,000
A $5,000 grant built the Fire Safe Council a real website and email so defensible-space advice and alerts reach the whole community, not just whoever is on a paper list.
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The Escondido Creek Conservancy
Trail cameras for Keithly Preserve
April 2020 · $1,055
Four locked Browning trail cameras let the Conservancy watch wildlife and trespass on Keithly Preserve without posting a ranger on every acre.
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Trail and fencing repairs
April 2020 · $9,000
A $9,000 grant helped the Trails Committee replace aging fence along community trails — the same ten miles of rail that walkers, bikes, and horses share along our roads.
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Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council
Keepin’ It Rural 5K/10K underwriting
October 2019 · $2,500
A $2,500 underwrite of the Keepin’ It Rural trail race and festival so the Town Council could put the event on without gambling the whole budget on a weather weekend.
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The Escondido Creek Conservancy
Trail maintenance machinery for Los Cielos
March 2019 · $3,565
A Yardmax power trackbarrow with hydraulic hopper and blade, used to move repair material and debris on Los Cielos Preserve trails.
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Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council
Fourth of July parade and picnic
April 2018 · $3,000
A $3,000 contribution toward chairs, tables, a DJ, and portapotties for the yearly Fourth of July parade and picnic — the gathering most of the valley still marks on the calendar.
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Harmony Grove Spiritualist Association
Native restoration after the Coco’s Fire
April 2018 · $4,000
After the 2014 Coco’s Fire, $4,000 plus donated labor replaced native plants and trees and repaired the drip system on ground the whole valley looks at.
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