Past Small Grant Awardees

With support from our generous sponsors, the program was able to award $260,000 to 14 land trusts throughout the country in 2025. Projects include bird-friendly habitat management, engaging volunteers in bird monitoring, outreach and education events, and many other activities to increase capacity in the land trust community.

Read more about the 14 land trusts and conservation organizations that received a total of $230,000 in small grant funding in 2024. Project activities include restoring habitat for birds, engaging volunteers in bird monitoring, building regional collaborations, and other bird conservation efforts.

In 2023, thanks to support from generous sponsors, the program was able to award $230,000 to 14 land trusts throughout the country to assist awardees with management and restoration of private protected lands, integrate bird conservation and tools into prioritization and planning, and develop partnerships within the birding community to amplify conservation efforts.

This funding supports management and restoration, integrating bird conservation into land prioritization and planning, and the development of partnerships within the birding community to amplify conservation efforts.

Read about the fourteen projects that received funds in 2021 from the Cornell Land Trust Grant Program. This funding supports management and restoration of private protected lands, land acquisition costs and stewardship, the integration of bird conservation and tools into prioritization and planning, and the development of partnerships within the birding community to amplify conservation efforts.

Learn more about the nine organizations and projects that received funds in 2020, the fourth year of the Cornell Land Trust Small Grants Program. This funding supports strategic bird conservation within the land trust community.

The Cornell Land Trust Small Grants Program is pleased to announce its third year of annual grants to support strategic bird conservation within the land trust community. Learn more about the six awardees who received funds at the $20,000 and $5,000 levels.

Learn more about the three organizations who are, providing ecosystem incentive payments to farmers to develop delayed mowing schedules around grassland birds in Maine; utilizing eBird to formalize data collection and inform best management practices and strategic land acquisition for riparian birds in California; and focusing on engagement by training landowners to manage habitats, as well as developing resources for improving bird habitat in suburban landscapes in New York and Connecticut.

In May 2017, the Cornell Land Trust Small Grants Program awarded its first grants to support strategic bird conservation within the land trust community. Learn more about the four organizations who received funds to protect critical habitats, such as oak forests in Oregon and estuaries in Maine, as well as help declining bird species, such as the Golden-winged Warbler in Vermont and Lewis’s Woodpecker in Colorado.