FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2009


Crawford Stewardship Project Awarded Grant

Crawford Stewardship Project has just been awarded a generous grant from the Wisconsin Community Fund. “We are grateful and honored to have received these funds to continue to build our organization and pursue our many projects,” according to Edie Ehlert, CSP Coordinator. These funds will support efforts to continue the CSP mission to protect the environment of Crawford County from threats such as those posed by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and to promote sustainable land use, local control of natural resources, and environmental justice. Projects include educational presentations, water monitoring near CAFOs, karst geological identification workshops and promotion of a regional karst and soils study.

Wisconsin Community Fund, www.wcfund.org raises money and gives it away to groups that are too new, too small, or too controversial for mainstream funding. WCF is committed to progressive social change in Wisconsin.

CSP has just been granted their nonprofit status (501c3) with the state as well. Donations to CSP are now tax deductible.

Submitted by Edie Ehlert
Crawford Stewardship Project Coordinator

"While CAFOs clearly are profitable, they are only profitable because so much of the cost and damage is externalized onto the environment, neighbors and wildlife. The monitoring, supervision, clean-up, restitution, fines are not happening, thus the true cost of CAFOs never find the way onto the balance books." Talking point from the CAFO Conference.