Southwest Atlanta Can Vote for $30,000 National Grant Today

Dear Cascade Patch Community:

A homegrown organization, The has been chosen as one of six finalists to receive a $30,000 national watershed grant from MillerCoors, one of the nation’s top brewers, and River Network, a national non-profit working to improve the health of rivers and watersheds.

But, we need the support of our community to win! Vote for WAWA to receive the $30K grant at www.rivernetwork.org/2011-millercoors-watershed-grants-contest. 

WAWA will use the grant funds to engage West Atlanta residents in water conservation initiatives, water quality monitoring, and creek clean-up/watershed restoration projects. The work will happen at and around the Outdoor Activity Center, the, and in the Proctor Creek Watershed (from English Avenue/Vine City to Donald L. Hollowell Parkway and I-285). 

WAWA is a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life within the West Atlanta Watershed by protecting, preserving and restoring the community’s natural resources. WAWA represents African American neighborhoods in Northwest and Southwest Atlanta that are most inundated with environmental stressors, but are often least represented at environmental decision-making tables.

Since 1995, WAWA, in partnership with members of the West Atlanta community, has diligently worked to protect green space and water quality in West Atlanta while educating residents about important environmental issues that affect their communities.  As an all-volunteer organization, WAWA was successful in preserving over 400 acres of green space from development in Southwest Atlanta and raised over $2 million dollars to do so (even before becoming a 501 c(3) organization).

WAWA is the official steward of the 26-acre , the 135-acre Cascade Springs Nature Preserve and the 200-acre ; all in Southwest Atlanta.

Voting closes at 8:00 pm EST on Sunday, March 20, 2011. But why wait? Don't delay...VOTE TODAY!

You can only vote once, so please pass this on to family and friends and encourage them to VOTE! For more information about WAWA and how to volunteer or collaborate with us to achieve a cleaner, greener, healthier, and more sustainable West Atlanta,  organization please contact:

Darryl Haddock, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA), Environmental Education Director, Info.wawaonline.@gmail.com, (404) 752-5385

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