Acknowledgements

The Sheehan Family Foundation has been a sustaining contributor to the Jones River Watershed Association, and the acquisition efforts of Jones River Landing. Since 1991, The Sheehan Family has supported staff positions and structural improvements to the storm water infrastructure in the Jones River watershed. These contributions together with their significant donations to the land conservation effort throughout southeastern Massachusetts are enormously important to protecting the quality and natural resources of our region.

The Island Foundation of Marion has supported JRWA for the past 3 years. This family foundation has been most interested in supporting our efforts to restore the herring run to their Silver Lake spawning grounds. With the Sheehan Family Foundation, Island helps JRWA and other regional watershed associations in networking and training for environmental advocacy.

The New England Grassroots Environmental Fund provided a small grant in 2005 to support development of our website, JonesRiver.org. We had begun to make significant progress with this development in 2005 before running into security and technical issues which halted our progress. Recently, (since late April '06) ,our website has finally come back online.

We are now working to utilize NEGEF's contribution once again, making vast improvements in the usefulness of our site by providing important information and tools, which we hope will inspire our members and the public to greater levels of effective environmental stewardship.

The Robbins de Beaumont Foundation, a family foundation based in Boston with local roots, has provided support to JRWA in the past. Late in 2005, Robbins de Beaumont provided a grant to fund a part-time volunteer coordinator at Jones River Landing. Volunteers and in-kind contributions have been the sustaining lifeblood of this project.

With this assistance to coordinate, we hope to provide more communication and be able to put the expressed interest of our members and the public to effective use that is not only helpful to the development of this environmental heritage center, but instructive on the ecology of the Jones River-Cape Cod Bay ecosystem.