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GE Vernova Foundation’s announcement yesterday of a new grant program focused on green spaces took place at the New York Stock Exchange where foundation and company leaders rang the Opening Bell® in recognition of Earth Day. The Foundation committed a $500,000, two-year grant to the Trust for Public Land (TPL). Half of the funds are allocated to helping bring green spaces to the underrepresented communities of Dorchester, Roslindale and Mattapan in the Boston area (where GE Vernova opened its headquarters in Cambridge in 2023) via TPL’s Parks for People program. The other half is allocated to Atlanta, where the company has one of its largest U.S. sites, to fund TPL’s Community Schoolyards program, which will support Atlanta Public Schools by transforming 10 schoolyards.
This photo shows the Edgewater neighborhood waterfront along the Neponset River next to Mattapan Square, which TPL describes as “the bustling center of one of Boston’s largest Black and Caribbean communities. A long stone barrier “has walled off residents from the river for decades, impeding recreational use, attracting illegal dumping, making people feel unsafe and depriving the community of the many health benefits that come from local access to nature.” Funds from the grant program will help restore a half-mile of overgrown trail, design a new park and reconnect residents to “this beautiful waterway in their own backyards.”
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