In the year 2008, the George & Miriam Martin Foundation encouraged the preservation of rivers and watersheds by making grants to the following organizations:

• American Rivers, $5,000
• American Whitewater, $5,000
• Audubon Pennsylvania, $10,000
• Beacon Institute, $10,000
• Central Pennsylvania Conservancy, $2,000
• Clean Water Fund, $10,000
• Clearwater, Inc., $1,000
• Delaware Riverkeeper, $50,000
• EarthJustice, $50,000
• Forest Guardians, $1,000
• French and Pickering Creek Conservation Trust, $25,000
• Friends of Blackwater Canyon, $5,000
• Friends of the River, $1,000
• Friends of the Wissahickon, $1,000
• Green Valleys Association, $10,000
• Highlands Coalition, $1,000
• Historic Yellow Springs, $10,000
• International Rivers Network, $25,000
• Intervale Center, $2,000
• Izaak Walton League of America, $2,000
• Natural Lands Trust, $10,000
• Nature Conservancy of Pennsylvania, $1,000
• Penn Ecological Preservation, $5,000
• PennEnviroment, $10,000
• Pennypack Ecological Preservation, $5,000
• Reclam the Bay, $15,000
• River Alliance of Wisconsin, $2,000
• River Network, $1,000
• Sanibel-Captiva Conservation, $5,000
• Schuykill River Greenway Association, $15,000
• Student Conservation Association, $1,000
• West Virginia Rivers Coalition, $2,000
• Wildlands Conservancy, $2,000
• Woodstock Land Conservancy, $1,000

Total for 2008 = $302,000

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Danny N. Schweers