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The following resources might be useful to teams of individuals and organizations that are designing projects to improve the health of the Great Lakes basin ecosystem. This is not designed to be an exhaustive reference, but a selective list of helpful resources.

News, Events, and New Ideas

Daily News in the Great Lakes Region
http://www.great-lakes.net/news

Project Results: Annex 2001 Implementation Toolkit
http://www.glpf.org/interest/Annex Toolkit.htm

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Information on the Great Lakes

A Glossary of Great Lakes Terms/Acronyms
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/pubs/ggl/index.html

Great Lakes Biological Diversity
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/ecopage/glbd/index.html

Images of the Great Lakes
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/image/

NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (CEGLHH)
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Centers/HumanHealth/

The Great Lakes Information Network
http://www.great-lakes.net

The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/atlas/intro.html

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Other Potential Sources of Funding

Great Lakes Information Network Funding Database
http://www.great-lakes.net/infocenter/news/funding.html

Great Lakes Protection Fund State Shares Programs
http://www.glpf.org/about/state.html

Ontario Great Lakes Renewal Foundation
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/programs/3671e.pdf

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
http://www.mott.org

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Funding Guidance
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/fund/glf.html

The George Gund Foundation
http://www.gundfdn.org

The Great Lakes Community Foundation Environmental Collaborative
http://www.cmif.org/GLcollaborative.htm

The Great Lakes Fishery Trust
http://www.glft.org/

The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network
http://www.greatlakesseagrant.org/

The Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org

The Richard Ivey Foundation
http://www.ivey.org/

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Project Design Resources

Fund Resources: GLPF Policy on Intellectual Property
http://www.glpf.org/Policy on Intellectual Property.pdf

Fund Resources: Preventing Biological Pollution – Supplemental Materials
http://www.glpf.org/interest/bio-materials.html

Fund Resources: Restoring Natural Flow Regimes – Supplemental Materials
http://www.glpf.org/interest/flow-materials.html

Fund Resources: Using Market Mechanisms for Environmental Improvement – Supplemental Materials
http://www.glpf.org/interest/market-materials.html

Harvard Business School Resources
http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/socialenterprise/index.html

Stanford Graduate School of Business Resources
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/library/class/stramgt369.html

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management
http://www.allianceonline.org/

The Bridgespan Group: Business Planning for Nonprofits
http://www.bridgespangroup.org/kno_articles_businessplanning.html

The Due Diligence Tool: For Use in Pre-Grant Assessment
http://www.geofunders.org/_uploads/documents/live/GEO%20Due%20Dilgence%20Tool.pdf

The Nonprofit Manager’s Library
http://www.mapnp.org/library/

Yale-Goldman Sachs Partnership in Nonprofit Ventures Resource Center
http://ventures.yale.edu/aboutresourcecenter.asp

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