The Alliance for Green Heat, a non-profit based in Maryland, collaborates with local, state, and federal governments to promote wood banks. It began offering a financial assistance program to wood banks around the nation in 2022.

Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners (KNP) operates a wood bank in the Kearsarge region. With over 30 active wood bank volunteers, they delivered 82 loads of emergency wood last year.  KNP is most grateful to be among the first round of award recipients of The Alliance for Green Heat financial assistance grants. 

KNP applied for and received a grant totaling $9,300 for two new pieces of equipment.  A heavy-duty wood splitter will allow them to process cut wood donated from local residents who have had trees taken down and bucked, and a 5′ x 10’ aluminum utility trailer will make it easier for them to deliver wood to neighbors with heating emergencies.