Open Space Institute Inc

Programs: Conservation communities: citizen action is the primary initiative in this program. Citizen action provides fiscal sponsorship and administrative support for a broad range of grassroots projects that protect natural habitat, enhance communities to make cities more livable, promote envirornmental sustainability, provide education, and connect people with the land. Through the organization's board of trustees, staff and consultants, citizen action also provides technical, legal and administrative assistance to community groups participating in the program.

environmental education: this program includes both the malcolm gordon charitable fund which makes grants to local organizations for environmental education programs and the barnabus mchenry hudson river valley awards program which annually grants funds to pairings of young leaders and exemplary projects that make significant contributions in environmental conservation, historic preservation, tourism, and the arts in the hudson river valley.

the organization through its supporting organization, open space institute land trust ("osilt") protects critical open spaces, habitats, recreational lands, family farms and historic sites through direct acquisition and conservation easements. In addition, osilt also provides grants and loans primarily to other land trusts for transactions in selected geographies in the eastern united states and canada that protect habitat, open space, water quality and lands that safeguard wildlife in a changing climate. In 2017, osilt protected 5,379 acres having a fair market value of $8. 4 million. In addition, osilt made 36 grants totaling $4. 8 million, resulting in the protection of 16,499 acres in eleven states and provinces with a fair market value of $40 million.