The following grantees were awarded a Future Leaders of Watersheds (FLOW) grant for the year 2007-2008 by the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service through a Learn and Serve America grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. The organizations focused on engaging youth in their community to improve watershed health. More than $145,000 was awarded for grantees in the 2007-2008 year.

Eastern Coal Regional Roundtable
Taylor County
More than 25 youth participating
The Tygart Project is a watershed service-learning project that will engage youth as leaders for a community educational float trip, monitoring of the Tygart River, the instruction of young 4-H members, and the creation of Club Tyggers - a youth watershed club.

Cacapon Institute
Morgan, Hardy, Mineral and Hampshire counties
More than 25 youth participating
Cacapon Institute will locate and organize adult mentors to engage middle and high school youth into PHLOW - Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds. The PHLOW teams' youth will identify problems in local watersheds, formulate remedies and take action. They will reflect on their learning, review the challenges and write outcome reports to be published on Cacapon Institute's web page.

Friends of Deckers Creek (FODC)
Monongalia and Preston counties
200 middle and high school students participating
Friends of Deckers Creek (FODC) will collaborate with Friends of the Cheat and several existing education programs to give elementary, middle and high school students in Monongalia and Preston counties watershed service-learning experiences through the Young Friends of Watersheds program. The program will collaborate with High School Health Science and Technology Academies (HSTA) in Monongalia and Preston counties, the Mountaineer Challenge Academy students at Camp Dawson, West Virginia University, the Mountaineer Boys and Girls Clubs and Rowlesburg Middle School in Preston county. The project will expand the FODC Youth Advisory Board.

West Virginia Ministry of Advocacy and Workcamps with McDowell County Wastewater Coalition
McDowell County
25 to 35 middle school students participating
The McDowell County Wastewater Coalition has developed a project called FLOW-UNITE - Future Leaders of Watersheds Understanding Needs in the Environment. FLOW UNITE will focus on the need for long-term baseline stream quality monitoring and youth and adult watershed education.

Potomac Valley Audubon Society
Berkeley and Jefferson counties
More than 150 elementary school youth participating
The "Watershed Education Initiative" is currently reaching 550 4th grade children in Jefferson and Berkeley counties in five schools. With FLOW funding, the program will expand to include 5th grade students that participated previously as 4th graders to reinforce and build upon previously-learned watershed concepts. The program will provide students with hands-on science activities related to watersheds, including water quality testing on the Opequon/Potomac and completing a water quality improvement project at their school.