"Our teams are embedded in the communities we serve, and we knew that there were dedicated organizations doing this work," Dana Berkes, public affairs manager at NIPSCO, said. "As it turns out, they were spending their time spreading native seeds and tagging turtles and monarchs instead of researching NIPSCO grants. The NIPSCO Environmental Action Grant was born with a call out to the mavens of the ecosystem to say 'we have the funds: tell us what you need and what you want to do and let's see if it's a fit.'"