USEPA recently announced the Environmental Education Grant opportunity.
Approximately $3 million will be awarded to fund an estimated 90 – 95 projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers, and citizens. This grant program provides financial support for innovative projects that design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques that reflect the USEPA Education priorities listed below.
Education priorities include:
(1) EE Capacity Building: Building the capacity of agencies and organizations to develop, deliver, and sustain comprehensive environmental education programs statewide or in multiple states.
(2) Educational Advancement: Utilizing environmental education as a catalyst to advance state or local education improvement goals.
3) Community Projects: “Community Projects†address environmental stewardship in a local context and use community-based stewardship activities as the primary teaching tool.
(4) Human Health and the Environment: Educating teachers, students, parents, community leaders, or the public about human health threats from environmental pollution and how to minimize human exposure to preserve good health.
(5) EE Teaching Skills: Providing pre-service and in-service professional development for teachers, faculty, or non-formal educators to improve their environmental education teaching skills and/or knowledge about environmental issues and content, such as sustainability, water and air quality, chemical risks, hazardous wastes, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
(6) Career Development: Educating individuals in formal or non-formal settings about environmental issues for the purpose of encouraging interest in environmental careers.
Grantees must establish methods to document and report measurable results from grants projects. To ensure that grant proposals are competitive, please read Sections IV and V of the announcement regarding how to structure a proposal.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2009
Match Requirement: 25%
Total Estimated Funding: $3 million
The full announcement can be found at http://epa.gov/enviroed/pdf/solNotice2010.htm.
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