Cooperative Agreement F12AC01069

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $133,520 Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) grant to Minnesota State University Mankato to implement environmental education initiatives in southern Minnesota. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques focused on increasing environmental literacy and pro-environmental behaviors among middle, high school, and university students. Key program...

The Earth Conservation Corps (ECC), under a $133,333 Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 Project Grant from the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), will provide teacher training workshops on the Eco-Schools USA program curriculum and philosophy. Teachers will then implement the Eco-Schools program with their students, challenging them to evaluate their school's sustainability and design conservation-focused campaigns. Teachers will also participate in additional...

This $141,614 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund the Massachusetts Audubon Society to implement environmental education initiatives in the Massachusetts communities of Springfield, Worcester, and Attleboro. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors through a variety of activities, including: Providing 6 hours of online professional...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $136,629 to New York Sun Works Inc. to implement an environmental education program in New York City. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate climate and environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in over 1,600 K-8th grade students...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $137,500.00 in funding to the Outdoor Lab Foundation to implement an environmental education project in Jefferson County, Colorado. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behaviors. Key activities...

This $815,407 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports Ecology Project International (EPI), a non-profit organization, to implement an environmental education project in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) region of Wyoming and Montana. Over a two-year period, the project will engage up to 340 middle and high school students and their teachers in 30 immersive field science and habitat restoration...

This Project Grant award of $133,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund Sustainable Seattle to implement an environmental education project in the Seattle, Washington area. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behaviors by designing, demonstrating, and disseminating environmental education practices, methods, and techniques. Key activities include establishing...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $143,130 to the University of Delaware to implement a STEM project that will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behavior in six Title I middle and high schools in Delaware. The key activities include: 1) 12-15 teachers...

The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $529,977 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program grant for the project "Fostering a Learning Ecosystem for Interdisciplinary Earth Scientists through Service Learning and Conservation in Jamaica." The project aims to recruit and retain diverse students in the earth sciences and prepare them for global scientific collaborations. Over the 3-year project period, undergraduate and graduate students will lead research...

This Project Grant award of $3,000,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616) will fund a project by The New School's Tishman Environment and Design Center. The project has two key components: Develop an "Energy Transition Educational Series" with three modules on energy systems, climate mitigation policies, energy democracy, and environmental justice-based climate policy. The...