The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to implement an environmental education project in Georgia's Metro Atlanta area. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors by designing, demonstrating, and disseminating environmental education practices, methods, and techniques. Key activities include...
This Project Grant award of $909,800.00 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the National Estuary Program (CFDA 66.456) supports the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) Galveston Bay Estuary Program (GBEP) in implementing its Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. The funding will be used for three key projects: 1) Establishing the Trinity Bay Discovery Center as a demonstration site for green infrastructure to promote coastal resiliency and restore...
This $80,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund a comprehensive environmental education initiative led by Learning Endeavors, a woman-owned non-profit organization. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and promote pro-environmental behaviors in the Hawaiian Islands and...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund the Youth Environmental Alliance, Inc. to implement an environmental education project in Broward County and Palm Beach County, Florida. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors. Key activities include...
This $133,334 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports Austin Youth River Watch to implement an environmental education project in Austin, Texas. The project will provide a semester-long afterschool program and a summer program in outdoor environmental education for 90 high school students, conduct bi-monthly water quality testing at 20 sites with students, perform 10 environmental...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008) will support a 2-year effort by the Houston Humane Society to engage educators and students in Houston Independent School District and surrounding districts in Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs). The key components include: 1) a 4-day professional development workshop for 25 educators to learn the MWEE...
This $195,459 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund Neighborhood House of Milwaukee, Inc. to implement a two-year environmental education initiative. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors among underserved youth in grades 1-12 in...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports the Sierra Streams Institute, a nonprofit organization in California, to implement an environmental education initiative. The key activities include: Developing a Watershed Communication Toolkit (WCT) to enhance students' critical thinking and science literacy by facilitating communication between peers on regional watershed issues. The WCT will...
This $136,629 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will enable New York Sun Works Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement an environmental education program for over 1,600 K-8 students across 8 schools in New York City. The key products and services to be delivered include: weekly grade-specific instructional sessions on environmental, climate, and STEM topics through the lens of urban farming; in-class...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $107,342 to Protect Our Water Jackson Hole, Inc. to implement an environmental education initiative in Teton County, Wyoming. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors within the local community. Key activities include hands-on...
This federal Project Grant award of $134,954 from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides funding to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to implement environmental education initiatives in Channelview and Houston, Texas.
The key products and services to be delivered through this 1-year grant award include: developing watershed stewards teams with two high schools, engaging 180 students in community vulnerability assessments, creating community resiliency plans, facilitating student-led watershed and biodiversity audits, hosting an environmental action day and outdoor field experiences, conducting student-led community forums, and providing environmental education training to teachers. NWF will also provide subawards to several local partners, including the Galveston Bay Foundation, Ziggy Champion Kids, Channelview ISD Education Foundation, Coastal Prairie Conservancy, and Houston Parks and Recreation Department, to support various aspects of the project such as watershed education, community engagement, materials for service projects, field experiences, and resilience training.
The overall goal of this project is to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors among students, teachers, and community members in the targeted areas through hands-on, project-based environmental education activities.