The Colorado Alliance For Environmental Education (CAEE) received a $133,333 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). This two-year grant will enable CAEE to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Key activities include...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded a $133,333 Project Grant to Mountain Studies Institute Inc. under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will fund the organization's Bridging Mountains: Enhancing Equitable Environmental Education for Southwest Colorado program from April 2023 through April 2025. As the primary recipient, Mountain Studies Institute will implement environmental education activities in 15-20 schools across eight communities in...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $137,500 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 pro-environmental behaviors. Key activities include: updating the...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded a $213,322 Project Grant to Wildlands Restoration Volunteers under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will fund environmental education and stewardship activities in Colorado communities through 2024. Key deliverables include establishing a restoration youth corps for 20 low-income teens, training 40 community leaders through bilingual leadership workshops, and engaging 400 volunteers in 16 high-impact...
This $131,270 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 supports the Project Wet Foundation in implementing environmental education programs in Montana. Funded through the EPA's $66,951 Environmental Education Grants Program, the award will train 100 educators and educate 3,000 middle and high school students on climate change globally and locally through hands-on, inquiry-based lessons. Subawards totaling $25k will be provided to five educational and environmental...
This Project Grant award, made under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides $133,530 in funding to Earth Force, Inc. to implement a regional environmental education project in EPA Region 8. The project aims to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in the region....
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded a $106,565 Project Grant to the Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will support the design, demonstration, and dissemination of environmental education practices in the St. Vrain watershed region of Colorado from April 2023 through April 2025. Specifically, the grantee will develop an inquiry-based 5th grade science curriculum focused on increasing resilience to wildfire...
This $129,450 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 through the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund the High Country Conservation Center (HC3) to implement environmental education initiatives in Summit County, Colorado over a 2-year period from February 2025 to January 2027. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Providing water conservation education to 550 7th grade students through the "Water...
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 $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...