Project Grant 96298212

This $223,600 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund the Children and Teachers Foundation of the Chicago Teachers Union to implement an environmental education initiative in Chicago, Illinois. The key products and services to be delivered include: Hosting two 2-week "EJ Freedom School" cohorts to enable high school students to learn about local air and water quality issues, develop...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, valued at $1,798,366.00, will fund a four-year interdisciplinary effort to develop educational resources that promote data literacy around air quality issues for middle school students and the general public. The key products to be delivered under this Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program grant include: A public data visualization kiosk in Atlanta, GA that will break down current and...

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...

This $143,130 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides funding to the University of Delaware to implement a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) project. The project aims to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in six Title I middle and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $136,629 to New York Sun Works Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement a climate and environmental education program in 8 schools across New York City. The project will deliver weekly, grade-specific instruction on environmental science, STEM, and climate topics, as well as in-class hydroponic farming experiences and climate research projects....

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...

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...

This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports Openlands, a non-profit organization, to implement an environmental education initiative in Chicago, Illinois. The project will train over 30 educators to integrate outdoor learning and hands-on environmental stewardship activities into their lesson plans, empowering them to become teacher leaders who inspire other educators to adapt...

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 $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...