The Woodland Park Zoological Society, doing business as Woodland Park Zoo, was awarded a $507,070 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a Conservation Leadership Program at the zoo. The program will equip approximately 28 zoo supervisors and project managers with the knowledge and skills to apply equity, inclusion, and anti-racist practices to the zoo's...
Zoo New England (ZNE) will receive $149,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program to develop an engagement initiative targeting underserved communities in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Through the one-year award period ending October 2022, ZNE will work to identify at least 150 stakeholder organizations to partner with to bring an estimated 5,000-9,000 local residents into focus groups, community asset mapping...
The Woodland Park Zoo will partner with Refugee Women's Alliance (REWA) to provide $494,782 in nature-based early childhood programming through August 2024. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program, the partners will co-design and deliver inclusive learning activities aligned with curricula used in REWA's early learning centers and other regional preschools. They will create complementary resources in four languages to support...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $126,480 Project Grant through its Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to Great Explorations Inc., a non-profit organization operating the Great Explorations Children's Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The grant funds will support the design and fabrication of new exhibit space to enhance the well-being and impact of the museum's living collection. Key project activities include purchasing supplies and materials to create...
The Detroit Zoological Society will partner with three community-based youth organizations to implement a $390,078 virtual STEM education program for low-to-moderate income and students of color in the Detroit metropolitan area. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program, the project will train staff from the Detroit Zoo and partner organizations in inquiry-based, humane virtual STEM instruction. Trainees will then develop and...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $497,500 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to the Conservation Society of California (doing business as The Oakland Zoo) to pilot a community feedback and conservation project. The project aims to promote community engagement, access, and inclusion by utilizing an internal steering committee, an external community advisory council, and a listening tour in Oakland to solicit community feedback. The project will also...
The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance received a $1,295,666 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will enable the organization to develop a cryopreservation storage repository for exceptional plants and build the capacity of botanic gardens across the United States to utilize such a repository. The project aims to create procedures for a multi-institutional repository, develop protocols to expand...
The Zoological Society of San Diego, doing business as San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, received a $561,747 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund a 3-year project to build evaluation capacity across the zoo's three education teams by conducting a needs assessment, crafting an evaluation strategy, providing staff training, designing and piloting new evaluation tools, establishing reporting...
The Chicago Zoological Society, operating as Brookfield Zoo, was awarded a $491,844 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The grant will fund the development of a sustainable model to build the capacity of K-12 educators to advance conservation leadership through student-centered, inquiry-based instruction with multi-disciplinary connections. Key activities include revising and developing training curriculum,...
The Lincoln Park Zoological Society, doing business as Lincoln Park Zoo, was awarded a $501,790 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Museums for America (MFA) program. The grant will enable the zoo to expand the scope and scale of its paid internship program over a three-year period, with the goal of increasing participation of young adults from lower-income backgrounds. The project will support fair compensation for all interns, provide...