Project Grant NA22NOS4290088

The Wildlife Conservation Society received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on August 15, 2022 to support the IGNITING MARINE PROTECTION & CAREERS FOR TEENS (IMPACT) program. The grant was awarded under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215)....

Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), through its National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), awarded a Cooperative Agreement of $122,660.30 to the Zoological Society of San Diego, doing business as San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026. Under this award, SDZWA will deliver the Wildlife Rangers Program, providing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classroom programming and immersive...

This two-year, $298,908 project grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group to deliver meaningful watershed educational experiences and curriculum integration for all 5th grade students in the East Wenatchee, Washington school district. The goal is to increase authentic, locally relevant science education and student-led stewardship actions to improve local watersheds and recover imperiled salmon...

This Project Grant award of $435,825.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science, provided under CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, supports research at Western Washington University (WWU) to investigate the use of strategic anthropomorphic animal imagery (SAAIS) to activate empathy, promote conservation behaviors, and engage diverse populations. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year project include:...

This $147,468 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Inland Seas Education Association to deliver a Great Lakes watershed field course professional development program. The Association will bring 30 K-12 educators to the Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station in Suttons Bay, Michigan from April 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 for four-day training sessions emphasizing hands-on experience with regional conservation success stories. Participants will visit...

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...

Summary The University of Washington received a $216,181 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective October 1, 2025 through August 31, 2029. The project will develop and deliver a data-driven, justice-oriented curriculum unit on wildfires for middle school students, co-designed in partnership with teachers, teacher...

This $103,868 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the implementation of an authentic inquiry-based laboratory curriculum, called AIM-BIO, at the University of Arizona, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The key goals are to: 1) Develop a professional development program to train teaching assistants (TAs) on how to effectively mentor students in the AIM-BIO curriculum's open-ended scientific inquiry process, and 2)...

This $210,656 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports Sequoia Riverlands Trust, a nonprofit organization, to implement an environmental education and community engagement program in Visalia, California. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate educational practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors among...

This $222,051 project grant from the National Science Foundation will support the Authentic Research Experiences for Teachers at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites project. Under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), pairs of high school teachers from schools with large populations of underrepresented students in STEM fields will conduct authentic research at three Long Term Ecological Research sites spanning Arctic, temperate forest, and coastal marine ecosystems. Over an 18-month...