Project Grant SIS40010GR0058

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 Greening Youth Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $110,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to provide recruitment and placement services under the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment federal grant program (CFDA 15.676). Through this award, Greening Youth Foundation will recruit and place a diverse pool of U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident youth and young adult candidates between the ages of 16 to 30...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will enable Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE), a non-profit organization, to implement a 1-year project that designs, demonstrates, and disseminates environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in Pittsburgh, PA. The key activities include: 1) Creating eco-student...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), awarded City Parks Foundation $165,309 to implement a two-year environmental education initiative spanning January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027. The project delivers comprehensive afterschool and summer programming to freshman and sophomore high school students across the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, designed to increase environmental literacy and foster long-term...

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC) was awarded a $130,626 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) to develop a Junior Young Naturalist program. The program will provide environmental education to middle school students through Propel Schools' summer camps for five weeks and a one-week intensive program for 12 youth ages 13-15. It will also provide $5,000 subawards to five organizations to support...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $319,855 cooperative agreement to the Biji-Biji Initiative of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to design, implement, and oversee the 2022 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Summit in Brunei Darussalam. The summit, taking place under the federal Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants (CFDA 19.022), will gather alumni of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative to discuss a green recovery...

The Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) will provide mentoring and positive youth development activities for 300 underserved youth in Los Angeles, California through a $681,818 grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Specifically, YMC will implement its Mentoring Making Resiliency Real program from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The program will connect at-risk youth ages 13-17 with caring adult mentors...

Through a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.839 - STOP School Violence Program), Youthpower365 will implement the Family-Centered Youth Violence Prevention Program. This project aims to deepen the existing partnerships between the Eagle County School District, Youthpower365, and Mountain Youth to expand and enhance youth violence prevention strategies. Key activities will include hiring a...

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 $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...