Grants
Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! Pollinator Garden Grants
Project Learning Tree® (PLT), an award-winning national environmental education program for educators and their students in grades prekindergarten through 12, is offering grants to teachers who have registered for PollinatorLIVE through its GreenWorks! Program.
PLT’s service-learning program GreenWorks! provides grants to schools and youth groups for environmental neighborhood improvement projects. These “learning-by-doing” projects combine academics with community service. They partner students with local businesses and community organizations, and provide community and school-based opportunities for student leadership.
Special GreenWorks! Pollinator Garden Grants are available for teachers and students
participating in PollinatorLIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure. Participating teachers can apply for GreenWorks! funding to create pollinator gardens in your schoolyard or community. The maximum grant amount is $500, and the deadline to apply is December 3, 2010.
To Receive a GreenWorks! pollinator garden grant:
1) Applicant must be trained in PLT
2) Applicant must be registered for and participate in PollinatorLIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure
3) A main component of the project must include the creation of a pollinator garden on school grounds or in the community
4) Youth must implement the project
5) Project must integrate student learning and community service
6) Project must include at least one community partner
7) Project must acquire 50% matching funds (may be in-kind)
CLICK HERE for the grant application. For more information, visit http://www.greenworks.org or contact Imad Aoun at iaoun@forestfoundation.org. The GreenWorks! Connecting Community Action and Service Learning Guide is available at http://www.plt.org/greenworks/greenworksguide.pdf.
Additional Grants
A number of other organizations provide funding for schoolyard gardens.
National Gardening Association
http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp
The National Gardening Association works with sponsoring companies and organizations to provide in-kind grants to projects that actively engage kids in the garden and improve the quality of life for their communities. To be eligible for these awards, your school or organization must plan to garden with at least 15 kids between the ages of 3 and 18. Please note that all grant winners are required to complete a year-end impact report (see individual grants for details).
Seeds for Education - Grants for School Gardens and Community Nature Areas
http://www.for-wild.org/seedmony.html
The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other non-profit educational organizations for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. The grant recipient learning centers are those which most successfully reflect the Wild Ones mission to educate and share information about the benefits of using native plants in our landscape and to promote biodiversity and environmentally sound environmentally sound practices. Only through this knowledge, can we appreciate humankind's proper place in the web of life. Applicants must apply by October 15 of the year prior to the grant year.
More opportunities:
California Fertilizer Foundation - http://www.calfertilizer.org/grant.htm
FSEP Farm to School - http://fsepmichiganf2s.blogspot.com/2009/10/upcoming-school-garden-grant.html
Home Depot - http://www.kidsgardening.com/ygg.asp
Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant - http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/
Mantis - http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants/mantis-criteria.asp
Syngenta IPM in School Gardens Grant - http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants/syngenta.asp
University of Nebraska Extension - http://extensionhorticulture.unl.edu/Education/Resources.shtml
Western Growers grants for California and Arizona - http://www.wga.com/default.php?id=138