The Gray Family Foundation’s Environmental Education program seeks to support programs that stimulate or promote the teaching of environmental education in K-12 environments and increases outdoor experiences that connect youth with built and natural environments.
Donor Name: Gray Family Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/11/2022
Size of the Grant: $5000- $ 25000
Details:
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to have wide-reaching effects on communities across the state of Oregon – and organizations that provide and support environmental education have been significantly impacted. They recognize the ongoing uncertainty that organizations, educators, and families continue to face and educators will face when connecting with youth during the next year are complex.
In 2022 Gray Family Foundation is continuing to seek applications from organizations that promote outdoor, environmental, climate, and/or land-based education in formal and informal K-12 educational environments to increase outdoor, experiential experiences for youth – either during the school day, as part of distance or virtual learning, or as a service or opportunity offered to families and youth outside of the context of the school setting.
Scope
Gray Family Foundation’s Environmental Education program seeks to increase:
- Diversity of youth and communities engaged in outdoor, environmental, land-based, and climate education learning experiences.
- K-12 youth’s ability to collaborate, problem solve and apply critical thinking to local and global environmental issues.
- K-12 youth’s preparedness for success in careers inside and outside of the environmental field through increased participation in environmental education.
- Educators’ (K-12 teachers, administrators, and informal educators) preparedness to integrate environmental, outdoor, and climate education across subjects.
- Educators’ preparedness to support K-12 student needs utilizing best practices and rigor.
- K-12 professionals’ preparedness to use the natural and built environments and systems as a context for learning.
Funding Information
Grant award $5000- $ 25000.
Funds can be used to support:
- General operating expenses for a mission-aligned organizations or program or project expenses within an organization (i.e. an organizations’ education program or a new project within an organization). This can include but is not limited to:
- Dedicated staff time.
- Training and professional development for educators (in person or virtual).
- Costs associated with developing and implementing in person or virtual curricula and programming (e.g., classroom materials, books, toolkits, virtual field trips, etc.).
- Costs associated with facilitating learning experiences outside the classroom either on or near school grounds or, if possible, away from school grounds.
- Administrative support.
Eligibility Criteria
They will consider proposals submitted by schools, districts, colleges, tribal entities, government agencies or(501c)3 non-profit organizations serving Oregon.
For more information, visit Environmental Education Grant.
