Grant Opportunities

 

Grant Opportunities

UPCOMING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

 


Sustainable Energy Award

 

The $10,000 Sustainable Energy Award will be presented to each of the top three high schools that can demonstrate how they have engaged students and teachers in school-wide energy savings through the creative and innovative use of technology.  For more details, click here.

Application deadline: February 10, 2012


It's All About the Fruit and Veggies Grant

 

Passionate about supporting schools and communities by promoting health, wellness and physical activities, Jamba Juice is sponsoring the It’s All About the Fruit and Veggies grant program to provide schools with $500 in gardening supplies, curriculum, soil amendments and plants to help create engaging nutrition and gardening experiences. Recipients will be selected based on plans to promote nutrition education, ideas for incorporating fruit and vegetable activities into the curriculum, and ability to sustain the program over multiple years. For more details, click here.

Application deadline: February 15, 2012


$1 Million Technology Contest "Solve for Tomorrow"

Samsung and its partners are asking teachers to participate in its contest which will address a key academic challenge in our country: to increase the pursuit of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. 25 teachers will be chosen to have their classes create videos addressing the challenge, "Show how STEM can help improve the environment in your community. All 25 chosen teachers will be sent a video creation kit to help complete the task. These 25 teachers and schools will then be in the running to win technology for their school, with at least 12 receiving a technology grant.  For more details, click here.

Application deadline: March 12, 2012


Siemen's We Can Change the World Challenge

 

The Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge is a K-12 Sustainability Challenge. Through project-based learning, students learn about Science and conservation while creating solutions that impact their planet.  For more details, click here.

Application deadline: March 15, 2012


Gardening for Grades School Garden Mini-Grants

Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, Inc’s School Garden Mini Grant Program is designed to fund school garden projects that will educate Florida’s students about the importance of agriculture and allow teachers to use a school garden to teach math, science, social studies and language arts. Those who receive funding for a school garden project will also receive a copy of Gardening for Grades, a new book for teachers to help them get the most out of their school gardens, including tips on securing funding, planting Florida fruits and vegetables, and using the garden to teach more than a dozen lesson plans and activities.  $500 mini grants will be awarded. For more details, click here.

Application deadline: May 1, 2012


 
ONGOING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES


League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF) Grants page

 

The League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF), Inc., is committed to environmentally educating Florida's citizens. LEEF provides a network for awareness, communication and growth about Florida's natural environment. It is imperative that Florida's citizens recognize the complex web of bio-physical interdependences upon which sustainable life is based.
Education is vital to wise decision-making about our relationship with and the use of our natural resources in the finite world. In order for Florida's environment to continue to provide high quality life, we must all understand and accept our roles and responsibilities to the natural systems of which we are a part.

For more information on various grants available for teachers, click here.

Deadline: There are various deadlines on this webstie


The Julio Garden Fund

 

The Fund provides reimbursements for seeds, seedlings, or approved garden frame materials up to the awarded amount. Typically awards are limited to between $50 and $100 dollars and are granted only to schools, non-profit groups and/or individuals working with community gardens.  Preference are given to projects committed to organic methods of growing edibles

For further details click here.

Deadline: There is no deadline for this program


Do Something Seed Grant

Are you working to start a community action project or program?  Do you need money to put your ideas into action? If you answered, "YES!", you are eligible to apply for a Do Something Seed Grant.  They give out a $500 Do Something Seed Grant every week to help young people realize their ideas and programs.  For more details, click here.

Application deadline: There is no deadline for this program.


 

 

Updated: 2/3/2012