Local Funding Opportunities
Funding for Teachers
Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary Field Trip Bus Scholarship
Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary�s rural Orange County location offers K-12 teachers an exciting way to ignite the interest of their students in the environment. Hikes and activities provide cross-curricular lessons in science, art and culture, and language arts. Each tour lasts approximately two hours. Typical tour topics include: Our Native Habitats, Flora and Fauna of the Santa Ana Mountains, Native American Uses of the Natural Resources, and Nature Observations. Program Fees are only $6 per student.
We realize that the cost of Program Fees and busing combined may be unaffordable to many classes. Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary, with the generous support of SCWRP, is making a limited amount of funding available to assist with busing costs for school field trips to Tucker. Applicants must have 50% of students enrolled in free and reduced price lunch program.
Applicants will be notified by email or phone as soon as possible. For more information contact Marcella Gilchrist at mgilchrist@fullerton.edu or 714 649-2760.
Download the Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary Field Trip Bus Scholarship flyer for additional information and for the application.
Inside the Outdoors Foundation Grants Available for Inside the Outdoors Education Programs
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant funds are available to subsidize the tuition fees for student attendance at various Inside the Outdoors programs.
California Native Plant Society - Orange County Chapter
http://www.occnps.org
For more information about any of the grants, or if you know of a potential recipient, contact Sarah Jayne at sbjayne@cox.net or 949-552-0691.
CNPS also offers posters, books, and more free to teachers. Click here for more information: OCCNPS Teacher Offers.
The Orange County Chapter funds four grant programs:
The Acorn Grant is awarded to programs designed to acquaint young people with California native plants. This might be a school garden project, a field trip to a natural area, an outstanding native plant garden, or any creative idea that reaches the goal. This grant targets students in grades 4 through 6 with an award of $150 to $300.
The Horticultural Grant is awarded to a high school, community college or university student or class involved in using native plants in ornamental horticulture, landscape design or other related fields. It may be used to complete a project assigned and overseen by a faculty member. Up to $500 will be provided to offset costs of the project.
The Travelers Grant covers the costs of attending a native plant-oriented symposium to someone with genuine interest in native plants who might otherwise not be able to attend. This is awarded as needed; the funding amount varies.
The Charlie O'Neill Grant is awarded to a student involved in research in field botany, ecology, floristics, taxonomy, ethnobotany, and other related topics. A limited number of proposals are funded each year ranging from $500 to $1,000 to cover the cost of expendable items that might otherwise not be available to the researcher.
Funding for Providers
California State Parks Foundation Competitive Grants Program
Deadlines: May 1, 2010; July 1, 2010
http://www.calparks.org/programs/competitive-grant/
Information: Alisha: 916-442-2119 or alisha@calparks.org
CSPF offers competitive grants (usually ranging from $200-$6,000) to benefit our State Parks System and to support the Department's mission. Qualified non-profit groups, as well as California state park units and park agencies, are encouraged to apply. In general (and as funds permit), CSPF grants are targeted in four main areas: Volunteer Efforts and Recognition; Education and Interpretation; Natural and Cultural Resource Protection; and Capacity Building for cooperating associations. The Foundation also makes a number of discretionary grants each year that may fall outside the main target areas.
See also Statewide Funding Opportunities (Link will open in a new browser window.)
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