Funding-NEEF--National Environmental Education Foundation Announces America's Great Outdoors: Connecting Youth to the Outdoors Grant Program; September 19, 2012

Description

The National Environmental Education Foundation, in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, United States Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, have launched the America's Great Outdoors: Connecting Youth to the Outdoors 2012 Grants program.

Through the new program, NEEF and its partners seek to catalyze efforts to increase the number of pre-K-12 youth, particularly urban and/or underserved youth, who build a connection with public lands as places for recreating, learning and volunteering. Proposed projects should maximize hands-on outdoor engagement opportunities on public lands, focused on the areas of 1) education — opportunities that provide quantifiable and meaningful conservation education outcomes that enhance environmental literacy, support STEM education, and use of the environment as a context for learning; 2) recreation —opportunities that promote healthy lifestyles, build outdoor recreation skills, and engage youth in active recreation such as hiking, paddling, snowshoeing, hunting and fishing, wildlife watching, and geo-caching; and 3) environmental stewardship — opportunities that provide quantifiable and meaningful conservation outcomes such as native fish-focused stream restoration, species- focused landscape restoration, invasive species removal, native plant restoration, wildlife surveys/assessments, project monitoring, and trail restoration. 

Closing Date: September 19, 2012

Link to Full Announcement

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=388300024

Contact Information

For all questions regarding the online application system, or the requirements of the application itself, please contact grantsadmin@neefusa.org.