GRANTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Save-the-Redwood-League: Grants for Education on Forest Stewardship

The Save-the-Redwood-League's Education Grants Program funds projects that provide engaging, firsthand experiences of redwood forests for youth (pre-K thru college); for example, through field trips, park interpretive programs, service projects, and after-school or family programs among the redwoods. Projects must connect more underserved, low-income youth to the redwoods through culturally relevant projects that reflect the changing demographics of California and the United States including, but not limited to: projects that connect rural redwood region communities with the forest resource in their backyards, and projects that connect urban communities with local, regional, or distant redwoods. Maximum Award: $5,000. Eligibility: schools and 501(c)3 organizations. Deadline:July 3, 2013.

The Fruit-Tree Planting Foundation: Fruit Tree 101

The Fruit Tree 101 program creates outdoor edible orchard classrooms at public schools of all levels across the country, providing generations of students with environmental education opportunities and a source of organic fruit for improved school lunch nutrition. The "Fruit Tree 101" event is typically completed in two parts. The first is held on a weekend to accommodate volunteer schedules, and involves planting the orchard under the direction of our certified arborist. The school helps coordinate local volunteers for this day. The second part, held when school is in session, invites students to join FTPF's instructors for a fun, hour-long lesson about the importance of trees for the environment and fruit in the diet-culminating in a group tree planting exercise. Maximum award: varies.  Eligibility: schools in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, San Antonio, San Francisco/Oakland, and Washington, D.C. Deadline: rolling.

Fender Music Foundation: Grants

Fender Music Foundation grants are awarded to music academies, schools, local music programs, and national music programs across America, particularly in-school music classes, in which the students make music; after-school music programs that are not run by the school; and music therapy programs, in which the participants make the music. Maximum award: $5,000. Eligibility: established, ongoing and sustainable music programs in the United States, which provide music instruction for people of any age who would not otherwise have the opportunity to make music. Deadline: rolling.  

Source:  Public Education News Blast

Published by LEAP

Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP) is an education support organization that works as a collaborative partner in high-poverty communities.