ecoSTEM and ecoSolution grants
Solicitation Title: ecoSTEM and ecoSolution grants
Funding Amount: ecoSolution - $500-$2,500
ecoSTEM - materials only
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, July 15, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://captainplanetfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/CPF_Granting_Guidelines.pdf
Overview
<div>For almost 30 years, the Captain Planet Foundation has supported educators and their work to facilitate youth-led projects that result in positive impacts to the environment of a school or community.</div> <div></div> <div>Captain Planet Foundation grants are intended to: </div> <ul> <li>Empower youth by providing hands-on environmental stewardship opportunities </li> <li>Inspire youth and communities to become agents of change for their environment </li> <li>Serve as a catalyst for education that uses the environment as a context for applied and STEM learning</li> </ul> <div>MONETARY SUPPORT GRANTS:<br><strong></strong></div> <div><strong></strong></div> <div><strong>ecoSolution Grants</strong> are CPF’s broadest category of monetary support for youth-led environmental projects. Available as cash grants for $500 - $2,500, these grants support purchase of materials and other expenses required to implement the project.</div> <div></div> <div>Projects must:</div> <ul> <li>Be based in the U.S. </li> <li>Be solution-oriented </li> <li>Be project-based </li> <li>Be youth-led </li> <li>Result in demonstrable environmental outcomes</li> </ul> <div>MATERIAL SUPPORT GRANTS:</div> <div></div> <div><strong>ecoSTEM Resource Kits</strong> are curated material and activity kits organized by environmental theme (i.e. Renewable Energy, Water Quality, PolliNation, and Earth Soil & Decomposition). Perfect for teachers just getting started with project-based learning or who are new to using the environment as context for learning! ecoSTEM Kits provide a class set of materials that can be used and reused to carry out investigations, engineering design challenges, citizen science projects, and stewardship projects.</div> <div></div> <div>Captain Planet Foundation’s ecoSTEM Kits were curated to engage students in project-based learning, including observing phenomena, conducting inquiry investigations, making models, collecting data for citizen science projects, creating solutions to engineering challenges, and conducting environmental stewardship projects to solve real-world problems. Each kit contains supplies for 32 students.</div> <div></div> <div>Choose from 4 exciting kits, for use with Next Generation Science Standards, GA Standards of Excellence in Science, and state standards in Three-Dimensional Science. A limited supply of kits are available as Material Support Grants through CPF.</div>
Solicitation Limitations: <div>Applicant organizations eligible for monetary support through Captain Planet Foundation must: </div> <ul> <li>Be exempt from federal taxation under the IRS Section 501 (includes most schools and nonprofit organizations), or have a fiscal sponsor that meets this criterion. </li> <li>Maintain an annual operating budget of less than $3 million (only for nonprofits)</li> </ul> <div>Eligibility for ecoSTEM kits: </div> <ul> <li>Limit 1 kit per application </li> <li>Educators (formal and informal), schools and eligible nonprofits that meet CPF funding criteria are welcome to apply </li> <li>Applications and awards work on the same schedule as ecoSolution grants</li> </ul> Other Information:<div>Monetary support from CPF may be used for direct expenses associated with proposed projects. Preference is given to requests that have secured match or in-kind funding commitments to support projects.</div> <div></div> <div>Funds may NOT be used for:</div> <ul> <li>Capital or building campaigns, purchase of real estate, or endowments </li> <li>General operating expenses </li> <li>Salary or contract services </li> <li>Beautification or landscaping projects </li> <li>Travel costs or field trips that are not an essential part of the proposed project (if included, identify the purpose of the field trip under “project activities”)</li> <li>Scholarships</li> <li>Expensive equipment that can only be used once or by a few </li> <li>Promotional items such as t-shirts, flyers, postcards, etc.</li> </ul>Last Updated:
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