Grants for Projects and Supplies: Science/Environment

ASM Materials Education Foundation
The ASM Materials Education Foundation is sponsoring 10 grants each year for teachers. Each grant has a value of $500. The purpose of these grants is to enhance awareness of materials science and the role of materials scientists in society.
www.asminternational.org

Captain Planet Foundation
Awards to encourage children worldwide to solve environmental problems in their communities. Awards are between $250 and $2,500 for schools and nonprofit organizations that develop innovative environmental projects for youth that promote cooperation, planning, and problem-solving skills.
Deadlines: June, September and December
www.captainplanetfdn.org

Cottonwood Foundation
The Cottonwood Foundation offers small grants to local community organizations (including school-based groups) that use volunteer energies to protect the environment and promote cultural diversity. Cottonwood is interested primarily in funding that makes a difference for local community empowerment.
www.cottonwoodfdn.org

Cyber-Sierra's Conservation Grants Center
Find grants and funding for environmental education, conservation, ecology and natural resource projects.
www.conservationgrants.com/education.htm

Dunn Foundation's Visual Environmental Education
Information on the Foundation's environmental education grantmaking programs open to schools and organizations), samples from the upper elementary curriculum "ViewFinders," teacher workshop info and ordering forms. Deadline: March
www.dunnfoundation.org/educate.htm

Entergy Corporation's Environmental Stewardship Grant Program
Provides support to community-based projects that protect, enhance or preserve the environment. Grants are available up to $25,000, but typically range between $5,000 and $10,000. Deadline: May
www.entergy.com/Corp/she/grant.asp

Environmental Grantmaking Foundations
This directory of foundations gives environmental grants. Also the membership directory for the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Published annually in the spring.
www.environmentalgrants.com

EPA's Environmental Education Grants Program
Supports environmental education projects that enhance the public awareness, knowledge, and skills to help people make informed decisions that affect environmental quality. EPA awards grants each year based on funding appropriated by Congress.
epa.gov/enviroed/grants.html

Future Fisherman Foundation
Provides grants of up to $5,000 each to incorporate quality, viable fishing and boating programs into curriculum-basd K-12 physical education classes during school hours.
Deadline: September
www.futurefisherman.org

Geographic Education National Implementation Project
Rewards projects that further geography education. Winners recieve $5,000 and recognition at the AGA annual meeting. Deadline: September
genip.tamu.edu/travelocity.htm

Hudson River Foundation
Through the Foundation's three Funds, the Hudson River Fund, the Hudson River Improvement Fund and the New York City Environmental Fund, the foundation awards grants and fellowships.
hudsonriver.org/

Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS)
Provides grands for innovative education or public outreach that features collaboration between educators and space/science professionals. Deadline: October
ideas.stsci.edu

Lake Education Assistance Program (LEAP grant)
For water, lake and watershed education educational field trips and activities. Also for seminars and workshops. ($500 maximum)
www.epa.state.il.us/water/conservation-2000

Lowe's Charitable and Educational Grants
Fund scholarships for trades and construction education and outdoor learning programs and more.
www.for-wild.org/seedmony.htm

Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Fund
Small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other educational organizations whose efforts best reflect the message of creating natural landscapes using native plants such as a prairie, woodland or wetland.
www.for-wild.org/seedmony.htm

Melinda Gray Ardia Foundation Grants
Teachers worldwide are invited to apply for grants of $1000 to develop or implement environmental curricula that integrates hands-on ecology exercises into the classroom. Curricula that encourage the integration of multiple disciplines (such as integrating art and science), and which include cooperative work with multiple school districts will be given special consideration. Deadline: April
www.mgaef.org

National Association for Humane and Environmental Education Award Programs
Offers annual awards to a teacher, classroom and children's book authors.
www.nahee.org/awards/default.asp

National Center for Environmental Research
The EPA's National Center for Environmental Research awards grants to fund environmental research. Such offers are available to academic institutions and students as well as small businesses.
es.epa.gov/ncer/

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Awards funds to projects benefitting conservation education, habitat protection and restoration, and natural resource management. Federal and private funds are provided to the Foundation and awarded as challenge grants to on-the-ground conservation projects. The term 'challenge grant' indicates that the seed funds must be matched with additional funding, thereby multiplying.
www.nfwf.org/programs/programs.htm

National Gardening Association's Grants and List of Grants and Awards
www.assoc.garden.org/grants/

National Science Teachers Association
Awards various grants throughout the year.
www.nsta.org

National Weather Association Sol Hirsch Teacher Grants
K-12 teachers are eligible for one of 5 awards available to improve students' education in meteorology. Teachers selected will be able to use the funds to take an accredited course in atmospheric sciences, attend a relevant workshop or conference or purchase scientific materials or equipment for the classroom.
www.nwas.org/solhirsch.html

NYC Department of Sanitation's Golden Apple Awards
TrashMasters! Super Recyclers rewards schools in each borough with cash prizes for model school recycling programs that comply with NYC Department of Sanitation regulations. TrashMasters! Reduce & Reuse Challenge awards cash prizes to schools in each borough for the most innovative and successful waste prevention practices. TrashMasters! Team Up to Clean Up gives cash prizes to schools in each borough for outstanding community cleanup and neighborhood beautification projects. Award levels change year to year based on available funding.
www.nyc.gov/html/dos/html/news-events/contest5.html

Project Learning Tree Greenworks Grants
Project Learning Tree (PLT) funds grant requests from teachers ranging from $200 to $1000 to implement environmental community action and service learning projects.
www.plt.org/greenworks/grantinfo.cfm

Schering-Plough
Drug company supports high school programs promoting careers in the biotech and health care sciences. They sponsor student-teacher mentor programs and and summer camps and sponsor school public health initiatives focusing on asthma and obesity.
Deadline: Ongoing
www.schering-plough.com/schering-_plough/corp/corporate_responsibility.jsp

Seaworld/Busch Gardens/Fuji Film Environmental Excellence Awards
Program recognizing and rewarding K-12 students & community groups working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve their local environment.
Deadline: December
www.seaworld.org/conservation-matters/eea/

Toshiba America Foundation Grants
The Toshiba America Foundation seeks to support projects designed by classroom teachers to improve K-12 science and mathematics education. As many as 75 grants of up to $1,000 each will be awarded to K-6 classrooms, and many more, some as high as $25,000, will be awarded to grades 7-12.
www.toshiba.com/about/taf/grant.html

Toyota TAPESTRY Grants
The Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Teachers awards grants 50 one-year grants of up to $10,000 each and 20 "mini-grants" of $2,500 each to K-12 science teachers. Interested science teachers should propose innovative science projects that can be implemented in their schools or school district over a one-year period.
www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry/index.htm

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Leadership Program
Leadership program for the study of Biology or Environmental Science to Science teachers grades 6-12 all expenses paid. Online application.
www.woodrow.org/teachers/