The Kodak American Greenways Awards Program, a partnership project of the Eastman Kodak Company, the Conservation Fund , and the National Geographic Society , provides small grants to stimulate the planning, design, and community acceptance of greenways in communities throughout America. So what’s a greenway? The sponsors define it as:
… protected, public and private land established along rivers, stream valleys, ridges… canals… or other linear features. They link recreational, cultural, and natural features, provide pathways for people and wildlife, protect forests, wetlands and grasslands, and improve the quality of life for everyone.
Although greenways improve the quality of life for everyone, the funders here recognize that some communities may need some persuading:
Grants may be used for activities such as …developing brochures, interpretative displays, audio-visual
productions, or public opinion surveys; and hiring consultants
The sponsors will accept applications from now through June 15.
Click here for more about the program.
Click here to download the application guidelines.
The Center for Urban Pedagogy wants to bring advocates for good cause together with some high caliber graphic designers to make posters about your policy issue. The image above is a sample of their work with water issues. I bet you fit this description of what they’re looking for:
…advocates, organizations, and researchers with complex policy issues that need visual explanation. Advocates chosen through the juried submission process will receive 1000 copies of the color publication to distribute directly to their constituents and an honorarium of $1000. CUP will manage the research, editing, and production processes and will provide additional staffing… This series aims to make information on public policy truly public: accessible, meaningful, and shared.
I don’t know anything about these guys but I like where they say they’re coming from. If you’ve never worked with a serious visual designer, and I know a lot of you haven’t, it’s a lot of fun.
Only one catch: “You must be able to attend meetings in New York City.”
Proposals due 4/21/08. Click here to download the application.
If you have volunteers out in the streams, then you have until April 15 to apply for a whopping big grant to strengthen your organization and its outreach efforts. YSI Corporation, which manufactures scientific instruments used in our work, has a philanthropic arm that will award a “Minding the Planet” grant of $60,000 to an organization that demonstrates a need for capacity building in a volunteer monitoring organization, whose work focuses on activities throughout an entire watershed.
The YSI Foundation defines capacity building as any of the following:
1. Assistance with staffing, or
2. The development or enhancement of outreach and training programs, or
3. Infrastructure development.
I’m not sure how YSI defines “outreach” but I’m sure you’ll come up with some good uses. To learn more, click here.
Hat tip to L.G. for spotting the opportunity.
Heads up to readers in the Pacific Northwest — the Bullitt Foundation is calling for grant applications for programs to “to inform, organize, and engage diverse groups of people to protect the environment.” The next deadline for a letter of inquiry is March 15.
The Foundation is explicit about its willingness to fund lots of efforts that other foundations shy away from:
- Polls
- Media Training
- Fundraising
- Voter education campaigns
- Electronic communications
- And more
Click here for more information.
And as long as we’re on the subject of money… there’s only 5 days left to make a donation to the “Conservation Communicator Convalescence Fund” (You knew I’d come with up with an alliteration sooner or later, I just can’t help myself). As you know, one of my regular readers is quite ill and could really use your moral and financial support to get through this difficult time. A number of you have already pitched in, and I’m super grateful! Even the smallest contribution will warm her heart, and mine. Please give today!
