Heads up Arizona readers: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is accepting applications for grants for “education projects that ultimately reduce nonpoint source pollution in Arizona.”
Would they accept social marketing ”education?” I don’t know. Interested in running a campaign, but don’t know where to start? Drop me a line or give me a call.
Deadline for pre-proposals is 2/28. Click here for the full scoop.
I’m back at my computer after spending a week in the Caribbean goofing off, and I’m going through the thousand + email messages that stacked up in my absence.
Here are a few tidbits worth relaying:
National Forest Foundation “Collaboration Support Program” Grant Oppotunity
The National Forest Foundation, in partership with the Surdna Foundation, is distributing grants of up to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations under the auspices of its “Collaboration Support Program.” The notice specifically references both watershed management and community outreach and communications, so this has potential for you.
Grants are available only to formally established nonprofit organizations that can demonstrate their involvement in some kind of collaborative community project related to a national forest or grassland and the waters found there. The good news is that if you meet those very specific criteria, the program is otherwise very flexible — no matching funds are required and the grantee can use the funds for both projects and planning, and to hire consultants.
Applications are due 10/26. Click here to learn more about the Collaboration Support Program.
NOAA’s Chesapeake B-WET Grant Program
Better act fast if you want in on this action, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting proposals for environmental education projects in the Chesapeake Bay region. Applications are due on October 19 and can be for as much as $75,000, it seems. Click here to learn more.
Environmental Communication for Behavior Change.
Duke University’s Environmental Leadership Program will be running an online course on environmental “social marketing” from 1/15 to 2/24 — persuading everyday citizens to change their polluting and wasteful ways using commercial marketing techniques. The course will be lead by Brian Day, executive director of the North American Association for Environmental Education. I spoke on a panel once with him and he’s very good. I might sign up for this one myself.
Click here to learn more, or write del@nicholas.duke.edu
Clean Water for the Future-Will Georgia’s New Water Plan Provide Enough Clean Water for the Future?
That’s the title of a symposium that some Georgia conservation groups held last week to focus attention on the state’s forthcoming water plan. It’s chock full of water words that work! Good job, guys! This is a powerful way to set up the discussion.
Click here to see the agenda.
NC Beautifulworks to improve the splendor and quality of North Carolina’s environment while developing our future environmental leaders.
Between now and October 15th, NC Beautiful is now accepting applications for its “Windows of Opportunity” mini-grants of up to $1000 for teachers to improve their students’ “appreciation of the environment which in turn improves the beauty of our State.”
It looks like you have to be in North Carolina to qualify. If you are, click here!
The Temper of the Times Foundation is accepting applications through October 15 for grants between $5,000 and $15,000. Grants may be used to fund “the production of print, radio, or television ads, to pay for advertising space or airtime, or to produce or distribute pamphlets, books, videos, or press packets.”
These days, $15,000 is real money. It’s enough to produce a decent TV ad and buy a considerable amount of airtime in a small town. It’s enough to build a campaign website and do a lot of promotion to drive traffic to it. It’s enough to create a provocative billboard that people will blog about.
The foundation will not provide grants to run your nonprofit organization, for blatant lobbying, or to get anybody elected to office. But, they don’t seem to require matching funds, and don’t seem to care what part of the country you are active in.
Water Words readers, it’s really rare to find a grantmaker that will invest in this kind of activity… if you’ve ever contemplated taking something like this on, this could be your chance.
Hat tip to Russ Cohen of the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition, who circulates useful tips like this on the MWC listserv. If you’re in Massachusetts, the list is a must-read.
