Deadline: 4 February 2014
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Education is offering ‘Environmental Education Model Grants’ 2014. The grant program aims to support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers, and citizens. Environmental education (EE) projects that will serve as models of practices, methods and/or techniques that can be replicated in a variety of settings will be funded by the grant program.
Projects that provide a variety and range of educational and environmental priorities, geographic areas, and audiences as compared to the pool of previously funded projects in each Region are encouraged to apply for the grant opportunity.
Estimated budget of the competitive funding opportunity is approximately $2,778,940 nationwide for total of 22-32 grants nationwide.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Any local education agency, college or university, state education or environmental agency, nonprofit organization as described in Section 501(C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a noncommercial educational broadcasting entity as defined and licensed by Federal Communications Commission located in the United States or territories and the majority of the educational activities must take place in the United States; or in the U.S. and Canada or Mexico; or in U.S. Territories are eligible to apply. A teacher’s school district, an educator’s nonprofit organization, or a faculty member’s college or university is eligible to apply, but an individual teacher or faculty member is not eligible for the grant program application.
- Applicants must demonstrate that their application is for a project for which they (the applicant) have not been previously awarded a grant by EPA’s Environmental Education program; or the applicant must demonstrate that they are expanding, broadening or otherwise enhancing a project previously funded by EPA’s EE Grant Program in such a way that it could serve as a replicable model of environmental education practices, methods, or techniques.
- Applicant must agree to award exactly 25% of the funds received from EPA to eligible sub-recipients in the form of sub-grants of $5,000 or less. All recipients of awards under this RFP must ensure that all the sub-grants they award with funds from this program go to entities that would qualify as eligible applicants. Applications must describe how the applicant’s project will result in awarding exactly 25% of the amount awarded by EPA as sub-grants of $5,000 or less to eligible sub-awardees/sub-grantees.
- The application must address at least one of the educational priorities (EE Capacity Building, Educational Advancement, Community Projects, Human Health and the Environment, EE Teaching Skills, Career Development); and at least one of the EPA’s environmental priorities (Addressing Climate Change and Improving Air Quality, Taking Action on Toxics and Chemical Safety, Making a Visible Difference in Communities Across the Country, Protecting Water, and Launching a New Era of State, Tribal, and Local Partnerships).
- Application must satisfy the definition of ‘environmental education’.
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