NEEF's Every Day Capacity Building Grants--offered annually in two cycles (winter and summer)--provide select Friends Groups with funds of up to $5,000 to help build their organizational capacity to serve public lands. A Friends Group is a nonprofit organization whose mission is focused on serving a public land in the United States and the improvement and responsible use of that site.
Learn more about what types of projects are considered to be capacity-building.
In August 2016, NEEF awarded 29 Friends Groups up to $5,000 each to fund a year-long project intended to stengthen their ability to operate more effectively at an organizational level.
Nevada Outdoor School (NOS) was one of 26 organizations granted a 2015 Every Day Capacity Building Grant. In May 2015, Director of Programming, Jessica Snaman, attended the Leave No Trace Master Educator Course at the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, MN.
Click on the links below to learn more about these organizations and to follow the progress of their capacity building proposals.
Every Day Capacity Building Grantees - Summer Round:
AsianWeek Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Chattahoochee Parks Conservancy, Roswell, GA
Friends of Hidden Valley Nature Center, Riverside, CA
Friends of Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD
Friends of the Dunes, Arcata, CA
Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, Woodstock, VA
Friends of the Porkies, Ontonagon, MI
Friends of Tryon Creek, Portland, OR
The Gardens at Heather Farm, Walnut Creek, CA
Hemisfair Conservancy, San Antonio, TX
i-20 Wildlife Preserve, Midland, TX
Independence Pass Foundation, Aspen, CO
Ivy Creek Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Lopez Island Conservation Corps, Lopez, WA
Malama Pupukea-Waimea, Haleiwa, HI
Mill River Wetland Committee, Fairfield, CT
Padilla Bay Foundation, Mount Vernon, WA
Partnership for Providence Parks, Providence, RI
River Restoration Adventures for Tomorrow, Gunnison, CO
Rocky Mountain Conservancy, Estes Park, CO
San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation, Menlo Park, CA
Seven Canyons Trust, Salt Lake City, UT
Stillwaters Environmental Center, Kingston, WA
The Park People, Denver, CO
Travelers' Rest Preservation & Heritage Association, Lolo, MT
Voyageurs National Park Association, Minneapolis, MN
Wabash River Defenders, Wabash, IN
Wolf River Conservancy, Memphis, TN