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Trash Free Waters on Any Timeline

If you have an extra five seconds, five minutes, or five hours, here are some ways to help keep America's...

Shining the Spotlight on Women in STEM

Check out our collection of online educational resources for Women's History Month, a celebration of the vital...

The Early Blooms of Spring: How Climate Change Impacts Growing Seasons and You

Many plants and trees are blooming earlier than they did over the past century due to milder winters and...

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Students from Quad Cities Iowa plant native trees during a Greening STEM project in prairie

Quad Cities Students Capture Creativity Through Greening STEM Project

What role do the arts play in STEM learning? Thanks to a partnership between NEEF and Arconic Foundation, students in Iowa’s Quad Cities region got to put these

Two woman (one standing, one in a wheelchair) with big smiles hike Wildcat Creek Trail past green hills studded with trees

Bay Area Nonprofit Drives Accessibility on Public Lands Thanks to NEEF Grant

Toyota-NEEF's Driving Mobility and Accessibility on Public Lands Grant funds Access to Nature, led by Bonnie Lewkowicz, enhancing park accessibility for diverse

California poppies in orange bloom covering the fields and hills

NEEF Conservation Grant Supports Biodiversity in the California Floristic Province

NEEF and Toyota funded $220,000 for biodiversity conservation in California's Floristic Province. Four projects, from grassland health to aspen restoration

Group of students standing in a group outdoors

Visually Impaired Students Gain Access to Nature Through Sound

Visually Impaired Students Gain Access to Nature Through Sound thanks to the Driving Mobility and Accessibility on Public Lands Grant supported by Toyota

NPLD highlighted site volunteers pose for a group picture

NPLD Highlighted Sites Focus on Community and Connection in the Wake of COVID-19

On the fourth Saturday in September each year, NEEF joins forces with its longtime partner Toyota Motor North America for the nation's largest single-day

Mississippi River Park Connection volunteers

Islands in the Stream: How One Minnesota Nonprofit Brought People Together to Restore a Mississippi River Habitat

The Mississippi Park Connection recently completed a massive conservation project to reforest a beneficial barrier island within the Upper Mississippi River.

Crowd at a pier at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan

Reaching the Beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes

With assistance from a NEEF grant, Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes conducted accessibility assessments on four beaches and 20 miles of trails throughout the

Student winners of the Samsung Climate Superstars Challenge!

Michigan Middle School Science Class Wins Environmental Education Challenge

Last month, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) partnered with Samsung and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program to present the 2019 Climate

Landscape photo of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River valley in Washington State

A Seattle-based nonprofit has conserved public lands for three decades. This year, Congress finally took notice.

Seattle in 1990 was a much different place than it is now. Grunge music had yet to go mainstream, Starbucks was still a local gourmet coffee chain, and Amazon

Volunteers with the Mountain Studies Institute at a stewardship event

Local nonprofit helps Colorado community heal from wildfire devastation through environmental stewardship

It was like something out of an old John Ford Western: on the morning of June 1, 2018, a coal-fired locomotive slowly chugged its way through the picturesque