NEEF, with major funding support from Samsung, is offering a total of $12,000 in funding to educators in the New York City/northern New Jersey area and the Washington, DC metro area for programs that support the integration of Greening STEM into place-based, hands-on learning experiences on a public land or waterway. Grants will range in size from $1,000 to $5,000 each.
Every Day Capacity Building Grants provide Friends Groups with grant funds of up to $5,000 to help build their organizational capacity to serve public lands.
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2016 National Public Lands Day Proclamations for the State of New Mexico
2016 National Public Lands Day Proclamations for the State of Rhode Island
On September 24, 2011, approximately 200 volunteers came out to Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC for National Public Lands Day. They cleared trail and removed invasive species. Afterwards, volunteers attended a recreation and health fair at the Rock Creek Park nature center, which featured guest speakers including Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin.
In the inaugural episode of NEEF's new education podcast, we'll take a look at the big picture, sharing how NEEF looks to connect people to environmental knowledge and talking with educators in the field to learn what benefits they have seen in their EE activities. Hear from Diane Wood, President of NEEF, about NEEF's work and how she first took interest in the field.
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), in partnership with PRE (Partners in Resource Education) will award a total of $65,000 to Hands on the Land (HOL) Network sites to support their efforts to deliver high-quality placed-based environmental education and STEM programming that is aligned with national K-12 education standards.
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) and U.S. Forest Service are offering a total of $15,000 in grant funds for U.S. Forest Service partners who support Forest Service sponsored National Public Lands Day (NPLD) projects. The goal of NPLD is to improve the quality of public lands and to educate the public about natural resource issues and stewardship.
This report details the challenges facing sustainability professionals and executives who want to make significant changes at their companies and working with their company's human resources department.
