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GreenWorks! Grants Available

Do you have an idea for an exciting service-learning or community action project for your students but you don't have enough funds to implement it? Why not apply for one of PLT's GreenWorks! grants? GreenWorks! offers educators the opportunity to apply for grants ranging from $50 to $1000 to implement community action and service-learning projects. Across the country, PLT trained educators teaching in both formal and non-formal settings are eligible to apply for and receive GreenWorks! grants.

GreenWorks! projects should address an environmental issue and involve students from pre-school to high school in hands-on community action. The GreenWorks! program also encourages participants to form partnerships with groups, businesses, or organizations within their communities to help implement and sustain their GreenWorks! projects. Some examples of past grant projects include stream clean-up, graffiti paint-over, outdoor classrooms, gardens (butterfly, vegetable), schoolyard restoration.

Again this grant season PLT has a special GreenWorks! initiative for you to take part in. Funding from the Bureau of Land Management will allow PLT to give grants of $500 to $2,000 for wildfire management/education projects. Project ideas include sponsoring a school or wildfire-safety education campaign, neighborhood canvassing, a fire safety education festival, making the school grounds fire safe by removing brush, replanting trees and native plants after a fire and monitoring what happens, a public photography exhibit, and getting articles on fire safety published in a local newspaper.

If you would like to take part in any of these exciting initiatives please be sure to state in the project summary that your project is a "fire management/education", or "general GreenWorks!" activity.

GreenWorks! Grant Guidelines:

Eligible grant recipient must:

  1. Be PLT trained.
  2. Submit a project proposal (maximum of four pages, see "Project Proposals" for more information).
  3. Propose projects that are community/school based and have student/youth hands-on participation.
  4. Establish a local partnership to implement the project (i.e. school/PTA, business, Boy and/or Girl Scout troop, civic organization, etc.).
  5. Raise 50 percent project matching funds; some of those funds may be in-kind services/time.
  6. Submit a final report for all projects.
  7. Grant funds can not be used to cover salaries of any kind ( i.e. stipends, contract, substitutes, honorariums).

Project Proposals:

To be eligible for review, a project proposal must include thoughtful descriptions and explanations for all of the following items. Please limit applications to no more than four pages.
  1. Provide a one page summary page that includes:
    1. Applicant name, organization/school, address, phone, fax, e-mail.
    2. Project title.
    3. Project type (i.e. garden, recycling, wildlife, tree planting, water testing, fire management/education, etc.).
    4. Project abstract (50 words or less which will be used to describe your project in all written formats).
    5. Funding amount requested.
    6. State and year of applicant's PLT training workshop.

  2. Provide a narrative project description that includes:
    1. Detailed description.
    2. Measurable objectives.
    3. List of project partners (organization names and role they play within project).
    4. Project time line (starting and completion dates).
    5. Total project budget, including matching funds.
    6. Name and mailing address of fiscal agent, if different from applicant.

Proposal Deadline and Award Notification:

GreenWorks! grant proposals will be accepted starting April 19, 2004 through September 30, 2004. Proposals must be postmarked by September 30th. Once proposals are received at the national PLT office please allow 2-3 weeks for written confirmation of receipt of your proposal. Award notifications will be sent approximately 6 weeks after the proposal deadline of September 30th.

Mail your proposals to:

GreenWorks! Grants 2004
1111 19th Street, NW #780
Washington, DC 20036.
(E-mail and faxes will not be accepted.)


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