Deadline: 9-Nov-21
Applications are now open for the Conservation Grant program to support conservation projects and research in Columbus and central Ohio.
Conservation of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats has been a vital part of the mission of Columbus Audubon for over 100 years. In this spirit, Columbus Audubon offers a conservation grant program to support the conservation of Ohio’s native bird species.
The Conservation Grant Program offers financial support for innovative habitat management, habitat protection, and scientific research projects, especially in central Ohio.
Aims
The Bird-Friendly Communities initiative is aimed at helping people to make bird-friendly lifestyle choices in their homes, backyards, and communities, including:
- Native Plants for Birds: By simply choosing native plants when they landscape their yards, neighborhood parks, and public spaces, they can help restore vital habitat for birds in their communities.
- Lights Out Creating Safe Passage: Cities across the flyways are turning off their lights at night, reducing the disorienting effect of light pollution, thereby saving millions of birds each year, including Magnolia Warblers, American Woodcocks, and Yellow-billed Cuckoos. Efforts to reduce reflective surfaces by applying films to existing glass, or by using bird-safe glass in new construction further reduces the number of bird collisions at both commercial and residential buildings.
- Avian Architecture: Providing Good Homes for Birds: From Prothonotary Warblers and Chimney Swifts to Osprey and Eastern Screech-Owls, many species of birds can be given a better chance to survive and thrive through a little assistance from structures they build—birdhouses, roosting towers, and nest platforms. For some species, these structures tip the scales back in their favor, reducing declines in populations and restoring species to places they once inhabited.
Funding Information
- Conservation Grants program has awarded well over $20,000 in grants.
- Grant requests can be made for up to $3000 for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations and education institutions, and up to $1500 for businesses, clubs and organizations not registered as 501(c)(3), and individuals.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is open to non-profit organizations, businesses, clubs, educational institutions, and individuals.
- Preference will be given to projects that occur within central Ohio, have an outreach component, and support National Audubon Society’s Bird-Friendly Communities initiative. They are also looking for projects that do not primarily cover salaries.
- Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, businesses, clubs and organizations not registered as 501(c)(3,) educational institutions, and individuals.
For more information, visit https://columbusaudubon.org/conservation-pages/conservation-grants/