Deadline: 2 October 2018
The Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation (MGAEF) is seeking proposals from organizations and schools across the globe for its Environmental Curricula grants to contribute the development, implementation and/or field testing of environmental curricula.
The mission of this grant program is to support educators in developing and implementing holistic environmental curricula that:
- Integrate field activities and classroom teaching, and
- Incorporate basic ecological principles and problem solving.
Melinda Gray Ardia was a biologist, an environmental activist, and a middle school science teacher in Newark, NY. She died in an automobile accident in January 1996. Melinda’s dedication, creativity and enthusiasm inspired her family and colleagues to create the Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation to continue her work.
Goals
- To empower and encourage students to become involved in solving environmental and social problems
- To promote thoughtful and appropriate analysis and understanding of the natural world
- To train students as informed decision makers through the emphasis and application of basic ecological principles.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any organization is eligible to apply, including schools, non-profits, governmental agencies and others.
- The only criterion is that they are required to provide funds to an organization, not to an individual. If applicant are self-employed, applicant need to find a sponsoring organization.
- They fund organizations across the globe, for example in Tanzania, Kenya, Guatemala, Chile and Bangladesh.
How to Apply
- A single page “PRE-PROPOSAL” should be submitted via a google form.
- The pre-proposal must not exceed one page.
- It is strongly preferred that applicant submit the proposal as a PDF.
- A subset of these proposals will be selected to submit a “FULL PROPOSAL”
- Applicants should only submit a full proposal if they receive a request to do so based on their pre-proposal.
For more information, please visit Environmental Curricula Grants.