Deadline: 28-Jan-22
Are you an educator with a project in mind that will connect students with the outdoors, enhance the schoolyard for wildlife habitat, and integrate nature into student learning in alignment with curricula? Grants from the New Hampshire Partnership for Schoolyard Action Grants program are available for schools and educational organizations with students from pre-kindergarten through grade twelve to help fund schoolyard nature-based projects.
The New Hampshire Partnership for Schoolyard Action Grants includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service New England Field Office, N.H. Project Learning Tree, the N.H. Fish and Game Department, and New Hampshire Audubon. The partnership was created to make it easier for school staff to apply for a grant to enhance the school yard. Now, a common grant application works for all four of the partner organizations and greatly simplifies the application process.
Examples of projects that have been funded by the partner organizations in the past include the establishment of pollinator gardens, creation of outdoor learning areas, installing solar-powered bird baths and replanting of school grounds with native plants that enhance wildlife habitat.
Funding Information
Grant Award Amounts: Grant awards can be up to $2,500.
Examples of Eligible Projects
- Developing a plan and/or lessons to integrate outdoor schoolyard studies into curricula.
- Teachers and students working with a landscape architect to design a schoolyard plan.
- Planting native trees, shrubs, vines or perennials to provide wildlife food or cover.
- Creating a rain garden with native plants for study of soils, and plant ecology Establishing pollinator gardens, especially for Monarchs.
- Supplies (beyond typical school supplies) needed to participate in a citizen science project such as Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Project Feederwatch, Birdsleuth, Yard Map, or New England Signs of the Seasons phenology project.
- Building ponds or other water sources such as birdbaths or fountains.
- Installing bird feeders and feeding stations connected to curricular studies.
- Construction of nature trails for use connected to curricular studies.
- Building small structures that support outdoor learning or provide outdoor classroom space.
Eligibility Criteria
New Hampshire schools and other education-based organizations that serve young children through-12th grade may apply.
For more information, visit New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
For more information, visit https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/education/grants.html