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Supporting environmental education projects that enhance the public's awareness, knowledge, and skills to make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.
EPA Environmental Education Grants
The Environmental Education Grants Program provides financial
support for projects which design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental
education practices, methods or techniques. This program is authorized
under Section 6 of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990 (P.L.
101-619). Congress has appropriated approximately $11 million for this
grant program over the past four years (between $2.5 and $2.9 million
per year from FY 1992 through FY 1995). EPA Headquarters awards approximately
$1 million in grant funds per year and each of EPA's ten regional offices
award approximately $300,000 per year. The average regional grant is approximately
$5,000.
The purpose of the Environmental Education Grants Program is to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues, and to provide the public with the skills needed to make informed decisions and to take responsible actions. Environmental education enhances critical-thinking, problem-solving, and effective decision-making skills. It also teaches individuals to weigh various sides of an environmental issue to make informed and responsible decisions.
EPA strongly encourages applicants to demonstrate or disseminate existing environmental curricula rather than designing new curricula. Only environmental education projects will be funded, not projects that are solely designed to develop or disseminate environmental information. (Deadline to apply for 2003 grants: November 15, 2002.)
For assistance in writing grant proposals, see EPA's On-Line Grant Writing Tutorial. For more information on Region 3's Environmental Grants Program , call (215) 814-5737 or check out the information at the HQ EPA page.
Nationally, to receive a copy of 2002 solicitation please mail your request to:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Education Grants Program (FY 1999)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (MC1704)
Washington, D.C. 20460
EPA's Environmental Education Grants Solicitation Notice - 2002
EPA Region 3's Summary of Community Grant Programs
EPA's Green Communities Assistance Kit Financial Information
Environmental Education Grant Profiles
2008 | 2001 [PDF, 7pp, 33k, about pdf] |
2000 | 1999 |
1998
Other Grant-Related Links
Also see Sources
for Grant Help
listed
by the PA Center for Environmental Education and Tips
for Writing Successful Grants from EPA.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance: The CFDA Web Site is updated twice yearly at approximately
the same time as the printed Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is
published (June & December).
