Education Grants Application

How to Apply

The application process for our 2019 Education Grants Program is now closed. Please check back next spring to learn more about next year’s grant cycle. League education grants are available to schools, park cooperating associations, and other qualified nonprofits engaged in high quality and meaningful redwood education.

Program Goals

The League’s Education Grants Program funds projects that:

• Provide engaging, firsthand experiences of redwood forests for youth (pre-K — college); for example, through field trips, park interpretive programs, service projects, and after-school or family programs among the redwoods.
• Connect low-income youth who may not otherwise have the opportunity to visit the redwoods through culturally relevant projects including, but not limited to:
  » Projects that connect rural redwood region communities with the forest resource in their backyards.
  » Projects that connect urban communities with local, regional or distant redwoods.
• Encourage classroom teachers to teach about redwoods as a topic and use the redwood forest as a laboratory to master state content standards through curriculum development or continuing education opportunities.

Redwood education topics may include, but are not limited to: redwood forest characteristics, redwood ecology, associated watersheds, redwood forest-dependent species and redwood forest stewardship. Applicants may choose to focus their projects on either the coast redwoods or giant sequoias.

 

2019 Call for Applications

All League Education Grant projects must have a field component and serve pre-K through college youth, with priority given to those reaching low-income youth. A primary goal for the League is to provide engaging, firsthand experiences for youth and their families in the redwoods so they are exposed to the wonder of these remarkable forests.

All grants will be for a one-year cycle, and we will no longer be offering three-year grants.

EDUCATIONAL GRANT CATEGORIES

The League’s Education Grants Program will fund projects that fit into one of the following two categories:

1. Redwood Visit: Educational programs which provide a 1-day field trip experience in a redwood forest. Funds provided should go primarily towards transportation (see application form for more details). $1,500 award
2. Forest Immersion: Educational programs which provide 3-5 day field experiences in a redwood forest. (This includes a school spending multiple days in the forest or a nonprofit or an organization which brings multiple school groups to the forest for a single visit or overnight visit.) $5,000 award

 

Eligibility

We only accept applications from nonprofit organizations (including public agencies and schools) as described in 26 USC Section 170(b) (1) (A) [other than clauses (vii) and (viii)]. Individuals are not eligible to apply. Once your application has been approved you will be asked to provide proof of non-profit status.

 

2019-20 Grant Award Schedule

Applicants, please consider the following timeline when planning your project activities:

 

Materials Needed

To complete your application, you will need to submit the following materials. Please carefully read through the application and narrative as it has changed slightly from previous years.

• A completed application form in PDF format PDF | Word Doc
• One project narrative in PDF format Redwood Visit | Forest Immersion

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Apply Now

Please submit your application material in a single PDF to Deborah Zierten, Education and Interpretation Manager, at: [email protected]. For any questions you can also contact us at (415) 362-2352.

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Learn More

Questions? Please contact the Education and Interpretation Manager at [email protected] or (415) 362-2352.