Outdoor Classrooms: Grants & funding

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Existing grant programs and funding opportunities in Virginia:

Virgina Naturally Classroom Grants
www.vanaturally.com/classroomgrants.html

Virginia Environmental Endowment
www.vee.org

Dominion Virginia Power
www.dom.com/about/education/grants/grants.jsp

Chesapeake Bay license plate
www.dcr.state.va.us/sw/bayfund.htm
http://dls.virginia.gov/cbrfac.htm

Virginia Chapter of the Wildlife Society Mini Grants
http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/vatws

Lowe's Supports Local Communities
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation
The Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation supports community-based, grassroots organizations in the local communities where Lowe's operates stores and distribution centers, including communities in all states except New Hampshire, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The Foundation supports K-12 public education including playground enhancements, landscaping and painting, and outdoor learning environments such as educational gardening programs; community improvement, including park and neighborhood beautification and clean-up and neighborhood revitalization; and vocational trade scholarships. Deadlines for the Fall 2007-2008 cycle are Mid-October 2007 and Mid-February 2008. Once 1500 applications are received per cycle, the application process will close.

The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program
The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other non-profit educational organizations for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. The grant recipient learning centers are those which most successfully reflect the Wild Ones mission to educate and share information about the benefits of using native plants in our landscape and to promote biodiversity and environmentally sound environmentally sound practices. Only through this knowledge, can we appreciate humankind's proper place in the web of life.

D.C. Schoolyard Greening (Local and regional grant opportunities)
The mission of the D.C. Schoolyard Greening Consortium is to increase and improve schoolyard green spaces to promote ecological literacy and environmental stewardship among students, teachers, parents and the surrounding community.

Seeds of Change
The Seed Donation Program gives seeds to organizations that promote education and sustainable living through organic gardening projects. Seeds of Change is committed to providing 100% certified organic, open-pollinated seeds of the highest quality including many heirloom, traditional, and unique Seeds of Change varieties.