Melinda Grey Ardia Environmental Foundation
Focus: Curricula that empower and encourage students to become involved in solving
environmental and social problems as informed decision makers through the emphasis and application of basic ecological principles
Range: $1,000
Key Issues: To facilitate the development and implementation of holistic environmental
curricula that incorporate basic ecological principles and field environmental activities within a primary or secondary school setting.
Contact: http://www.mgaef.org/index.html#MissionStatement
Deadline: April 6

Captain Planet Foundation
Focus: To fund and support hands-on environmental projects for children and youths.
Range: $250-$2,500
Key Issues: To foster innovative programs that empower children and youth around the
world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. Through environmental education, we believe that children can achieve a better understanding and appreciation for the world in which they live.
Contact: http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/aboutUs.html
Deadline: Quarterly starting March 31

NEA/SHOPA Kids in Need Teacher Grants
Focus: To finance creative classroom projects.
Range: $100-$500
Key Issues: To engage students in the learning process by supporting our most creative
and important educational resource — our nation's teachers.
Contact: http://www.shopa.org/shopa_foundation/teacher_programs.php
Deadline: September 30

SSAR Grants in Herpetology
Focus: Herpetological education.
Range: $100-$500
Key Issues: Proposals may address an educational project or start up support for an
educational program in a zoo, museum, park, nature center, regional herpetological society, etc.
Contact: http://www.ssarherps.org/pages/GIH.php
Deadline: December 31

Utah Native Plant Society Grant-in-Aid
Focus: To provide funding for activities that increase, for example, knowledge or
educates the public with projects that further the mission and goals of the society.
Range: $1,000 max.
Key Issues: Must have matching funds from another program.
Contact: http://www.unps.org/index.html?PAGES/grantprogram.html
Deadline: Unknown

SLC Teacher Research Grant
Focus: Research grant to develop innovative curriculum for the classroom that can be replicated in other
classrooms.
Range: Unspecified (Summer proposals limited to $4,000)
Key Issues: Proposal should address the six SLC district performance results for each student.
Contact: http://www.slc.k12.ut.us/depts/comminv/guidelines.html
Deadline: Committee meets four times throughout year.

Utah Credit Union Education Foundation Mini, School and Major Project Grants
Focus: Eligible teachers are asked to submit a grant application for their specific needs. These needs can be as
simple as paper supplies or much more involved projects..
Range: $50-$1,000 (Mini), $500-$5,000 (School), $5,000+ (Major Project)
Key Issues: Project must meet a need and justify the amount of funding requested. Projects must directly involve
and benefit students. No field trips.
Contact: http://www.ulcu.com/ucuef/granttypes.asp
Deadline: Last day of each month (Mini), last day of each quarter starting June 30 (School), last day of each
quarter starting June 30 (Major Project).

NEA Innovation Grants
Focus: Collaborative efforts by two or more colleagues to develop and implement creative project-based learning
that results in high student achievement.
Range: $5,000
Key Issues The proposed work should engage students in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen their
knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students’ habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection. Break-the-mold ideas that focus on closing the achievement gap for underserved students are particularly encouraged.
Contact: http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/grantguides.htm
Deadline: February 1, June 1

Pacificorp Foundation for Learning (Utah Power)
Focus: Independent foundation advancing individual and community aspirations through
learning.
Range: Most between $2,000-5,000 (max $10,000)
Key Issues: To foster strategic sustainable learning initiatives that serve the best
aspirations of individuals, organizations and communities, and that enhance and develop their capabilities to address significant challenges and opportunities
Contact: http://www.pacificorpfoundation.org/index.htm
Deadline: March 15

Toyota TAPESTRY grants for teachers
Focus: To recognize outstanding science teachers and give students hands-on exposure to
science at an early age. To inspire young people to pursue careers in the sciences including teaching. Proposals should demonstrate creativity, involve risk-taking, possess a visionary quality, and model a novel way of presenting science
Range: $10,000 for regular grants, $2,500 for mini grants
Key Issues: Efficient use of natural resources and protection of the environment, relating
the laws, principles, and concepts of science to phenomena and events relevant to students’ lives, literacy skills in the context of science teaching and learning, solving a real problem with a project that has community linkage.
Contact: http://www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry/index.htm
Deadline: January 19

NFW/EPA Five-Star Restoration Matching Grants Program
Focus: To support community-based wetland, riparian, and coastal habitat restoration
projects that build diverse partnerships and foster local natural resource stewardship through education, outreach and training activities.
Range: $5,000-$20,000
Key Issues: Must include a strong on-the-ground wetland, riparian, or coastal habitat
restoration component and should also include training, education, outreach, monitoring, and community stewardship components. Projects involving only research, monitoring, or planning are not eligible for funding.
Contact: http://www.nfwf.org/programs/5star-rfp.cfm
Deadline: March 10

NFW Nature of Learning Grants Program
Focus: Use National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms to promote a greater
understanding of local conservation issues. Encourage an interdisciplinary approach to learning that seeks to enhance student academic achievement.
Range: $5,000 max.
Key Issues: Programs must promote an in-depth understanding of local conservation
issues, improve scientific literacy, and conform to appropriate academic standards of learning. Please note that programs whose primary purpose is simply to provide a field trip experience to a local Refuge without a significant classroom learning component are not likely to be competitive. Involve a partnership among local schools, community groups, natural resource professionals and local businesses.
Contact: http://www.fws.gov/refuges/education/natureOfLearning/index.html
Deadline: June 15

Westinghouse Electric Company Charitable Program
Focus: Elementary, secondary, and high school educational programs that emphasize
math and science.
Range: $5,000 max.
Key Issues: Has funded projects in Salt Lake City
Contact: http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/E2e.asp
Deadline: Continuous

RGK Foundation Grants
Focus: Programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading).
Range: $5,000-$25,000
Key Issues: Example of previous project: Support for BioEd Online, a web-based resource for high school
science teachers.
Contact: http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.php#programs
Deadline: March 3, June 2, October 6

National Geographic/Ford Radical Renovation Contest
Focus: To implement improvements that are environmentally responsible and/or that
benefit the environment.
Range: $100,000
Key Issues: Encouraging environmentally responsibility in schools and students.
Contact: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/gogreen/ford/index.html
     Deadline: April 7

EPA Environmental Education Grants Program
Focus: To support environmental education projects that promote environmental
stewardship and help develop aware and responsible students, teachers, and citizens.
Range: $10,000-$15,000 typical, $50,000 max.
Key Issues: Implementing environmental education projects that improve environmental
behavior through non-regulatory means, raise the public's awareness of actions it can take to prevent pollution, and promote environmental stewardship through focus on a particular environmental issue. Non-federal matching funds of at least 25% of the total cost of the grant project are required.
Contact: http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants_sol2006.html
Deadline: November 23

Kodak American Greenway Award
Focus: To stimulate the planning and design of greenways in communities throughout
America.
Range: $500-$1,500 ($2500 max.)
Key Issues: Grants awarded based on importance of the project to local greenway
development efforts, Demonstrated community support for the project, extent to which the grant will result in matching funds or other support from public or private sources, likelihood of tangible results, capacity of the organization to complete the project.
Contact: http://www.conservationfund.org/?article=2372
Deadline: June 1

Project WILD Schoolyard NatureScaping Grant
Focus: To provide wildlife-based conservation and environmental education that fosters
responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources.
Range: Unknown (~ $500)
Key Issues: Project must benefit wildlife while encouraging responsibility towards
wildlife in students. Applicant must attend a Project WILD workshop and become a member.
Contact: http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/projectwild/
Deadline: March 21

Home Depot Youth Garden Grants
Focus: Life lessons from working in gardens and habitats.
Range: $250-$500
Key Issues: Educational focus and/or curricular ties; nutrition or plant-to-food
connections; environmental awareness/education; entrepreneurship; and social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service-learning.
Contact: http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp
Deadline: November 1

Lowe’s Outdoor Classroom Grant Program
Focus: To provide outdoor, hands-on science education to students in grades K-12 and
assist schools in enhancing their core curriculum in all subjects.
Range: $2,000 max in most cases.
Key Issues: Provide schools with additional resources to improve their science
curriculum by engaging students in hands-on experiences outside the traditional classroom.
Contact: www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=AboutLowes/outdoor/apply1.html
Deadline: Continuous

Utah Museum of Natural History
Focus: Docent-guided tours.
Range: Free with advance reservation.
Key Issues: Worksheets, teacher keys and lesson plans available.
Contact: http://www.umnh.utah.edu/museum/PlanVisit/schoolGroupVisits.html
Deadline: Advance reservation required.
Procedures For Seeking Grant Funding (Salt Lake District Education Foundation) http://www.slc.k12.ut.us/depts/comminv/seekfund.html

1.    The Foundation should be notified if you are seeking funds from local or national foundations. The foundation you seek funds from will require a 501(c)(3) tax ID letter. We will provide this letter for you. We are the official organization empowered by the district to receive funds should you be awarded a grant. In the application you should list the Salt Lake Education Foundation as the organization requesting the grant along with the project name. Example: Salt Lake Education Foundation/West High School Thumb Dancing. If you receive a check written to your school name only, ask permission of the donor to add SLEF, or endorse the check and write “Pay to the Salt Lake Education Foundation.”
2.    The principal of your school should also be notified of your request for funding, along with any related school department heads who will in turn notify the appropriate district administrator(s). Letters of endorsement from these individuals should be a part of your grant.
3.    If the grant is a matching grant, you will be responsible for determining and securing how the match will be met.
4.    The attached form must be submitted to the Salt Lake Education Foundation when applying for a grant.
5.    When accessing your funds, you will need to use the forms provided by the foundation and should be located in your school’s office with the secretary. Any questions can be directed to the Salt Lake Education Foundation at 578-8346.