The 2025 Environmental Training Grant Spherical, program managed by the Pennsylvania Division of Environmental Safety, opened on August 9, 2024.
This system will fund the event of modern formal and non-formal environmental training tasks that: 1) Tackle grant program priorities; 2) Present alternatives to broaden the general public’s understanding of Pennsylvania’s environmental points; and three) Develop abilities required to make knowledgeable choices and take accountable motion on behalf of the atmosphere.
Program Priorities
Tasks should deal with a number of program priorities: Water, Local weather Change, and Environmental Justice.
- Water – Education schemes selling efficient methods to cut back non-point supply and supply water air pollution to enhance water high quality.
- Local weather Change – Training tasks that promote sensible options for lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions and the unfavourable impacts of local weather change together with floods, modifications to groundwater, pests, illness, agricultural disruptions, and potential threats to human well being.
- Environmental Justice – Education schemes designed to interact audiences (youth and/or adults) residing and/or working inside Environmental Justice (EJ) areas. Use the DEP PennEnviroScreen to confirm an viewers is situated inside an Environmental Justice space.
Grant Award Quantities
Funding is out there for non-formal training (tasks outdoors of the formal, PreK-12 faculty/increased training setting) or Formal training (tasks built-in into the formal, PreK-12 faculty/increased training curriculums). Two kinds of awards can be found:
- Mini Grants – of as much as $5,000 could also be awarded for native (faculty, county, municipality or different outlined space) environmental training tasks. Mini grants are strongly inspired, however not required, to kind undertaking partnerships and embody a undertaking match (Money or In-Sort).
- Normal Grants (Degree I) – From $5,001 as much as $30,000 could also be awarded for implementation of large-scale, regional and/or statewide environmental training tasks.
- Normal Grants (Degree II) – From $30,001 to $65,000 could also be awarded for non-formal environmental education schemes designed to extensively* have interaction academics and youth on the county, state and nationwide ranges. (*Academics and college students from at the least 60 Pennsylvania counties should instantly take part within the undertaking). Moreover, the undertaking should reveal that at the least 30% of program individuals are group members of an Environmental Justice Space.
Utility Course of
Purposes, together with a written proposal and required paperwork, should be submitted electronically via the Keystone Login. (First-time customers might want to register.)
Purposes should embody the next: 1) Venture Proposal; 2) Scope of Work; 3) Detailed Funds Sheet; and 4) Letter(s) of Dedication. Purposes that fail to offer all required paperwork will probably be thought of incomplete and ineligible for EE Grant Program funding. Utility Deadline: November 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
Incomplete functions and/or these submitted previous to the opening date or after the deadline won’t be thought of.
Useful Sources
Attend the Stay EE Grants Program Webinar on October 10 to be taught extra. REGISTER by September 30, 2024.
Normal questions in regards to the Environmental Training Grants Program could also be directed to: [email protected]
