FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Nature’s Narrative Grant (deadline: May 8, 2024)

Grant opportunity for K-8 teacher-leaders for the 2024-25 school year, offered by the CDE’s CREEC Network. Led by facilitators from county offices in San Mateo, Sacramento, Mendocino, and Shasta counties, this grant is designed to do three things:

• Enhance environmental education.

• Integrate language arts instruction with science & nature

• Provide support for climate science education

• Blend socio-emotional learning through nature into all aspects of instruction

The grant is open to education leaders interested in learning and disseminating this knowledge. These leaders include:

• Teachers or TOSAs in K-8 who lead professional learning for their school, conferences, etc. 

• Environmental education leaders from museums, nature centers, parks, etc., who can share their learning with other educators

• Expanded learning leaders. Often these are supervisors, not front-line instructors.

Please see the website for more information and the application for Nature’s Narrative.

CAL FIRE IRA Grants (Deadline: May 30, 2024)

CAL FIRE's Urban and Community Forestry (UCF) Grant Program has just released the 2024/2025 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Grant Guidelines. The application portal will be open soon and applications will be accepted until May 30, 2024. The funds are to be used to support disinvested, disadvantaged, and low-income urban communities in growing equitable access to trees and their benefits - including through green schoolyards! Click here to learn more.

Other grants to track:

• Adventure Pass Grant, Parks California and California State Parks
• Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• California Grant Portal - subscribe to receive notifications
• California Marine Protected Areas Outreach and Education Small Grants Program, Coastal Quest/Ocean Protection Council
• Career Pathways, Parks California
• Environmental Education Grant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental Justice Small Grant, California Environmental Protection Agency
• Explore the Coast Grant, State Coastal Conservancy
• Liberated Paths, Justice Outside
• Outdoor Equity Grant, California State Parks
• Routes to Parks, Parks California
• Youth Access to Nature Fund, Justice Outside
• Youth Community Access Grant, California Natural Resources Agency
• Whale Tail Grant, California Coastal Commission

Please contact info@aeoe.org if you are aware of additional funding opportunities to share with our community.