Events, Grants, Contests & Awards

JULY 30, 2010
GRANT: NEA's Green Across America
Description: NEA's Green Across America Grants provide $50,000 in grants for teachers to engage and inspire K-12 students to increase sustainable, earth-friendly behavior in their neighborhoods and communities. Grants of up to $1,000 are available to help you implement your innovative education program, activity, lesson or event to excite students about going green, caring for the earth and creating a sustainable future.
Award: Up to $1,000
Entry Deadline: July 30, 2010
Apply: https://www.neamb.com/home/4720.htm
More Info/Contact: http://www.neamb.com/green
Note: If you wish to prepare your application responses before beginning the online application, download a Grant Application Worksheet at http://www.neamb.com/green. Worksheet contains all  application questions to help you plan and write your responses. Only online applications will be accepted.

SUMMER-FALL, 2010
EVENT: HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA)
Location: Various Locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Description: HOBA works with local nonprofits, schools and parks to identify high-impact, group-based volunteer projects. Projects meet ongoing needs of organizations or their clients, or they may be one-time, large-scale transformations of facilities or green spaces. HOBA recruits volunteers to get the job done and matches each project with a trained Project Leader to ensure that both the community partner and the volunteers are satisfied with the work.
Cost: FREE
Register: http://www.handsonbayarea.org/AboutUs/index.php/Become_a_Partner/nonprofit_partnership.html
More Info/Contact: 415-541-9616, donald@hoba.org


AUGUST 1, 2010
GRANT: Toshiba America Foundation Classroom Innovators Grants
Description: Grades K-5 teachers are invited to use Toshiba America Foundation's short application form to describe a set of lessons or a hands-on project they would like to introduce in their own classrooms. Grants of up to $1,000 for project-based learning in science and mathematics. Grade 6-12 applications for $5,000 or less are accepted on a rolling basis, throughout the calendar year. Grants requests of more than $5,000 are reviewed twice a year. Applications for grants of more than $5,000 are due August 2, 2010.
Award: Grades K-5, Up to $1,000; Grades 6-12, varying amounts
Application Deadline: August 1, 2010
Apply: Grades K-5, http://www.toshiba.com/taf/k5_apply.jsp.  Grades 6-12, http://www.toshiba.com/taf/612_apply.jsp
More Info/Contact: http://www.toshiba.com/taf/index.jsp
Note: Applications for grants of more than $5,000 are due August 2, 2010.

AUGUST 7, 2010
GRANT: 350.org Funds For 10/10/10 Climate Action Projects
Description: 350.org has partnered with Global Green Grants to give microgrants to local climate action projects all over the world. Many will culminate on October 10, 2010 (10/10/10). 350.org aims for 10/10/10 to be the biggest day of practical action to cut carbon that the world has ever seen. From installing solar panels to planting trees to organizing community bike rides, there are endless ways to get involved. 1% For the Planet is also engaging its network of 1,350 business members to help with and contribute to these projects. You can organize a project, apply for funding, and vote on the final recipients.
Award: $1,000
Application Deadline: August 7, 2010
Apply: http://northamericanfund.350.org/
More Info/Contact: FAQ's, fund@350.org


AUGUST 16-18, 2010
EVENT: Sustainability Education: Connecting Art, Science, and Design
Location: David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Description: Three-day seminar examines the intersection of art, science, and design. Art and science are powerful, complementary means of visualizing and  communicating an understanding of nature. Seminar will explore a range of approaches and techniques for improving science education by combining art and science. Participants will explore design as a form of critical thinking and investigate strategies for applying bio-inspired design to student projects.
Cost: $450 for 3 days, including breakfast and lunch. Full and partial scholarships are available for California school teachers.
Register: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/events/sustainability-education-connecting-art-science-and-design
More Info/Contact: seminars@ecoliteracy.org

SEPTEMBER 24-25, 2010
EVENT: Growing Greener School Grounds Conference
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: The 4th Growing Greener School Grounds Conference will bring together over 300 K-12 teachers and community members from the Bay Area and beyond to learn more about creating and sustaining vibrant outdoor learning environments. 

The conference will feature 18 workshops focusing on topics like the sun as a teaching resource; building planting beds; creating colorful mosaics; installing irrigation, and more. Many workshops will cover how to connect the outdoor classroom to education content standards at all grade levels.
Cost: $35-$125.
Register: http://sfgreenschools.org/conference/conference-registration/
More Info/Contact: Rachel Pringle,
 Programs Manager
, The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
, (415) 355-6979, Ext. 1566, www.sfgreenschools.org


OCTOBER 2, 2010
EVENT: Be the Change Day

Description: HandsOn Bay Area announces "Be the Change Day 2010." 1000 volunteers will step forward to be the change they seek in their community. At 18 project sites in the Bay Area, volunteers will renovate public schools, revitalize our local parks, and lend a hand to the many low-income and homeless families.
Location: 18 project sites in the Bay Area, CA
Cost: FREE
Register: Registration begins July 15, 2010
More Info/Contact: http://bethechangeday.org/groups/index.php

OCTOBER 5, 2010
EVENT: Jack Johnson To the Sea Concert in Berkeley
Description: The Green Schools Initiative is thrilled to have been chosen as a non-profit partner in Jack Johnson's 2010 To the Sea concert tour. We're teaming up with Johnson's Ohana Foundation and "All at Once", a social action network connecting nonprofits with people who want to be active in their local and world community. All at Once comes alive at every Jack Johnson concert in the "Village Green," a collection of interactive booths where concert-goers can get educated, get inspired, and connect face-to-face with the Green Schools Initiative and other non-profits. The Foundation donates $500 to each non-profit partner, along with 10 free concert tickets that we will raffle to our supporters to help us raise needed funds. The Foundation will also match every dollar donated to the Green Schools Initiative at the concert or online through October 15, up to $2,500! In addition to great music, Johnson generates a lot of fun, good will, and environmental awareness. Be a part of it!

Location: Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA
Cost: FREE to Green Schools Initiative Raffle Winners; Tickets: $59.50
More Info/Contact: http://jackjohnsonmusic.com/tour

OCTOBER 10, 2010 (10/10/10)
EVENT: 350.org Global Work Party for Climate Action
Description: On 10/10/10, thousands of communities will come together to celebrate climate solutions at the "Global Work Party." These projects will raise awareness, promote renewable energy, and demonstrate that another world is possible. From installing solar panels to planting trees to organizing community bike rides, there are endless ways to get involved. With your help, 10/10/10 is going to be the biggest day of practical action to cut carbon that the world has ever seen.
Location: Worldwide
Cost: FREE
Register: http://northamericanfund.350.org/projects/new
More Info/Contact: fund@350.org, http://www.350.org/funds, FAQ's


OCTOBER 24-26, 2010
EVENT: Green Schools National Conference: Growing Green Schools Across America
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Description: Developing Healthy and Environmentally Friendly Schools
Cost: Early Bird Registration Rates – Through July 31, 2010. School/Government/Non-Profit Rates: Individual - $280, Groups of 4 or more - $240/person, Teacher/Parent/University Student  - $215, One Day Pass  - $150
Register: http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/register_now.htm
More Info/Contact: http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/index.htm, 1-800-280-6218, greeninfo@nationalgreenschools.org

DECEMBER 8-10, 2010
EVENT: Green California Schools Summit
Location: Pasadena, CA
More Info/Contact: http://www.green-technology.org/gcschools/

NO DEADLINE/ONGOING
GRANT: Do Something Grant
Description: The Do Something Grant is intended to motivate and support positive community action by middle school and high school youth. They make weekly grants of $500 to youth to help them establish or grow existing sustainable community action projects, programs or organizations. Grants are made on an ongoing basis. Youth will be notified 2-3 months after submitting an application.
Award: $500
More Info/Contact: http://www.dosomething.org/grants

NO DEADLINE/ONGOING
GRANT: Teacher Mini-Grants from the Watershed Project
Description: The Teacher Action Grants (TAG) program has distributed almost $380,000 to educators who have taken the Kids in Creeks, Kids in Gardens, and Watching out Watersheds workshops. By providing seed money to cover direct expenses for classroom-based environmental studies, gardening, and restoration projects, Teacher Action Grants have involved tens of thousands of students in local watershed-based projects, and increased awareness about natural resources in multiple counties throughout the Bay Area.
Award: Up to $2,000
More Info/Contact:  Adam Hale, (510) 665-3539 or http://www.thewatershedproject.org/tag.html