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Indiana Thriving Schools Challenge School Garden Micro-Grants This spring we are awarding 21 schools in Indianapolis with micro-grants up to $750. We are also providing in-person programming support to revive established gardens and get new ones up and running.
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LOCATION : Riverside stretch of Indianapolis’ Central Canal Indiana Thriving Schools is a program of Earth Charter Indiana that supports schools and students working toward a peaceful, just, sustainable future, guided by the principles of the Earth Charter .
The Indiana Thriving Schools Challenge is a project based learning grant program for Indiana K-12 schools, with precedence given to schools in Marion County and underserved rural communities. Project funding is available to schools in need of financial support, maximizing the opportunity for all schools in our community to participate in tackling sustainability.
Selected schools will be eligible for funding to implement student-led sustainability projects. Projects must be within the 3 Pillars of the ITSC program: School Gardens; Energy & Waste Reduction; Climate & Sustainability Curriculum Creation. Examples include: gardens, composting, zero waste cafeterias, LED conversions, recycling programs and more.
Priority consideration will be given to: projects emphasizing circular economy and civic engagement; schools within historically underserved communities based on the percentage of students receiving Free and Reduced Meal assistance, demographics of the student body, median household income, proximity to grocery stores and more.
All schools will be considered for grant funding, priority is given to ensure funding is dispersed through an equitable lens. All schools must have students involved with ideation and implementation, generally known as a Green Team, but can also be but not limited to an after-school garden club, individual classroom, entire grade or entire school. Youth involvement is mandatory.
2023/24 ITSC Cohort William McKinley 39’s Green Team 2023/24 ITSC cohort Lakeside Elementary’s Green Team 2025 Indiana Thriving Schools Challenge Annual Report The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council ( USGBC ) has announced several top schools, school districts, lawmakers and others as recipients of the 2024 Best of Green Schools Awards, an annual recognition in collaboration with the Green Schools National Network.
Earth Charter Indiana’s Director of Engagement, Tatjana Rebelle , was honored with an Ambassador award for their role in empowering K-12 schools to adopt dynamic sustainability practices in Indiana through numerous funding initiatives. Other recipients include Boston Public Schools, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N. J.)
and Amanda Talantis, a school teacher in Gulf Shores, Ala. The full list of awardees and the rationale for their selection can be found here. In 2019 Earth Charter Indiana and the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability partnered to initiate the Indianapolis Thriving School Challenge.
This program sprang from the city of Indianapolis's THRIVE Program to create more sustainable and resilient communities. Initially, the ITSC program not only distributed funding but certifications for schools starting and continuing to lead the charge in sustainability projects throughout Indianapolis. ” These projects represent the talent and ambition of a young generation working to create a safer, healthier, better world.
We are taking your example as inspiration. ” — mayor joe hogsett 2021 indiana thriving schools challenge celebration Past ITSC cohort Green Team proudly showing off their recycling efforts. ITSC cohort Holy Angels student with ITSC decal beside their indoor garden tower.
Education in sustainability engages children and young adults around important topics like environmental stewardship, social responsibility, waste reduction, circular economy, systems thinking, place- and problem-based learning, and conservation of resources. Creating new projects will provide students, educators, and parents alike with hands-on project implementation experience.
Through project-based learning, students will exercise critical thinking, creativity, and communication skills in the context of creating authentic, meaningful projects. These skills and knowledge will be crucial to the development of innovative solutions to the challenges of the 21st century.
Since 2019 the Indiana Thriving Schools Challenge has provided: K-12 Indiana Schools grants Students impacted by projects Grant funding and stipends for educators Created in 2001 by John Gibson and Jerry King, Earth Charter Indiana is inspired by the Earth Charter declaration at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2000.
The Earth Charter is a proclamation of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the twenty-first century. ECI was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation (501C3) in 2004. Earth Charter Indiana is the only U.S. chapter of the Earth Charter and has a fraternal relationship with Earth Charter International .
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Indiana K-12 schools; priority given to Marion County and underserved rural communities. Youth involvement is mandatory. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Up to $750 for 2024-2025 school garden micro-grants; historically up to $5,000 for projects Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.