Approved Grants
Spring 2008

Adelante Mujeres
Forest Grove $1,000
To enhance respect and awareness of the environment for Latino children and their parents through the development of curriculum including classroom lessons, field trips, hands-on components and a school garden

Alder Creek Children's Forest
Canyonville $25,000
For a three-year project to build local capacity of the Oregon Explorer program, engaging 5th and 6th grade students in field, classroom and computer lab activities

Coast Range Natural Resources Education Organization
Albany $9,800
To support the Forest Camp Scholarship Fund, a one-week outdoor school program

Columbia Slough Watershed Council
Portland $28,000
For the Slough School Education Program, engaging K-12 students throughout the watershed in science education and service-learning projects to raise awareness of the watershed

Corvallis Environmental Center
Corvallis $9,660
To expand the Avery Nature House Center's early childhood education programs, including preschool classes, emphasizing parent involvement with exploration of local natural areas

Environmental Leadership Program University of Oregon
Eugene $25,000
For the Environmental Education Initiative: training teachers, mentoring youth, and promoting stewardship through service-learning

G.A.P.S. Foundation
Hillsboro $35,000
For Terra Nova High School in support of the Terra Nova Conservation Corps/Community Farm, serving 80-120 students each year

Girl Scouts of Winema Council
Medford $7,000
To train 20 students to work with Klamath Outdoor Science School

Great Basin Society
Princeton $5,000
To support the first phase of a program to improve facilities at Malheur Field Station

Growing Gardens
Portland $11,000
For one year of the Youth Grow School Garden Coordinator Certificate Program, a three year project to develop and implement a certification program to train volunteers and teachers in sustainable garden-based education for elementary school children

Hood River Valley Residents Committee
Hood River $6,600
For the Hood River Sustainable Lands Outreach Project, for field trips and curriculum focusing on protecting open space

Housing Development Corporation of Northwest Oregon
Hillsboro $16,000
Toward a collaborative environmental education program with Audubon Society of Portland

Institute for Applied Ecology
Corvallis $15,000
For the RESTORE Oregon Schoolyard Restoration Program, working with local schools to restore native ecosystems on school grounds so they may be used as outdoor classrooms

Mary’s Peak Resource Center
Philomath $1,000
To help secure a wetland site within walking and biking distance to Philomath schools so students will have the opportunity to learn about wetlands, streams, forest and wildlife

Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council
Lowell $28,000
To expand the Watershed Rangers curriculum to grades 3-6 at all three elementary schools within the watershed

Mount Pisgah Arboretum
Eugene $7,060
For Discovery Tours, an outdoor education program for 3,000 K-5 students in Lane County

Nature Conservancy in Oregon
Portland $33,248
To fund year two of an ongoing three-year project to increase on-the-ground conservation capacity and volunteer base

Nearby Nature
Eugene $20,000
To turn the Alton Baker Park facility into an interactive Learnscape that would serve as a model for sustainable living and as an outdoor classroom for over 2,000 children and adults every year

©Photos courtesy of Todd Sargent.

Northwest Youth Corps
Eugene $21,485
For year one of the Healthy Food, Healthy Kids Project, educating 200+ Lane County middle and high school students on experimental gardening and organic farming

NW Documentary Arts & Media
Portland $5,000
To create a "Documentary Explorer" camp session for high school students

Oregon Paleo Lands Institute
Fossil $11,500
For SAGE: Science, Art, & Geologic Exploration and Experience, engaging 50 rural high school students and 200 students across Oregon to develop exhibits about past and present landscapes for OPLI’s Field Center

Oregon Trout
Portland $15,000
For the Corvallis Outdoor School, for a watershed education collaboration between the Corvallis School District and the Healthy Waters Institute

Oregon Zoo Foundation
Portland $10,000
For the Urban Nature Overnights program, working with underserved urban youth ages 8-19, to introduce 400 youth and 10 teen mentors to summer camping trips

Portland Parks and Recreation
Portland $10,000
To develop Flying Wild, offering workshops to 200 Portland teachers focusing on migratory bird curriculum

Portland YouthBuilders
Portland $20,000
For the Green Building project, giving alternative high school students environmental education and vocational training in green construction techniques, culminating in the construction of three green-built homes

Santiam Canyon School District
Mill City $15,000
For Phase I of the Living and Learning Together Outdoor Classroom at Gates Elementary, including restoration of the natural trail that is on school grounds, building an amphitheatre, and creating varied native habitats, a garden and a weather station

Siskiyou Field Institute
Selma $11,050
To expand programs at Deer Creek Center for Field Research and Education by piloting outdoor school

SOLV
Hillsboro $25,000
To strengthen and expand the Down By The Riverside Education Program which increases student participation in the restoration and stewardship of Oregon's watersheds

South Santiam Watershed Council
Sweet Home $20,000
For the STEWARDS (STudents Engaged in Watershed And Resource Discovery Sessions) Program, to introduce watershed and natural resource education into school district curriculum, initiate a Junior Watershed Council and hold an annual outdoor school

Tryon Life Community Farm
Portland $6,500
To increase the capacity of the Hands-On Sustainability Program by creating an indoor classroom, increasing pre-field trip in-class activities, and making youth friendly educational kiosks

Willamette Farm and Food Coalition
Eugene $10,000
For the Farm to School Program ($5,000) and School Garden Project ($5,000)

Xerces Society
Portland $11,000
To educate children, parents, and teachers about pollinator conservation while restoring habitat and greening school grounds

Total:  $474,903