Do you have an idea for a
school/community native plant garden, a forest improvement project, a streamside
restoration plan, a recycling program, or energy conservation project for your
students? Need funds to implement it? Apply for a Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! grant! The deadline is September 30, 2015.
- Grants must be completed in one year
- Applicants must have attended a PLT workshop
- The proposed project must involve service-learning.
- The proposed project must demonstrate student voice.
- The proposed project must involve at least one community partner.
- The proposed project must secure at least 50% matched funds (in-kind acceptable).
GreenWorks! is the service-learning component of Project Learning Tree that engages educators, students, and their communities in “learning-by-doing” local environmental stewardship projects. Since 1992, AFF has distributed more than $1 million to fund more than 1,000 PLT GreenWorks! action projects in communities across the country.
“These grants help students take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to the real world,” said James McGirt, PLT manager of education programs. “Youth engage with the local community, and develop their critical thinking and leadership skills as they work to improve the environment.”
PLT’s GreenWorks! Guidebook offers practical ideas and pointers for getting a GreenWorks! project off and running.
