Grants and Funding Opportunities

Do you know any powerful or influential youth, teens, or young adults who are making lasting and substantial changes in their community? Youth Service America encourages you to nominate a powerful and influential change-maker for "The YSA List!"

Any student, teacher, class or school (K-12) is welcome to enter Project Earth's World Environment Day Contest. Share your environmental efforts on ProjectEarth.net and submit an environmental project or activity being taken to conserve resources and protect our environment. The submission deadline is June 5, 2012.

Project Earth is hosting a national Earth Day Contest for any U.S. K-12 student, teacher, class or school featuring environmental projects, activities and actions being taken to conserve resources and protect our environment. The deadline to enter your project is April 15, 2012.

Do you know a Young Eco-Hero? Has he/she been working to preserve the world around us? Teaching others how to protect the environment? Doing an environmental research project? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then you know a Young Eco-Hero.

The Brower Youth Awards is an annual national award recognizing six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and environmental justice advocacy.  The winners of the award receive a $3,000 cash prize, a trip to California for the award ceremony and wilderness camping trip, and ongoing access to resources and opportunities to further their w

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors outstanding young leaders aged 8 to 18 who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet. Each year, the Barron Prize selects ten winners nationwide. Nominations for the Prize should be made by adults who have solid knowledge of the nominee and his/her work, but who are not related to the nominee (e.g.

The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is a sustainability challenge in which students form teams, work with a teacher/mentor to identify an environmental issue in their community, research it, develop a plan, collect data, analyze that data, and share the results they've found so far. Teams may be made up of 2-3 students, each of whom is a U.S.

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and the National Science Teachers Association are pleased to announce the 19th Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers program. This year, 50 large grants of up to $10,000 each and 20-32 mini-grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded to K-12 teachers of science in the United States.

K-5 grade 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. With the Toshiba America Foundation grant, elementary teachers bring their best new teaching ideas to life.

Grant applications are due on October 1st each year.

Earth Day Network's National Civic Education Project gives teachers the structure and support to combine classroom civic and environmental education with hands-on learning experiences that provide an opportunity for students to remedy local environmental concerns.