Captain Planet Foundation

Posted by on February 06, 2012

Captain Planet Foundation Offers Grants for Hands-On Environmental Education Activities
Deadline: May 31, 2012 and September 30, 2012

The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to promote and support high-quality educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through learning experiences that engage them in active hands-on projects to improve the environment in their schools and communities.

Grants are intended to serve as a means of bringing environment-based education to schools, and to inspire youth and communities to participate in community service through environmental stewardship activities. The foundation will fund unique and innovative projects that do not precisely match the grant guidelines but otherwise promote the foundation’s mission of hands-on environmental activities.

The foundation makes grants to United States-based schools and nonprofit environmental and educational organizations with annual operating budgets of less than $3 million.

Preferential consideration is given to requests seeking seed funding of $500 or less and to applicants who have secured at least 50 percent matching or in-kind funding for their projects. (Projects with matching funds or in-kind support are given priority because external funding is a good indicator of the potential for long-term sustainability of the activities.) The foundation will on occasion consider grants of up to $2,500.

Visit the CPF Web site for complete program guidelines and the application form.

http://captainplanetfoundation.org/default.aspx?pid=3&tab=apply