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Nature in Neighborhoods Conservation Education Grants Pre-Application data from the 2014 cycle AMOUNT ORGANIZATION NAME PROGRAM TITLE PROGRAM SUMMARY REQUESTED PARTNERSHIPS POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS LOCATION Arts and Technology (ArtTech) Stormwater Management and This program offers unique academic learning and $25,000 City of Wilsonville; Workforce Investment Council of Wilsonville High School Watershed Conservation career development opportunities for high school Clackamas County; Clackamas Career and Technical Leaders students to foster conservation leadership skills. Education Consortium The program blends career awareness and paid internship opportunities with a credit based course to support meaningful learning about low impact design that supports watershed health. Audubon Society of Portland Audubon Society of Portland’s TALON is a paid apprenticeship program that $100,000 David Douglas, Centennial, Sam Barlow, Parkrose, Region (ASoP) TALON Program (Teach, engages youth of color living in East Portland and Reynolds and Portland Public school districts; Native Advocate, Learn, Observe, West Gresham in professions in environmental American Youth & Family Association; Immigrant and Nurture) education, stewardship, conservation advocacy Refugee Community Organization; Oregon Zoo ZAP and wildlife care. The goal of TALON is to build program; Organizing People and Activating Leaders; leadership and diversity in the environmental Human Solutions; Hacienda; Leach Botanical Garden; community. ROSE Community Development Corporation; Explorador; Hacienda CDC Caldera The Geography of We: This project provides 50 underserved high school $15,000 Open Meadow; Madison High School; U.S. Forest Portland Humans, Wildlife and the students with yearlong environmental education Service; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; ODS; Aldo Leopold Habitats We Share that is focused on local wildlife and ecosystems. Foundation; Outdoor School; Portland Parks and Students will learn mapping techniques and Recreation; SOLVE; Nature Conservancy; Ecotrust participate in Caldera’s web-based Geography of We mapping project through scientific research, field studies, documentation activities and community engagement. The Center for Civic B Street Living Museum: A The B Street Living Museum (BLM) is a $100,000 Centro Cultural; Tom McCall Roots and Shoots Club; Forest Grove Engagement at Pacific Learning Center for permaculture demonstration site and support PACE; Forest Grove Community School university Sustainability Education center for sustainability education that engages participants in community building, ecological design practice, and environmental research to provide information and inspiration for the adoption of environmentally sensitive, sustainable living practices. Center for Diversity and the Environment 2042 The E42 EE Leadership Program will create a cadre $100,000 Environmental Education Association of Oregon; Region Environment Environmental Education (E42 of change agents that will build a more diverse, Coalition of Communities of Color EE) Leadership Program equitable and inclusive culture in the environmental movement while advancing equity and building more diverse leaders in the environmental education field. Page 1 of 15 Nature in Neighborhoods Conservation Education Grants Pre-Application data from the 2014 cycle AMOUNT ORGANIZATION NAME PROGRAM TITLE PROGRAM SUMMARY REQUESTED PARTNERSHIPS POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS LOCATION Centro Cultural of Washington STEAM (Science, Technology, STEAM is an after school/summer program that $100,000 Clean Water Services; Pacific University; Forest Grove Forest Grove, County Engineering, Arts, and provides educational supports for Latino youth School District Beaverton, Mathematics) who are struggling with core academic subjects. Hillsboro Centro seeks to enhance the environmental science component of STEAM through partnerships with Clean Water Services, Pacific University, and several school districts in Washington County. Clackamas River Basin Council Connecting People to Place in The Clackamas River Basin Council’s programming $24,699 Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife; SOLVE; Boys and Girls Club; Happy Learners Clackamas, the Clackamas Watershed follows a common theme – that of connecting Clackamas High School; West Linn High School; Rex Homeschoolers Damascus, people to place. Designed to engage communities Putnam High School; Sabin Schellenberg School; Lewis West Linn, in nature-based activities, our programs link & Clark Montesorri Charter School; Stash the Trash Portland people to the Clackamas watershed through Program; Chrysalis Farms; Abernethy Elementary educational and stewardship opportunities that School; Amigos emphasize the importance of watershed health and protection. Coalition of Communities of Building Environmental The project will 1) build the environmental $20,000 PSU Center to Advance Racial Equity; Verde Environmental educators to provide the Region Color (in partnership with Capacity in Communities of knowledge of organizations of color by facilitation for the trainings culturally-specific community Color: Knowledge, Research implementing an environmental education based organizations, Portland and Discourse training series; 2) produce community-specific State University Center to environmental indicators; and 3) provide a Advance Racial Equity, Verde community of color vision of conservation that and local environmental prioritizes environmental initiatives in educators) communities of color. Columbia Land Trust (fiscal Backyard Habitat Certification The Backyard Habitat Certification Program $25,000 4-County Cooperative Weed Management Association; Rockwood Neighborhood Association; Region sponsor) and Audobon Society Program – Portland, Lake provides technical assistance, incentives, West Willamette Restoration Partnership; Pacific Friends of Nadaka; Wilkes East of Portland Oswego, and new Gresham resources, and recognition to small lot property Northwest Urban Meadowscaping Project; West Neighborhood Association; Gresham area Expansion owners to restore native wildlife habitat and Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District; East Natural Resources and Sustainability manage stormwater in their yards. Nearly 1,900 Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District; City of Committee properties have enrolled in the program, currently Portland; OSU Master Gardeners; Oregon Tilth; Friends covering more than 350 acres of Portland and of Mount Tabor; Living Cully; Dharma Rain Zen Center; Lake Oswego. Friends of the Overlook Bluff; Sustainable Overlook; Friends of Marquam Nature Park; SW Watershed Resource Center; Friends of Baltimore Woods; The Green Neighborhoods Project; Green Lents; Mt. Hood Community College Project YESS; Multnomah County Garden Club; Boskey Dell Nursery; Echo Valley Nursery; Cornell Farms Nursery; One Green World Nursery; Backyard Bird Shop; Timber Press Page 2 of 15 Nature in Neighborhoods Conservation Education Grants Pre-Application data from the 2014 cycle AMOUNT ORGANIZATION NAME PROGRAM TITLE PROGRAM SUMMARY REQUESTED PARTNERSHIPS POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS LOCATION Columbia Slough Watershed Slough School Community The Slough School Community Engagement $66,960 Parent-Teacher Associations; City of Portland Bureau of Portland Council Engagement Project Project prepares the next generation of watershed Environmental Services; Portland Parks & Recreation; stewards through hands-on ecological Kenton Neighborhood Association; Portland programming for elementary through college Opportunities Industrialization Center; Multnomah students in North and Northeast Portland, North Youth Cooperative; Meek High School Gresham, and Fairview while also connecting citizens to their local natural areas through community-based stewardship projects. Columbia Slough Watershed Nadaka 2020 Conservation Provide multiculturalconservation education and $99,440 Portland Audubon Society; Outgrowing Hunger; St. Gresham Council (fiscal agent) Education and Stewardship stewardship programming including a natural Aidan's Church; City of Gresham; Friends of Nadaka Programming history ambassador/foot patrol program as part of a collaborative, 5-year operations, maintenance and programming plan at Nadaka Nature Park. Programming will serve youth, low-income residents, and people of color in Rockwood and throughout West Gresham. Department of Fisheries & “Ellie’s Tracks; Exploring the Funds will facilitate collaboration with metro $25,000 Rachel Carson Middle School; CREST; Portland Bureau Portland, Wildlife, Oregon State Ecology of a City” – A environmental educators and resource managers of Environmental Services; Portland Parks & Beaverton University children’s book and in creating an illustrated story and educational Recreation; Friends of Baltimore Woods; SOLVE; environmental curriculum materials about conserving urban habitats for 8 – Portland Audubon Society; Fowler Middle School; about metro Portland 12 year olds, and will supplement publication Xerces Society; Friends of Tryon Creek; OSU Press; costs. Partners will help generate ideas, review Oregon Science Teachers Association; Tualatin National drafts and collaborate in learning activities. Wildlife Refuge; Tryon Creek Ecology in Classrooms & Connecting Students to Nature “Connecting Students to Nature” provides hands- $98,350 Seven partner schools; Lents Springwater Habitat Portland, Outdoors (ECO) on ecology lessons and outdoor field experiences Restoration Project ; Portland Parks and Recreation; Clackamas for seven elementary schools