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Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants 

Ten Grant Winners Announced

Ten nonprofit public lands “friends of” groups have been chosen to receive $1,000 Capacity Building Grants as part of the National Environmental Education Foundation's Public Lands Program. The Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants provide funding to strengthen the organizational effectiveness of these community-based nonprofits who serve public land sites in the United States.

Grants will assist the groups with strategic planning, branding, communications and marketing, volunteer management and improved fundraising. These projects will advance the organizations' ability to carry out their strategic goals and make them more sustainable.

Friends groups are invaluable to the public lands they serve.  While dedicated and passionate, they are often underfunded and understaffed.  The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) wants to unleash their potential and help strengthen these organizations to enable them to do more to connect their communities to the land.

PLP, a new program, is borne out of 16 years of experience working with public lands through National Public Lands Day (NPLD). Each year on NPLD, thousands of volunteers come out to care for our nation’s public lands.  Often it is a friends group organizing the event for a specific site.  The Public Lands Program will provide online training resources, networking opportunities between public lands managers and friends groups, and small grants to increase the capacity of friends groups to recruit volunteers and involve local communities.

Capacity Building Grant Winners:

Continental Trail Divide Alliance
Continental Divide National Scenic Trail
US Forest Service and National Park Service
Golden, Colo.
website: http://www.cdtrail.org/page.php


Friends of the Desert Mountains
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
Bureau of Land Management
Palm Desert, Calif.
website: http://www.desertmountains.org/


Friends of Fairsted, Inc.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
National Park Service
Brookline, Mass.
Website: http://friendsoffairsted.org/


Friends of Fort McHenry, Inc.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
National Park Service
Baltimore, Md.
website:  http://www.friendsoffortmchenry.org/


Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy
Olmsted Park System
Louisville Metro Parks Department
Louisville, Ky.
website: http://www.olmstedparks.org/


Nevada Outdoor School
Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
Bureau of Land Management
Winnemuca, Nev.
website:  http://nevadaoutdoorschool.org/


San Mateo Coast Natural History Association
San Mateo Coast Sector State Parks
California State Parks
Half Moon Bay, Calif.
website: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21905


Selway-Bitterroot Foundation
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
US Forest Service
Kamiah, Mont.
website: http://www.selwaybitterroot.org/


Wild South
Bankhead District of the USFS
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Double Springs, Ala.
website: http://www.wildsouth.org/


Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers
Wissahickon Valley Park
The Fairmount Park Commission
Philadelphia, Pa.
website: http://wissahickonrestorationvolunteers.org/

 

Read more about the capacity building grants

Toyota

These grants were made possible by a contribution by Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

Other Public Lands Program Grants  

Public Lands Program Roanoke Watershed Grants


Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants

  • Ten (10) small grants of $1,000
  • Deadline: December 1, 2009 

 

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