Scholarships

Deadline: Continuous Contact: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
2121 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park CA 94025
United States

The Environment Program makes grants to conserve the North American West and to tackle the problems of energy and climate change. The program pursues four broad goals designed to help protect the planet for generations to come:
1. Conserve the Western United States and Canada for wildlife and people
2. Slow global climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions
3. Ensure that the United States energy supply is clean and consumption is efficient
4. Address environmental problems that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area

The Environment Program pursues these goals by supporting public policy development and advocacy. It also engages influential groups that care about the environment but whose voices and concerns have not always been part of the traditional environmental movement, such as hunters, anglers, ranchers, Latinos, and Native Americans.

The Hewlett Foundation accepts unsolicited letters of inquiry for its Western Conservation Program and its Energy and Climate Program. There are no deadlines for submitting Letters of Inquiry. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

Only nonprofit organizations will be funded. The foundation does not fund individuals.

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Deadline: The first applications are due December 7th, 2011. Contact: James Boushka
530-752-5087
james.boushka@sodexo.com

UC Davis affiliated students, staff, faculty, and departments are eligible for up to $3,000 to research, develop, implement, and design solutions to campus sustainability challenges.

The Go Green competition is open to all undergraduate students, graduate students, professional students, faculty, and staff at UC Davis in all departments and disciplines.

Funding Amount
Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation will be competing for a total of $6,000, which will be allocated during two grant-funding cycles. The proposed award per project may have a range from $300 to $3,000.

Campus community members should check out the Go Green Grant Fund request for applications and grant guidelines at http://dining.ucdavis.edu/sus-green.html. The first applications are due December 7th, 2011.

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Deadline: November 30, 2011

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is pleased to announce the launch of a college scholarship program with a top prize of $5,000.

from CAPS:

The California Population Awareness (CAPA) Awards program has been created to increase awareness among college students of the state’s rapid population growth and to encourage college students to explore the sources and implications of continuing growth.

“The students in our colleges and universities are very important to how California evolves,” said Marilyn Brant Chandler DeYoung, CAPS Chairman of the Board. “They can and will influence the future of the state, the country and the world. With the CAPA Awards competition, CAPS hopes to engage students in the overpopulation discussion and challenge them to look at the benefits that a sustainable population would bring to California.”

To enter the CAPA Awards competition, California college students are asked to submit an original short video or radio spot, write an Op-Ed, or design a Facebook initiative or Twitter campaign that focuses on the causes of overpopulation in California and its effects on the environment, wildlife, quality of human life, and the benefits that a sustainable population would bring.

Available awards total $12,500. Additionally, the first 100 qualified entries will be entered in a random drawing for an iPad 2 (three will be given away).

More information about the awards program, including complete rules, is at http://www.capaawards.com/ .

Note: CAPS employees and members of CAPS Board of Directors, as well as vendors and agents for CAPS and their employees, along with immediate family (spouse, siblings and children) of all the aforementioned, are ineligible to participate.

For more information, click here.

The 12th Annual Brower Youth Award application deadline is FAST APPROACHING! All applications must be submitted by May 16, 2011 9:00 pm PST. That means, you’ve got about 2 weeks to put together a winning application to net a $3,000 cash prize, an all-expenses paid trip to San Francisco to speak at an inspirational award ceremony, media coverage and year-round support.

Are YOU an eco-activist between 13-22? Do you know an eco-activist? If so, get moving on that application! Tell us how you’ve helped build the green movement, in your city, your state, or your nation. Your application not only gets you in the running for the award, but can open up other doors.  In past years, we’ve helped top applicants get featured in books (like Girls Gone Green and Green My Parents) and on TV (like the Sundance Channel), as well as invites to speak at celebrated activist gatherings.

Our applications are now completely online. Visit www.thebyas.org to proceed with application. We’re here to answer questions and help you present your story.  If you’ve got any questions, email bya@earthisland.org or call Anisha Desai at 510-859-9144. And, if you know of an exceptional youth eco-activist, ages 13-22, please let them know about the awards and visit www.broweryouthawards.org/apply for more information!

FYI: The Brower Youth Awards team is hosting a bi-monthly webinar to familiarize applicants with the Brower Youth Awards and to also ensure that they are submitting the best application possible! We are holding optional informational webinars on the following dates & times:

Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 4:00PM PST
Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 1:00pm PST

*Please note that all webinar times are in Pacific Standard Time and will vary based on your time zone. Please plan accordingly!  To participate in our webinar, go to https://www.readytalk.com/ & dial 1-866-740-1260(Toll Free in the U.S. & Canada) during the listed times using the access code 8599141. If you have any technical questions, email us at bya@earthisland.org. We look forward to hosting you!

–
Bob Hollis

The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

Deadline: June 9, 2011

Contact: The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
2150 Third Avenue North
Suite 310
Anoka, MN
55303-2200
United States
Email: info@lindberghfoundation.org

Each year, the foundation provides grants to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs’ vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. The grants are intended to support work on a research or educational project that will contribute to a balance between technology and environmental preservation.

Applicants may indicate one or two of the following categories (in priority order) to which their project relates. Applying for more than one category will not increase an applicant’s chances of receiving funding. The purpose of selecting one or two categories is to help the foundation’s staff assign appropriate reviewers to evaluate each application.

The categories are:
1. Agriculture
2. Aviation/Aerospace

Under Conservation of Natural Resources:
3. Animal Resources
4. Plant Resources
5. Water Resources
6. General Conservation (including land, air, energy, etc.)

Under Education:
7. Humanities/Education
8. The Arts (Applicants seeking funding for projects that are limited to the creation of a particular work of art or performance art should not apply. The creation of art and public reaction to it does not adequately address the foundation’s concept of promoting a better balance between the advance of technology and preservation of the human/natural environment.)
9. Intercultural Communication
10. Exploration

Under Health:
11. Biomedical Research
12. Health and Population Sciences

1. Adaptive Technology (One grant given may be designated as a Jonathan Lindbergh Brown Grant in Adaptive Technology or Biomedical Research. To qualify for this grant designation, a project must seek to redress imbalance between individual human beings and their personal environments.)
2. Waste Minimization and Management
   Eligibility Citizens of all countries are eligible to apply. Applications must be submitted in the English language. The foundation welcomes candidates who may or may not be affiliated with an academic, nonprofit, or for-profit organization. Grants are awarded to individuals for research and educational programs, not to affiliated organizations for institutional programs. If an affiliated organization is indicated, a signature of an official is required. Candidates for grants are not required to hold any graduate or postgraduate academic degrees.

The primary individual actually doing the proposed work should be identified as the Principal Investigator (PI). (For administrative purposes, applicants should list one name only and indicate additional investigators under Personnel in the application.) As the foundation has no educational requirements for who may be a PI, students conducting research under the supervision of a professor should apply directly.