Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture

Good Afternoon!

I am very pleased to announce that the 2008-2009 applications for the Kids Growing Food and Bluebird mini grants are now available on our website (www.nyaged.org/aitc).  The deadline for both of these grants is Friday November 28th, 2008 and recipients will be announced by the end of January.

We are also working on completing the applications for the NEW  Kids Growing Food II: Continuation Grant, which will be available to educators who have previously received a KGF mini grant and the AITC Teacher of the Year Application.  We hope to have these applications up on the site by early October.  I will make sure to send out an announcement when they become available.

Please pass this announcement along, we are extremely excited to add to our list of grant recipients and welcome all applications!

If you have any questions regarding the grant process please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Sincerely,
–

Heather Davis

Interim Coordinator

NY Ag in the Classroom

106 Kennedy Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

(p) 607-255-9253

(f) 607-255-7905

hed24@cornell.edu

Deadline: October 31, 2008
Project Learning Tree® (PLT) awarded 24 GreenWorks! grants to schools and organizations across the country to involve students in community-based environmental projects. GreenWorks! is PLT’s service-learning program that engages PLT educators and their students with their local community in “learning-by-doing” neighborhood improvement projects. Since 1992, PLT has distributed over $565,000 to fund 810 grant projects in communities across the country. Proposals for the Fall 2008 cycle of grants are due on October 31, 2008. Grants up to $5,000 are available.

http://eelink.net/cgi-bin/ee-link/newclick/8913560

Love Your Veggies grant program is awarding $15,000 grants to 10 elementary schools across the country. Applications are now available online at  www.LoveYourVeggiesGrants.org through the November 7 deadline!

Grant awards will be based on proposals that demonstrate need, sustainability, innovation and potential for community involvement. Funding must be spent on any of the following:

• Fresh produce (vegetables and fruits)
• A vegetable station (such as a dedicated salad bar)
• Kitchen equipment (primary usage must relate to proposed program)
• Program staffing (cafeteria personnel, lunchroom staff, etc.)
• Nutrition education supplies
• Food safety training

www.LoveYourVeggiesGrants.org

Deadline: November 1, 2008

National Gardening Association and Home Depot Announce 2009 Youth Garden Grants Program

The National Gardening Association has announced that Home Depot will return as the Youth Garden Grants sponsor for 2009.

NGA awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs. In evaluating grant applications, priority will be given to programs that emphasize one or more of the following elements: educational focus or curricular/program integration; nutrition or plant-to-food connections; environmental awareness/education; entrepreneurship; and social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service-learning.

Schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups in the United States are eligible. Applicants must plan to garden with at least fifteen children between the ages of 3 and 18. Previous Youth Garden Grant winners who wish to reapply may do so but must wait a year (e.g., if an organization won in 2008, it can apply again in 2010) and have significantly expanded their garden programs.

For the 2009 grant cycle, 125 grants are available. Packages are as follows: five programs will receive gift cards valued at $1,000 (a $500 gift card to Home Depot and a $500 gift card to the Gardening with Kids catalog and store) and educational materials from NGA; seventy programs will receive a $500 gift card to Home Depot and educational materials from NGA; and fifty programs will receive a $250 gift card to Home Depot and educational materials from NGA. Each award package also includes twelve months of NGA Supporter benefits.

Visit the NGA’s Kidsgardening Web site for complete program information.

Dear Friends, once again the New York State 4-H Foundation invites you to submit your grant application proposals. All the information and application forms can be found on the state website at the following location: http://www.nys4hfoundation.org/county_grant_program/index.php
The application deadline is April 1. Priority will be given to programs that are innovative and directed at one of the three program priority areas of science, engineering and technology, youth community action, or heathy lifestyle education. You may want to use the Guiding Principles for 4-H Youth Development as a guide to the program outcomes in each of the content areas. Close alignment to the outcomes will help to strengthen your chances of funding.
http://nys4h-staff.cce.cornell.edu/documents/Guidingprinciplesfinal_001.pdf

Please contact either myself or Ruth Campbell ( 255-0786) if you have questions about the submission process.

Barb
Barbara Schirmer
Assistant Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension
State Program Leader, 4-H Youth Development
Cornell University, 340 Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: 607-255-7958
fax: 607-255-0788
http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/
http://4hchoosehealth.blogspot.com/
CCE childhood obesity prevention campaign

Let the schools that you work with or want to work with know ….

New York Ag in the Classroom will be offering the Kids Growing Food and Bluebird Project grants once again this year.

These grants provide funding for student-based experiential learning that directly promotes agricultural literacy and awareness. They also enable teachers to teach math and science concepts that meet the NYS Learning Standards in a real world setting. Both grant applications are due by November 6, 2007. Your school is eligible to receive a grant in either category but only one time. .

The grant applications can be found at the following web address:

www.nyaged.org.

Please feel free to contact Vincent Lalli with any questions you may have about this program.

Vincent Lalli
Agriculture Literacy Specialist
New York Agriculture In The Classroom
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607 255 9253 w
607 255 7905 fax
val2@cornell.edu

Looking for a reason to partner with your CCE nutrition folks on a garden-based food or activity project? How about $10,000? General Mills Foundation will award 50 grants of $10,000 for community-based projects promoting Healthy Kids.

General Mills Foundation Invites Applications for Healthy Kids Grant Program

Deadline: January 15, 2008

The General Mills Foundation http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/foundation.aspx ,
in partnership with the American Dietetic Association Foundation http://www.adaf.org/ and the President’s Council onPhysical Fitness http://www.fitness.gov/, is accepting applications for the Champions for Healthy Kids grant program.

This national program will award fifty grants of $10,000 each to community-based groups across the United States that develop creative ways to help youth adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyle.

Applicant organizations must be nonprofit or not-for-profit organizations and have 501(c)(3) or 509(a) status. Local organizations that work with youth are encouraged to apply because their programs are more likely to be sustainable. These may include park districts, health departments, government agencies, Native American tribes, municipal organizations, churches, schools, YMCAs, Boys & Girls clubs, and so on.

The target audience must be youth between the ages of two and eighteen. A registered dietitian or dietetic technician must either be directly involved or serve as an advisor to the program, and the proposal must have at least one nutrition objective and one physical activity objective.

Visit the general mills Web site for complete program information and application procedures.

RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009349/generalmills

GreenWorks! Service Learning Grants Application Deadline: October 31, 2007
Through GreenWorks!, Project Learning Tree’s (PLT) service-learning program, grants up to $5,000 are available to schools and youth organizations for environmental neighborhood improvement projects that involve youth with their community. Visit the Web site for grant guidelines and an application.
http://eelink.net/cgi-bin/ee-link/newclick/1137489

Got any garden-related ideas?

Anyone Can Enter Ideas for Products That Kids Will Like, and Use, to Get Moving.

HopeLab has launched Ruckus Nation, an online idea competition to find new products that can help increase kids’ physical activity. Co-sponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ruckus Nation challenges people of all ages ­including kids themselves ­to submit ideas for fun, engaging new products that will make middle school kids (ages 11 to 14) want to get up and move around. More than $300,000 in prizes will be awarded, including a grand prize of more than $75,000.

• Get involved.
• Read the news release.
• Learn more at the Pioneering Ideas blog.