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Ohio Environmental Education Fund

The Ohio Environmental Education Fund, created by the state legislature in 1990 and administered by Ohio EPA, distributes roughly $700,000 a year in mini grants of $500 to $5,000 and general grants of $5,000 to $25,000 to schools and organizations running environmental-education projects, including stream monitoring, aquaponics, and riparian-buffer restoration work tied to water quality. Ohio EPA also coordinates statewide access to the Project WET and Healthy Water, Healthy People curricula for elementary, middle, and high schools.

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What you will find there

  • Mini grants of $500 to $5,000 and general grants of $5,000 to $25,000 for K-12 environmental-education projects
  • Funding history that includes stream-monitoring, aquaponics, and riparian-buffer classroom projects
  • Statewide coordination of Project WET and Healthy Water, Healthy People curricula
  • Free grant-writing workshops held several times a year around the state
  • Grant coordinators available to help applicants prepare a proposal before the deadline

Our take

Real grant money, funded from a portion of the state's own air- and water-pollution penalties, is the kind of resource a directory of links alone cannot substitute for, and the fund's grant-writing workshops lower the barrier for a first-time applicant. It is a funding source rather than a ready-made lesson, so a school still needs to design its own project and write a competitive proposal to benefit.

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