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Creative Funding SourcesFind funding without emptying your
pockets
Meggan JohnsonWittenbach/Wege Agriscience and Environmental Education Center
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Think about who you are asking…
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Grants• Amway One By One• Donors Choose• The Wege Foundation• Lowe’s Toolbox for
Education• Home Depot Youth
Gardening
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Amway One By One Grant• Grants generally awarded to programs and
organizations that have a direct and lasting impact on children at risk.
• Favor programs that offer children the resources to LIVE (basic needs), LEARN (education), ACHIEVE (building potential)—and of course—PLAY (have fun).
• All applications must be submitted online, prior to November 1st.
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Donors Choose• Online charity that makes it easy for
anyone to help students in need.
• Teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on their site.
• Donors can give any amount to the project that most inspires them.
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The Wege Foundation• Mission is to enrich the lives of the people
in the greater Grand Rapids area by improving education, environment, arts & culture, health care and community.
• Requests should align with one of their five areas of interest. – Education– Environment– Arts & Culture– Health Care– Community Service
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Lowe’s Toolbox for Education
• Provides the funds to expand student
opportunities and improve schools.
• $2,000 and $5,000 per school is available.
• Deadline for submitting applications for this grant cycle is October 15th; however if 1500 applications are received before the application deadline, the application process will close.
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Home Depot Youth Gardening
• Five winners will receive gift cards valued at $1,000 and 95 winners will receive $500 gift cards to purchase gardening materials and supplies from their local Home Depot store.
• NGA awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs. Priority will be given to programs that emphasize one or more of these elements:– integration of content standards– nutrition connections– environmental awareness– entrepreneurship– social aspects of gardening such as leadership development,
team building, community support, or service-learning
• Deadline December 2013
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Other Grant Opportunities• Mantis Tiller Award
– receive a Mantis Tiller/Cultivator
• Kids in Need Foundation– funded by retail and education credit union sponsors
• Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation Literacy and Education
– support for children in literacy and education programs
• Target Field Trip Grants Program – school field trips that connects teacher’s curriculum to out-of school experiences
• The Humane Society Humane Education – teaching of kindness and respect for animals and their natural habitats
• The Donald Samull Classroom Herb Garden Grant– herb garden grants for teachers in grades 3 through 6
• School Garden Grant Program (Whole Kids Foundation, Whole Foods and Food Corps)
– school garden project that will help children engage with fresh fruits and vegetables
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Think Outside the Box
Who can I partner with?
Cross curricular?
Is it sustainable?
Cancer prevention grant = $3,135 for bee hives and supplies
Cancer prevention grant = $740 for snowshoes
Cancer prevention grant = $2,144 for gardening supplies
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No Time (or Desire) to Write a Grant?
• Planet Green• TerraCycle• Office Max • Meijer Community
Rewards
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Planet Green• Raise funds while helping the environment by recycling empty printer cartridges, old cell phones and
small electronics.
• Pack 20 or more accepted items into a used box and download and attach a free pre-paid shipping label. Average payback per shipment is $40-75!
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TerraCycle • Collect difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurpose
the material into affordable, innovative products.
• Points earned can be redeemed for a variety of charitable gifts or for a payment of $0.01 per point to the non-profit organization or school of your choice.
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Office Max
• Recycle used ink and toner cartridges.
• Qualified ink cartridges earn customers a $2 reward in their MaxPerks account ($20 max per calendar month).
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Meijer Community Rewards• Enrolled members shop Meijer, simply paying with cash, PIN-based debit card or linked Meijer credit card.
• Purchases made with a linked Meijer credit card earn 1%. Purchases made with cash or PIN-based debit card and a swiped Meijer 1 CardSM earn 0.5%.
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Can’t Find Any Money?• If you can’t find any money, look for
labor, supplies, printing resources, discounts, etc. that business could donate to offset your costs.
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Questions?