Funding

Deadline: February 3, 2012

Royal Bank of Canada is accepting applications for the RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant program, which is designed to provide funding for projects related to watershed protection and access to safe drinking water.

Deadline: January 31, 2012

The Garden Club of America is accepting applications for a national fellowship in urban forestry. The fellowship supports advanced undergraduate and graduate students. With this fellowship, The Garden Club of America seeks to forward their goal of advancing our knowledge of urban forests and increasing the number of scientists in the field of urban forestry. Applications are reviewed by a selection committee at Virginia Tech composed of practicing urban forestry scientists and professionals in related fields. Final selection is endorsed by The Garden Club of America.

Deadline: January 23, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to award between $1.8 to $3.8 million in funding for projects across the country to help restore urban waters by improving water quality and supporting community revitalization.

Deadline: January 13, 2012

For the fifth year, Siemens is sponsoring the Siemens Sustainable Community Awards in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC). Nominations for the 2012 awards will be accepted in three categories: small communities (less than 50,000 residents), midsize cities (50,000-500,000 residents) and large communities (more than 500,000 residents).

Deadline: January 13, 2012

Our nation's public lands need our support every day. With stretched budgets and limited staff, land managers at federal, state and local public lands need all the help they can get. That help often comes from nonprofit organizations whose missions are focused on serving public land sites in the nation and the improvement and responsible use of those sites.

Deadline: December 15, 2011

Temper of the Times Foundation provides funds only to nonprofit organizations classified as 501(c)(3) public charities. Recognizing that organizations working to protect the environment in general have limited access to paid media, the Foundation provides funds to underwrite advertising designed to promote the conservation and restoration of native wildlife, plants, and ecosystems in the United States.

Deadline: December 15, 2011

The TKF Foundation has announced the creation of the Open Spaces Sacred Places (OSSP) National Awards Program. The program seeks to generate research that may help encourage decision-makers to support contemplative green spaces as a public investment and essential civic amenity. Grants will be awarded from a total funding pool of $5 million to cross-disciplinary teams that conceptualize, plan, design, and implement a physical space; conduct associated research studies; and disseminate findings.

Deadline: December 5, 2011

Fiskars' Project Orange Thumb provides tools, materials, and other support to help communities reach their goals for neighborhood beautification, community collaboration, and healthy, sustainable food sources.

Deadline: December 1, 2011

The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) has announced the posting of the 2012 USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share grant program.

Deadline: January 1, 2012

The Volvo Adventure, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, is an educational program that rewards environmental activities and the decision-makers of the future. To enter, you form a team of 2 to 5 members aged 13 to 16. Perform an environmental project in your local community & submit the project via our online submission tool before the competition deadline, January 31st 2012.

Deadline: December 1, 2011

What's your issue? What's important to you? Do you see something wrong and want to fix it? Today's issues are a reflection of decisions we've made in the past. Tomorrow's world will be a reflection of our decisions - and your leadership - today.

Deadline: November 1, 2011

American Forests Global ReLeaf programs has grants available for 2012 restoration tree planting projects. Since 1988, Global ReLeaf, a program of the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization and the only one dedicated exclusively to forests, has supported the plantings of nearly 40 million trees.

Deadline: October 31, 2011

The Home Depot Foundation is accepting applications for its Community Impact Grants Program from nonprofit organizations, public schools, and public service agencies in the United States that are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their communities.

Deadline: Rolling

We lend our support and services to non-profit charity and public organization causes that promote civic pride, economic development and revitalization.

Deadline: October 10, 2011

The foundation supports 501(c)(3) charitable organizations whose areas of interest are projects related to wildlife, wildlife habitat, environmental protection and outdoor recreation. Projects that strengthen volunteer activity and outreach/community involvement in these categories are of particular interest.

Deadline: Rolling

The Citizens Bank Foundation (Citizens Bank in the northeast and Charter One in the Midwest) provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the communities where the company does business in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Deadline: October 5, 2011

The North Face Explore Fund is a grant program to support U.S. nonprofit organizations that help young people connect to the outdoors. The program was established in 2010 as part of the company's mission to encourage an active healthy lifestyle and protection of the nation's natural landscapes by creating a stronger connection with the outdoors.

Deadline: October

Wilburforce Foundation protects wildlife habitat in Western North America by actively supporting organizations and leaders advancing conservation solutions. The October round of applications will consider the following programs/regions: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Southwest Crescent, Conservation Science.

Deadline: September 31, 2011 and December 31, 2011

Grants are made for activities that conform to the mission of the Captain Planet Foundation which is to: promote and support high-quality educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through learning experiences that engage them in active, hands-on projects to improve the environment in their schools and communities.