The Save-the-Redwoods League, a nonprofit organization that works to protect the ancient redwood forest from destruction, will grant funds to schools, interpretive associations, and other qualified nonprofits engaged in quality redwood education. Grants are designed to foster and encourage public awareness of redwoods, redwood ecology, and forest stewardship.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: schools and 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline: June 30, 2009.
http://www.savetheredwoods.org/education/edgrants.shtml

The Student Conservation Association's Green Your School Contest stimulates and/or identifies conservation service projects designed by high school students that improve, restore, beautify, or conserve their high school environment. Entries will be judged according to the following criteria: the project has or will improve the environmental health of the school; the project is sustainable; the project is initiated by students and engages other students, teachers, and school administrators; the submission itself is of high quality; and the project engaged the community.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: projects must have been begun after August 1, 2008 and be student-designed.
Deadline: October 9, 2009.
http://www.thesca.org/green-your-school

Project Learning Tree (PLT) GreenWorks! grants engage PLT educators and their students with their community via "learning-by-doing" environmental projects that involve student leadership, service-learning, and community participation.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: Educators who have received PLT training. Project must be youth-planned and -executed, and integrate student learning and community service. It also must include at least one community partner, such as a local organization or business, and must acquire 50 percent matching funds.
Deadline: October 31, 2009.
http://www.plt.org/cms/pages/21_22_21.html

The Mickelson ExxonMobil 2010 Teachers Academy offers a five-day program designed to provide third- through fifth-grade teachers with knowledge and skills to motivate students to pursue careers in science and math.
Maximum award: all-expenses-paid, five-day program in July 2010 in Jersey City, NJ.
Eligibility: third- through fifth-grade teachers in the United States.
Deadline: October 31, 2009.
http://www.sendmyteacher.com/send_your_teacher.php

The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other non-profit educational organizations for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. Funds will be provided only for the purchase of native plants and seed.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: schools, nature centers, and other non-profit and not-for-profit places of learning, including houses of worship with a site available for this stewardship project.
Deadline: November 15, 2009.
http://www.for-wild.org/seedmony.htm

The Live Monarch Foundation is offering free milkweed seeds to classes, groups, and individuals in the migration path of the Monarch butterfly to help rehabilitate the natural habitat of the Monarch in North America. In recent years, over 75 percent of the wintering Monarchs butterflies from North America have frozen to death in Mexico as a result rain and sub-freezing conditions, and a nationwide shortage of milkweed, which Monarchs need to procreate, has further decimated their population. Please plant milkweed seeds to ensure Monarch survival. A milkweed in every yard!
Maximum award: 15+ butterfly garden seeds, including milkweed seeds.
Eligibility: anyone in the Monarch migration path who will plant seeds.
Deadline: N/A
http://www.livemonarch.com/free-milkweed-seeds.htm

National Audubon Society: Pennies for the Planet helps young people get involved with conservation by taking part in local conservation action projects, and by collecting, saving, and sending in pennies for national and worldwide conservation projects. In this year's Pennies for the Planet campaign, students and their families can learn about three conservation projects around the U.S. that need help. Each Pennies project represents a conservation effort that will leave a legacy for future generations.
Maximum award: National Audubon Society staff will visit prize-winning school to create a program about wildlife and wild places.
Eligibility: kids working in classrooms, clubs, Scout troops, other groups, and on their own.
Deadline: N/A.
http://www.togethergreen.org/p4p/Educators.aspx

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation Classroom Grants are awarded to encourage excellence in educating students about math, science, technology, and engineering.
Eligibility: current AIAA Educator Associate or AIAA Professional members actively engaged as K-12 classroom educators.
Maximum Award: $200.
Deadline: N/A.
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=244

The Scholastic Lexus Environmental Challenge program is designed to educate and empower students to take action to improve the environment. The program encourages middle and high school students to develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their communities. Middle and high school teams comprised of 5 to 10 students and one teacher advisor are invited to participate in four initial challenges, each addressing a different environmental element  -- land, water, air, and climate.
Maximum Award: $75,000.
Eligibility: students in grades 6-12 and their teachers.
Deadline: varies.
http://www.scholastic.com/lexus

Outdoor Classroom Grant Program--Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation, International Paper and National Geographic Explorer! classroom magazine have partnered to create an outdoor classroom grant program to provide schools with additional resources to improve their science curriculum by engaging students in hands-on experiences outside the traditional classroom.
Eligibility: K-12 public schools in the United States.
Deadline: varies. http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=AboutLowes/outdoor/index.html

Dow Awards--by the Dow Chemical Company--awards grants to support proposed initiatives concentrating on math and science, teacher training, and parental involvement for K-12 school districts. School districts and school boards nationwide, as well as programs that promote systemic education reform in math and science, are eligible to apply. Special attention is given to school districts around communities where Dow is located.
Application Deadline: Varies
http://www.dow.com/about/corp/social/gen_fund.htm

The Toyota USA Foundation is committed to improving education by supporting programs that offer the tools and training to help enrich people’s lives.
"We are dedicated to improving family literacy, offering various teacher grants, and providing hands-on vocational training through neighborhood schools and national organizations."
Deadline: N/A
http://www.toyota.com/about/our_commitment/philanthropy/education/index.html

The National Environmental Education Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization charted by US Congress in 1990 to advance environmental knowledge objectively in America. More information about NEEF and our other programs can be found at http://www.neefusa.org

The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) and The Weather Channel are offering three incredible opportunities to high school teachers in a variety of grants for our High School Challenge.  (1) Professional development grants available at http://www.neefusa.org/programs/dev_grant.htm will allow teachers to take distance education courses in environmental education from home, thereby integrating their knowledge and information into their own communities and school.  (2) Single-course integration grants available at http://www.neefusa.org/programs/course_grants.htm will enable teachers to create programs, courses, and projects based around environmental education, or simple infuse their current curricula with eco-knowledge. These are not limited to science courses--it is open to every area of study from math to business, literature to language, art to economics.  (3) Cross-curricula grants for teams of three or more teachers (http://www.neefusa.org/programs/course_grants.htm) provide support of environmental education across multiple courses. Again--not limited to science courses and open to all.

Also, check out National Environmental Education Week: http://www.eeweek.org the nation's largest environmental education event in the country! This past April's "Carbon" theme was a huge success. For 2009, our "Water" theme will be bigger and better than ever! EE Week is targeted to all students K-12.