OEEF Mission • To enhance Ohio citizens’ awareness and understanding of environmental issues OEEF Definition of Environmental OEEF Funds Education • Funding for OEEF The learning process grants comes from whereby people half the civil penalties acquire an awareness assessed by Ohio and understanding of EPA for violations of the natural and built Ohio’s air and water environment, cultivate pollution control laws attitudes that value the environment, and • Approximately $1 develop skills for million awarded addressing annually environmental issues. Audiences for Grant Projects OEEF Grant Sizes • General Grants $5,000 - $50,000, up • Pre-school through to 30 months university students • Mini grants $500 - and teachers $5,000, up to 12 • General Public months • Regulated • Application Deadlines Community mid-January and mid- July 1
Online Applications OEEF Grant Recipients • Applications are submitted electronically, in • Ohio-based organizations OEEF’s Grant Management System (GMS) • Schools and universities • https://oeef.bambooportal.com/gpOEEF/ • Local Governments: cities, counties, default.htm parks, soil and water conservation districts, solid waste districts, recycling offices, health departments, regional planning agencies • Private companies and trade associations • Non-profit organizations Sample Grant for General Public Sample Grant for Regulated Community Audience: $49,989 to TMACOG Audience: $11,850 to Clermont Office of • 6 quarterly brochures to 200,000 Environmental Quality residents of Maumee River basin: how citizens impact water quality • Better Site Design Tools and • Supplemented with radio, print Techniques for Managing Post- Construction Storm Water ads, billboards, library displays • One-day workshop for planners, • Multiple jurisdictions developers, engineers, • Water conservation, lawn care, contractors, zoning and code septic systems, streambank enforcement officials. stabilization, native plants, • Tour of developments household hazardous waste, successfully using designs to storm drains & ditches minimize storm water. • www.maumeerap.org/GWAH.htm l OEEF Funding Priorities OEEF Funding Priorities • Compliance • Community Issues : educating the public about assistance : helping technical aspects of environmental issues in their regulated entities, and communities, such as: particularly small – storm water management; businesses, – drinking water protection; understand and – brownfields cleanup and comply with Ohio’s redevelopment; environmental laws – Improving air quality in counties not meeting federal Clean Air standards; and and regulations. – Education efforts related to endorsed watershed plans 2
OEEF Funding Priorities OEEF Funding Priorities • Environmental Public Health : educating about • Standards-Based Education : using environmental education human health threats from environmental to improve student academic pollution, and how to minimize human exposure to achievement, specifically preserve good health. Current priority issues through activities that are aligned with the Ohio include reduction of ozone precursors, airborne Department of Education’s particulates, and toxic Academic Content Standards, chemicals such as mercury and projects to educate teachers and non-formal in the environment. educators about ways to effectively present environmental subjects. OEEF Funding Priorities OEEF Funding Priorities • Environmental Sustainability : education • Career Development: educating students about about energy efficiency and conservation, what environmental professionals do, to alternative fuels and energy sources, green encourage them to enter careers in environmental building principles, sustainable and science and engineering, and related fields. community-supported agriculture. What else does fund? EnviroScape models… www.Enviroscapes.com 3
Environmental Monitoring by Award-winning curricula… Students and Citizen Groups Field trips to see environmental Teaching Citizens… protection techniques Publications… CD-ROMs… 4
Watershed Festivals, Stream Community involvement in environmental planning… CleanUps, Watershed Awareness… Exhibits… Maps & Signage Demonstration Projects… Resource libraries, equipment… Solar-powered water pump to keep livestock from degrading stream banks ($16,198 OEEF grant to Harrison SWCD) 5
Skill-building seminars… OEEF Wants You! • Environmental and education professionals are needed as volunteer peer reviewers • It’s a great way to become a better grant writer yourself! For more information: Ohio Environmental Education Fund www.epa.state.oh.us/oeef 6
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