grants program we are looking for education projects that:
- Advance knowledge about how to spark curiosity and inspire learners of all ages to care for and protect our world
- Pilot new, or scale proven, educational solutions
- Enable learners to acquire new knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes that help them care for and protect our world
- Use interdisciplinary approaches
What We Aim to Fund with this Call
This funding opportunity supports projects or research that enacts the future today. We aim to support projects that cultivate in learners of any age the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to take action in ways that benefit the planet and its people.
Proposals may contain one or both elements of the following:
- Project: a pilot of a new learning solution, or scaling of a learning solution with some evidence of effectiveness, to a new geography or population of learners;
- Research: Measurement of the effectiveness of educational innovations that develop learners of all ages’ skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to design a future for our planet that benefits people and nature.
Competitive Proposals
Competitive proposals should describe:
- The future that you are planning toward.
- Educational projects or research that leverage novel approaches, with potential for scale and impact, and ideas that span disciplinary, political, geographic, or cultural boundaries.
- The community of learners you intend to reach.
- The learning solution intended to develop capabilities in learners.
- The skills, attitudes, and knowledge your project intends to cultivate in learners in order to design a future for our planet that leads to healthier outcomes for people and nature to live and thrive.
- Anticipated outcomes including the intended impact(s) on the learners in addition to any impact(s) on the environment, planet, or people. Impacts should describe the knowledge, attitudes or skills to develop solutions that mutually benefit humans, ecosystems and the planet, and contribute to the knowledge base of how we develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills in people.
- Relevant inclusive methodologies employed in project or research design
Projects do not need to use technology in order to be competitive, but may use technology as a tool to achieve learning goals. All topics related to our focus areas – Ocean, Land, Wildlife, Human Histories and Cultures, Planetary Health, and Space – are encouraged and will be considered.
