Grant List Online

MARCH

Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge

The Dow Challenge will award three students or student groups at Northwestern University $10,000 for their work to develop innovative approaches to meet human needs while also protecting the environment, promoting economic growth and achieving social welfare, now and into the future.

Proposed research projects should be interdisciplinary in nature, blending applied science or engineering with business thinking. Areas of interest include:

Sustainable Chemistry

Energy Efficiency/Conservation

Climate Change

Life Cycle Product Safety

Human Health and the Environment

Sustainable Freshwater Supply & Distribution

Environmental Policy Development & Human Behavior Change

Sustainable Infrastructure

Deadline: March 1^st, 2009

Website: http://www.sustainability.northwestern.edu

Contacts:

Professor Kimberly Gray (k-gray@northwestern.edu)

Keith Harley (k-harley@northwestern.edu)

Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education and Engagement Grant

International Studies Department, Northwestern

The Lee F. Anderson Memorial Global Education & Engagement Grant will provide funding for a Northwestern University rising junior or senior who demonstrates initiative and commitment in making a difference in the world. The grant will support student engagement, volunteerism or service projects either locally or abroad.

This award is open to a Northwestern rising junior or senior and will support a project in international/global-focused student engagement, volunteerism or service either in the U.S. or abroad. Student projects may focus on, but are not limited to the following:

· Work with a community, nonprofit or set of organizations on a meaningful project that supplements a student’s academic studies with applied engagement, volunteerism or service,

· A summer project for a member of an international or local-global focused student group to increase the capacity of that organization to provide meaningful programming and connections with the Northwestern community,

· Creation of a project or product through which an individual student shares the story or experience of some international or global-issues focused organization or community in outreach to the broader Northwestern community.

Award: $1,500 individual project; $3,000 group project

Deadline: March 9^th, 2009

Details here: http://www.internationalstudies.northwestern.edu/research/deptprizes.html

Contact: International Studies Department (international-studies@northwestern.edu)

Ashoka's Invent Your World Challenge

This challenge supports youth who use new or adapted technology for change to launch their own social ventures.

Award: up to $1000, most outstanding entry gets $20,000

Deadline: March 15, 2009

Website: http://genvcampaigns.org/campaigns/invent/

Northwestern Sustainability Initiative

As a crucial part of its mission, ISEN will provide matching funds for Post-Doc Positions, Graduate Fellowship Enhancements and Undergraduate Fellowships. It will also support conferences and help with other research expenditures such as major equipment purchase and maintenance.

Booster Awards: www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/booster_awards.html

Awards for Equipment: www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/equipment_awards.html

Award: varies

Deadline for proposal: March 15, 2009 and July 15, 2009

Website: http://www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/index.html

MAY

Brower Youth Awards

Brower Youth Awards seeks outstanding youth leaders, ages 13-22, with the power and bold vision to create environmental change. Each year, the Brower Youth Awards honors six young people with a $3000 cash award and week-long trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. Award recipients will participate that week in media and public outreach and be recognized at an awards ceremony attended by 900 members of the public.

Award: $3000

Website: http://www.broweryouthawards.org/article.php?list=type&type=12
Deadline: May 15, 2009

APRIL

Patagonia Environmental Grant

We support small, grassroots activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working on multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect our environment. We help local groups working to protect local habitat, and think the individual battles to protect a specific stand of forest, stretch of river or indigenous wild species are the most effective in raising more complicated issues – particularly those of biodiversity and ecosystem protection – in the public mind. We look for innovative groups that produce measurable results, and we like to support efforts that force the government to abide by its own – our own – laws. Your efforts should be quantifiable, with specific goals, objectives and action plans, and should include measures for evaluating success.

Award: $3000-$8000
Deadline: April 30, 2009

Website: http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/patagonia.go?assetid=2927

JUNE

Murphy Grant, McCormick

Some information and past awards can be found here: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/alumni/murphy_awards.php

Award: $5000

Deadline: late June

Contact: Assistant Dean Ellen Worsdall (e-worsdall@northwestern.edu)

JULY

Northwestern Sustainability Initiative

Booster Awards: www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/booster_awards.html

Awards for Equipment: www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/equipment_awards.html

Award: varies

Deadline for proposal: March 15, 2009 and July 15, 2009

Website: http://www.isen.northwestern.edu/research/index.html

AUGUST

P3 EPA Grant

The P3 Awards program aims to generate research outputs in the form of innovative, inherently benign, integrated, and interdisciplinary designs that will advance the scientific, technical, and policy knowledge necessary to further the goals of sustainability. The desired outcomes of the P3 research are to minimize the use and generation of hazardous substances, utilize resources and energy effectively and efficiently, and simultaneously advance the goals of economic competitiveness and human health and environmental protection for societal benefit.

Award: $10,000 (Phase I) plus $75,000 (Phase II)

Deadline: August-December

Website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/apply/index.html

Nathan Cummings Foundation, Environmental Grant

The Foundation's approach to grantmaking embodies some basic themes in all of its programs:

§ concern for the poor, disadvantaged, and underserved;

§ respect for diversity;

§ promotion of understanding across cultures;

§ and empowerment of communities in need.

Deadline: August 15, 2009 (Note: first submit letter of inquiry)

Website: http://www.nathancummings.net/programs/000016.html

SEPTEMBER

P3 EPA Grant

Award: $10,000 (Phase I) plus $75,000 (Phase II)

Deadline: August-December

Website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/apply/index.html

OCTOBER

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

Sustainable Vision Grants

Sustainable Vision Grants support innovative educational programs based at U.S. institutions of higher education. These programs move ideas to commercialization while addressing basic human needs such as health, food, security, clean water and affordable energy for people living in poverty in the U.S. or abroad. Grant recipients partner with a non-profit, for-profit educational or governmental organizations to plan and implement precuts or services in an economically sustainable way.

Award: $10,000-$50,000

Deadline: October 16^th, 2009

Website: http://www.nciia.org/g_sustainable.html

Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition

"…a global search for the most creative and inspiring ways young people are changing our world."

About: http://changemakers.net/en-us/node/9138/competition/framework

Guidelines: http://changemakers.net/en-us/node/9138/competition/guidelines

FAQs: http://changemakers.net/en-us/faq

Award: $5000

Deadline: October 15, 2008

P3 EPA Grant

Award: $10,000 (Phase I) plus $75,000 (Phase II)

Deadline: August-December

Website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/apply/index.html

NOVEMBER

P3 EPA Grant

Award: $10,000 (Phase I) plus $75,000 (Phase II)

Deadline: August-December

Website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/apply/index.html

DECEMBER

Sustainable Skylines Initiative

Fund uses: To integrate transportation, energy, land use and air quality planning programs into projects that yield measurable air quality benefits over a three-year period, as well as longer-lasting benefits.

SSI works with eligible entities to aid their communities to develop locally-led activities to help reduce emissions and promote sustainability with the goal of cleaner and healthier air. The long-term goal of SSI is to help communities build self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to achieve positive environmental impacts, livability, and economic development benefits for many generations to come.

Award: $50,000-$250,000

Deadline: December 17, 2008

Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43229&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW

P3 EPA Grant

Award: $10,000 (Phase I) plus $75,000 (Phase II)

Deadline: August-December

Website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/apply/index.html

Mondialogo Engineering Award

The Mondialogo Engineering Award invites engineering students in developing and developed countries to form local groups and international teams to work together to develop project proposals that address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals – proposals to improve the quality of life in the developing world.

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnerships for development

Award: Gold € 15,000, Silver € 10,000, Bronze € 5,000.

Website: http://www.mondialogo.org/272.html?&L=0
Deadline: December 31, 2008