Pennsylvania DEP Awards 110 Grants for Environmental Education and Stewardship

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today awarded $304,137 in environmental education grants to 110 schools, universities, non-profit organizations, and conservation districts across Pennsylvania.

"Funding environmental education projects, like these, is an important function of government that works," Acting DEP Secretary John Quigley said. "I am pleased that we can support these initiatives that not only educate our young people about today's environmental issues, but also realize tangible environmental benefits."

Grant recipients will use the funding for various initiatives, including farm field days, summer camps, exploratory learning activities, professional development, and explanatory signage along watersheds. Through these initiatives, students, teachers, farmers, and others will learn about a variety of environmental issues ranging from pollination, stormwater management and hydroponics in agriculture, to Marcellus Shale and the Chesapeake Bay, among other topics.

The grant program was established by the Environmental Education Act of 1993, which mandates setting aside 5 percent of the pollution fines and penalties DEP collects annually for environmental education in Pennsylvania.

For more information about environmental education, click here; visit www.dep.state.pa.us and click on Environmental Education; or call 717-772-1828.

MEDIA CONTACT: Amanda Witman, 717-787-1323

EDITOR'S NOTE: Grant recipients are listed below with the award amounts, alphabetically by county. Organizations that are marked with an asterisk (*) represent the total of two awards.

Adams Upper Adams School District - $3,000

AlleghenyAudubon Society of Western Pennsylvania - $3,000 Baldwin Whitehall School District - $3,000The Bradley Center - $3,000Citizen Power, Inc. - $3,000 Consortium for Public Education - $3,000 Mount Washington Community Development Corporation - $3,000 North Hills School District - $3,000 PA CleanWays of Allegheny County, Inc.* - $6,000 South Allegheny School District - $2,562 South Fayette Conservation Group - $3,000 Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Corporation* - $6,000 Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $3,000

Berks  Alvernia University - $3,000 Borough of Kutztown - $296 Foundation for the Reading Public Museum - $1,150 The Rodale Institute - $3,000

Blair   Bellwood Antis School District - $3,000

Bucks Bucks County Conservation District - $3,000 Pennsbury School District / Quarry Hill Elementary - $3,000

Butler Butler Area School District - $1,560 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania - $2,997 

Cambria         Cambria County Conservation District - $3,000 Pennsylvania Highlands Community College - $2,600 Saint Francis University - $2,674

Centre            Borough of State College - $2,328 ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania, Inc. - $3,000 Pennsylvania State University* - $5,599

Chester         Coatesville Area Arts Alliance, Inc. - $895 Green Valleys Association of Southeastern PA, Inc.* - $5,006 The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County* - $6,000 Urban and Rural Science Alliance Inc.* - $5,972

Clearfield       Central Intermediate Unit #10 - $3,000 Curwensville Area School District - $3,000

Crawford        Crawford County Conservation District - $3,000

Cumberland   Carlisle Area School District - $2,996Cumberland Valley School District - $2,826

Dauphin         Audubon Pennsylvania - $3,000 Dauphin County 4-H Clubs, Inc. - $2,888 Dauphin County Commissioners, Dauphin County Parks and Recreation - $3,000 Halifax Area School District - $3,000

Delaware        Lansdowne Friends School - $3,000 Nicholas Newlin Foundation Newlin Grist Mill - $3,000 Ridley School District - $3,000

Elk       Elk County Conservation District - $3,000

Erie     Environment Erie - $2,960 Erie City School District - $3,000 Gannon University - $2,687 Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit #5 - $2,755 The Pennsylvania State University (Behrend Campus) - $2,896

Huntingdon   Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11 - $2,299

Lackawanna  Michaels Community Services Corp - $2,489

Lancaster       Cocalico School District - $1,651 The Common Wheel - $3,000 Lancaster Farmland Trust - $3,000 Lancaster School District - $3,000 Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology - $3,000

Lawrence       Lawrence County Conservation District - $1,000

Lebanon         Lebanon County Commissioners - $2,360 Lebanon Valley College - $3,000 

Lehigh            Lehigh County Conservation District - $2,993 PP&L Sustainable Energy Fund - $3,000 Wildlands Conservancy, Inc. - $3,000 Wildlife Information Center, Inc. (Lehigh Gap Nature Center) - $3,000

Luzerne          Wilkes-Barre Area School District - $2,500

Lycoming       Lycoming County Commissioners - $3,000

McKean          McKean County Conservation District - $3,000

Mercer            Jamestown Area School District - $2,900 Mercer County Conservation District - $2,989

Montgomery  Greater Penn Area Transportation Management Association - $2,993 Let's Go Outdoors LLC - $3,000 National Audubon Society, Inc. - $3,000 The Outdoor School in Horsham - $2,827 Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy - $3,000 Riverbend Environmental Education Center - $3,000 Souderton Area School District - $3,000

Northampton Nazareth Area School District - $1,500Nurture Nature Center, Inc. - $3,000

Philadelphia   Friends Select School            - $3,000 JASTECH Development Services, Inc. - $2,972 New Foundations Charter School, Inc. - $3,000

Potter Austin Area School District - $3,000 Potter County Conservation District - $3,000

Schuylkill       Mahanoy Creek Watershed Association - $3,000Schuylkill Headwaters Association, Inc. - $3,000 Schuylkill Technology Center - $2,997

Snyder            Lower Penns Creek Watershed Association - $2,952 Selinsgrove Area School District - $541Selinsgrove Borough - $2,890  Snyder County Conservation District - $2,716

Susquehanna            Susquehanna County Conservation District - $3,000

Tioga  Mansfield University of Pennsylvania - $2,993

Union  Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education - $3,000

Venango         Venango Conservation District - $2,542

Warren           Warren County School District - $2,973

Washington   McGuffey School District - $2,973

WayneLacawac Sanctuary Foundation, Inc. - $3,000 SEEDS of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. - $3,000 Wayne Conservation District - $1,940

Westmoreland           Eastern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center - $1,500Saint Vincent College - $3,000 Westmoreland Cleanways - $3,000

Multiple          Conemaugh Valley Conservancy, Inc. - $3,000Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators - $3,000

 

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SOURCE Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection