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Selection Criteria
Conservation Education Mini-Grant Program
NNREC has set the criteria used to evaluate applications to the program.
Required
- application form is complete (description, budget, and contact info)
- applicant has taken an environmental education or service-learning workshop from NNREC or one of its partners; if the application is from a school or nonprofit, at least one of the team members has taken a workshop
- project directly benefits K-12 students, or the people who educate them
- project is supported or accepted by the school principal, or nonprofit organization executive director or board
Encouraged
- highlights hands-on and inquiry learning, no matter what the subject area
- more than one subject is integrated in the project
- district, Nevada, and/or national standards are met
- elements of high-quality service-learning
- cross-grade experiences where older or trained students are teaching other students
- experiences on the schoolyard, in the community, and/or in the natural environment as well as the classroom
- mini-grant funds are matched by other funds
Obviously no single small project can meet all of these criteria, but only projects which meet several will be competitive.
More information
For more information on the program, please contact minigrant@nnrec.org.
