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Grants available for environmental awareness
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Posted on Dec 22 2005
Are you a teacher with a classroom project in mind? Want to get your students immersed in the island’s marine environment? Maybe you’re not a teacher, but you just love the clear blue waters that surround us, and would like to start up a project to enhance or preserve them. Well, here’s your chance to get some money to turn those ideas into reality!
Several small grants up to $2,500 each are available for projects to enhance public awareness and involvement in protecting and restoring coral reefs in the CNMI. The Coastal Resources Management Office, in cooperation with the CNMI interagency Coral Reef Committee, is seeking proposals from CNMI public and private schools, educators, community organizations, private individuals, and businesses for projects to enhance public awareness and involvement in protecting and restoring coral reefs in the CNMI. These are a few examples of the many kinds of possible projects:
– Classroom projects encouraging stewardship
– Community events, on-the-ground projects, contests
– Radio or television shows, newspaper features, public service announcements
– School or community art or theatre events
– School curricula
– Volunteer monitoring
Surely there are many wonderful and creative ideas out there that are not listed here that just never got off the ground due to the absence of funding. Join CRMO as they host two workshops to help proposal writers at 5pm on Tuesday, Dec. 27 and at 5pm on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006 at the CRMO Conference Room, 2nd Floor Morgen Bldg., San Jose.
See if your project idea will fly, and get help creating a fantastic proposal! RSVP to CRMO is appreciated but not required. If you live on Tinian or Rota and would like to request a workshop, or if you would like further information, please call John Dax Moreno at 664-8300/1. (PR)
