Press Releases
Earth Day Media Press Release
Earth Day, April 22, is coming up fast. If you would like to alert the local media about activities that you and your students are doing to improve the earth, here are templates that your students can fill in and send to media outlets in your neighborhood. We recommend that you have students send this out to your local newspapers and/or TV outlets one week in advance, (or April 15th, if your event is on the 22nd) then again April 20th. (Mark your calendars!) Please ask your students to do this, and to follow up with a phone call or, maybe even an in-person visit, if that’s feasible. Practice with your students on what they would say if they are interviewed by media or politicians—how doing this work makes them feel, what they are learning, mentioning Service Learning Texas, EnCana and Texas Parks and Wildlife—all are helpful. Please invite your local political representative to join you and let us know what happens!
New Round of Texas Healthy Habitats Grants Announced
Service Learning Texas will open another competition for Texas Healthy Habitats grants for the 2011-2012 school year on April 1. This collaboration between Encana Oil & Gas (USA), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and Service Learning Texas will again focus on involving students in environmental service-learning initiatives to improve or restore the natural environment. This year ESRI will be joining the collaborative as well and will provide support to grantees in the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology for student-led projects.
Eligible applicants for the grants include:
• Public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and private nonprofit schools that serve youth in grades 5-12;
• 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that work with students in grades 5-12; and
• State or local agencies that work with youth in grades 5-12.
Applications for this grant competition will be available on the Healthy Habitats page of the SLT website on April 1. The application will include a required pre-proposal, which are requested by April 28 but may be submitted as late as May 31. Applicants will receive feedback on pre-proposals and invitations to submit complete applications, which are due Monday, June 30, 2011. In designing a project, applicants are required to seek input from community partners with expertise in environmental issues specific to their ecoregion and/or riparian zone as discussed in the state Wildlife Action Plan. This may include staff of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) or other individuals with expertise on local and regional environmental issues. Applicants may apply for up to $10,000. Grant awards are dependent upon approval of program funding by Encana Oil and Gas (USA) and by other potential funders.
Students Begin Work On Healthy Habitats Grants Across Texas
Projects Help Implement Texas Wildlife Action Plan
AUSTIN — Schools and organizations across the state have begun service-learning projects to benefit wildlife and the environment with the help of Texas Healthy Habitats Grants. A total of $225,000 in Texas Healthy Habitats Grants were awarded to 15 different schools and non-profit youth organizations across the state, including near Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, Bryan, Lubbock and other cities. Each organization received up to $15,000.
Learn and Serve Texas Grant
Austin, TX, June 18, 2009 – The Texas Center for Service-Learning announced recently that it will award $990,000 in Learn and Serve Texas grants for service-learning programs that will involve nearly 60,000 students across the state of Texas in meaningful service projects that will enrich learning and strengthen communities. These grants are funded through the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service and are awarded as part of a three-year grant cycle, with continuation funding projected through August 2012.
Texas Healthy Habitats Grants Awarded to 15 Texas Schools, Nonprofits
Student Projects Will Help Implement Texas Wildlife Action Plan
AUSTIN, Texas – A total of $225,000 in Texas Healthy Habitats Grants has been awarded to 15 different schools and non-profit youth organizations across the state, including schools in or near Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, Bryan, Lubbock and other cities. Each organization will receive up to $15,000 to support students doing service-learning projects to benefit wildlife and the environment.