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Grants and Funding (listed in order of deadline)

• Project Learning Tree Greenworks! Grants for Community-Based Environmental Projects
• 5th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability - Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
• Do Something Offering Weekly Grants for Young Social Entrepreneurs

Project Learning Tree Greenworks! Grants for Community-Based Environmental Projects

Project Learning Tree (PLT) is the environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation. The GreenWorks! grant program is PLT's service-learning program that engages PLT educators and their students with their local community in "learning-by-doing" neighborhood improvement projects. Elementary through college-age students in 20 different states design native plant gardens, restore streams and riparian habitat, construct hiking trails, start composting projects, and investigate alternative sources of energy. Proposals are due on October 31, 2007.  Grants up to $5,000 are available. To learn more, visit http://www.plt.org/cms/pages/47_191_0.html.

5th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability - Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of the P3 Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving sustainability. The P3 competition highlights people, prosperity, and the planet - the three pillars of sustainability. The P3 Awards program is a partnership between the public and private sectors to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the planet, and improved quality of life for its people. The EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world while moving towards the goal of sustainability. Please see the P3 website at URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_p3.html for more details about this program.

Deadline is December 20, 2007.

Do Something Offering Weekly Grants for Young Social Entrepreneurs
Deadline: Rolling

Do Something is a not-for-profit organization that works to inspire, support, and celebrate young social entrepreneurs and community activists. The organization is accepting applications for the following grant programs:

• Do Something and GameStop are offering grants of $500 each to young people, age 25 and younger, in the United States or Canada who have a great idea for a community-action project and need support to turn their idea into reality. GameStop grants are given out weekly.
• Do Something and Plum TV are offering grants of $500 each to social entrepreneurs, age 25 and younger, in the U.S. who have recently created a sustainable project, program, or organization and need funding to further the growth  and success of their program. Plum TV grants are given out weekly.

Visit the Do Something website at www.dosomething.org for complete program information and application forms.

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