Wild Nature Grants and Fundraising Fund. The learning of young people as citizen environmental scientists. Celebrate urban birds, Cornell Ornithology Laboratory. Daily Grants for Capacity Development - National Foundation for Environmental Education.
Holden grants are available to individuals or non-profit groups for conservation projects or conservation education. For-profit projects are not considered for Holden Scholarships. Each proposal will be evaluated for its effect on the preservation of biodiversity, with an emphasis on bird populations, other threatened species and habitat quality. Conservation projects must improve biodiversity by improving, protecting or restoring habitat or by collecting information that allows more informed decisions about conservation to be made.
Priority is given to habitat restoration projects that affect areas of conservation importance, including areas important to birds, and to species of conservation concern, including species on the Audubon watch list. For example, the Sourland Mountains, including Baldpate Mountain, would be an area of interest for conservation because of their great biodiversity and the presence of flora and fauna that are not found anywhere else in our area, including the higher concentration of nearctic and neotropical breeding migrants in central New Jersey. The FSAS grant committee prioritizes applications for grants that benefit wildlife. Our priorities include birds and bird habitats.
Additional priorities include having an educational component for children and supporting projects within the Audubon Society region of Fort Worth, including Denton, Johnson, Parker and Tarrant counties. Below are two examples of grants that the Audubon Society of Fort Worth has awarded to support the work of community organizations that share a mission similar to ours. Several years ago, the Audubon Society of Washington Crossing received a generous bequest from the late Polly Holden for conservation and environmental education.
