Get Funding for Educational Programs & Park Partnerships
Posted: December 13, 2011
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Summary
Nonprofits and organizations with established park partnerships can receive funding to deliver hands-on environmental education programs within National Parks. This grant supports initiatives that connect diverse communities with natural resources and promote sustainable living.
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The services proposed under this Single Source Cooperative Agreement will be provided by Slide Ranch Inc, 2025 Shoreline Highway Muir Beach, CA 94965 who is a Park Partner with Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a unit of the U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service. Slide Ranch will provide opportunities for socioeconomically diverse populations to participate in hands-on activities at a teaching farm within Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) with the objectives of enhancing participants’ understanding of the natural, cultural, and recreational resources available to them through their National Parks and encouraging them to address environmental challenges in their daily lives and within their communities. Slide Ranch will manage organic gardens, animals and lands and use the food, its location and its sustainable model of operation to teach participants about their inherent connection to ecosystems, the earth, and the people who farm it.
The on-hand participation programs will be customized around the historic coastal dairy and GGNRA’s resources to include outdoor education, service learning day trips and educational hiking trips.