WASHINGTON FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Supporting environmental education and innovative projects focused on environmental awareness.

 
 

Grant Application Guidelines

Our grants have ranged in size from $200 to $2000. We make grant decisions throughout the year at Board meetings that occur every six to eight weeks.
 
 

Funding Goals

WFFEís primary focus is on environmental education. We are interested in funding the following sorts of projects and organizations:
 

Educational efforts such as workshops, institutes, conferences, and exhibits, which hold the promise of increasing public awareness of, or stimulating productive public debate with respect to, significant environmental issues. Also considered are grants for individual and group scholarships to attend worthwhile conferences and educational programs;

Environmental projects which have one or more of the following features: (a) the project has come together in a way that is instructive, perhaps representing a significant success of grassroots efforts, or the assembly of an unlikely but necessary coalition; (b) the project could have a significant positive effect on public awareness of environmental issues or on the encouragement of other preservation or reclamation efforts; (c) the project will involve imaginative technical approaches that would make its success instructive; (d) the proposed uses of the project site and access to it will result in education about environmental matters;

Writing projects that promise to contribute to the understanding of environmental issues and that seem likely to reach a responsive audience;

Research efforts oriented toward improving the quality of information available to policymakers in government and in the private sector who have the power to make decisions affecting the environment;

Research projects that hold significant promise of providing information needed for intelligent environmental policymaking; and

Start-up funding for new environmental projects and organizations.
 
 

The Application

We are most interested in having you tell us plainly what you hope to accomplish. Your application need not be in any set form, but should contain the following information and descriptions:
 

Names, addresses and phone numbers of persons in your organization who can be contacted for information about the organization and your grant application;

Schedule for the project;

Summary description of your proposed project. We would also find useful any printed information you may have, such as studies, reports or proposals, that will give us a good sense of your project and its environmental benefits;

Any information you have that will help us assess your ability to undertake your described project (e.g., biographies or resumes for key people working on it, references, evidence of past work, copies of brochures or other literature that you may have prepared);

A request for a specific amount of money, which should also describe the total amount of money you think you will need to complete the project, and the other possible sources of money you will rely on if you are requesting a grant from us that is less than the total amount you need. (Your grant from us will not necessarily depend on your having raised all the rest of the money you will need. We do need to know that you have carefully thought through your needs and how you hope to meet them.)
 

In short, we need to know both what you hope to accomplish and that you have a good chance of following through. We are not insisting that you be a highly formal organization with detailed records, or that your documents be professionally prepared. We make grants to both new and long-established groups. We simply need to know that you have a well-thought out plan that fits with our funding objectives and abilities.

Expectations of Grant Recipients

Should you receive a grant, we will expect the following from you:
 

1. A statement of how the money was spent; and

2. A written description of the work you were able to get done, including copies of papers, reports, or studies you generated, and (if appropriate) any photographs of the project site. We would be especially interested in any descriptions of the process used to accomplish the work that might be of use to groups thinking of projects similar to your own. We would also like to know if you would be willing to share your knowledge or expertise with other groups.
 

Please send these materials to: grants@wffe.org

and to

Washington Foundation for the Environment
PO Box 2123
Seattle, WA 9811

 

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