Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program 2025 (up to $1,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program 2025. The Wild Wonder Foundation is devoted to encouraging nature connection and conservation by means of consideration, curiosity, artwork, science, and group.

Through the Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program, they have fun the creativity within the international nature journaling group, generate new outreach concepts, and provide help to people main initiatives that carry nature journaling to new audiences, particularly these which might be at present underserved.

Grant

• Grant awards will vary from $250-$1,000 USD. Approximately 20 grants per yr (roughly 10 per grant cycle) can be awarded.

Eligibility

The Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program is open to people and teams wherever on this planet with an concept that makes use of nature journaling to encourage others. You could be:

• An educator or Teacher trying to carry nature journaling into school rooms or coaching workshops.
• A group Leader or Organizer beginning a brand new nature journaling membership in your space.
• An artist, Scientist, or Writer creating books, web sites, or publications tied to nature journaling.
• A pupil or Emerging Leader piloting a brand new outreach or conservation venture.
• Passionate Naturalist or Volunteer merely keen to share the apply with neighbors, households, or native organizations.

Eligible Projects

The Micro Grant Program goals to help quite a lot of initiatives wherever on this planet. Especially inspired are initiatives that prepare educators how to educate nature journaling, thereby amplifying the work supported by the grant. Eligible initiatives can embrace however usually are not restricted to:

• Nature journaling occasions, trainings, courses, publications, web sites, and many others.
• Launching a brand new nature journaling membership or supporting an current membership.
• Other initiatives or supplies that assist individuals have interaction with nature and nature journaling, enhance the variety of new nature journalers, and/or broaden the capability for individuals to educate others.

Application

They recommend you put together the data under in utilizing the application worksheet so you possibly can draft and polish it there earlier than submitting your application through the net type.

• Contact data: title, e-mail, telephone, and many others.
• Geographic area of the venture: metropolis, state, province, district, or area (EXAMPLE: Fresno, CA, USA.  Fresno is a medium-sized metropolis in an agricultural area of central California.)
• Your background and expertise that’s related to the venture: Explain why you might be certified to lead this venture and why you might be making use of for a grant to help this work.
• Project abstract: summarize your venture in 1-2 sentences. This ought to be a really transient overview.
• Project narrative: Describe the venture in roughly 500 phrases. Include what you’ll do (motion objects), who your work will attain (viewers), and the way you’ll publicize the venture. If your venture will embrace collaboration with any teams, organizations, and/or faculties, embrace that right here.
• Timeline: Include an in depth timeline that helps your narrative and demonstrates how your venture can be accomplished throughout the required timeframe.
• Metrics: How many individuals do you anticipate your venture reaching all through this venture timeframe? Please additionally embrace how you’ll measure the impression, attain, and consequence.
• References: share the title and call data for 2 references who’re aware of your work and ready to focus on why they help your grant application.
• Budget: present an in depth finances, together with all projected prices, in addition to the whole requested for this grant.
• Financial or In-Kind Contributions: listing any donated funds, time, supplies, or house to your venture. NOTE: Successful purposes at all times embrace a while or materials dedication from you.
• Amount of Grant Requested.

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For extra data, go to Wild Wonder Micro Grant.