Celebrate Urban Birds Invites Applications for Mini-Grants to Fund Community Events
- This Grant has a location requirement.
Celebrate Urban Birds, a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, invites organizations and educators to apply for mini-grants to help fund neighborhood events in communities across the United States.
Celebrate Urban Birds is a free year-round project that collects information from everyday people about sixteen species of birds. Participants spend ten minutes watching birds in their neighborhood and report their observations online at the program's Web site. This information helps scientists better understand how birds survive in cities and make use of green spaces, including parks and gardens.
Celebrate Urban Birds neighborhood events or projects feature activities involving birds, community service, art, greening, and science. Participants must collect citizen science data. Mini-grants could be used to support a bird-activity day at a local museum, after school, library, or community center, or fund art and gardening activities at a club, business, school, senior center, or neighborhood. Organizations working with underserved communities are strongly encouraged to apply. No experience with birds is required.
Mini-grant amounts average $250 to $500 each.
