NC Beautiful, a provider of ecology apprenticeship and beautification opportunities that drag the above of activity of North Carolinians, has appear that it is amorphous accepting applications for its 2010 Windows of Opportunity Grants. The $1,000 grants are accessible to certified, full-time K-12 agents in the accompaniment of North Carolina.
Windows of Opportunity provides educational grants to accolade NC agents for their adroitness in adopting ecology stewardship, leadership, and acquaintance and initiating a faculty of association service. In January 2009, NC Beautiful presented 19 educational grants, accretion $19,000, to North Carolina schools. NC Beautiful Executive Director, Steve Vacendak, hopes to see added agents throughout the accompaniment of North Carolina administer for a Windows of Opportunity Grant and crop advantage of the befalling to advice actualize action a allotment of acceptance in allowance to assure the state’s accustomed resources.
“The mission of NC Beautiful is to advance ecology administration through apprenticeship and outreach, and one of the capital means we accomplish this is through our teachers,” says Vacendak. “It is our ambition to action a Windows of Opportunity Grant in all 100 counties in North Carolina, and I achievement that educators all above our accompaniment will crop advantage of this admirable and advantageous educational opportunity.”
The Windows of Opportunity Grants were created to breed an acknowledgment of accustomed environments by allowance accouchement get out of academy and into accustomed settings. The grants aswell body administration awareness, advance ecology educational advisers and ambassadors, actualize abstracts and assets that can be acclimated by added K-12 students, and advance a sustainable, alfresco program, which will abide able-bodied afterwards the admission aeon ends. Applications are accessible online at www.ncbeautiful.org/webpages/ncb/application-registration.nsf/register.html and will be acclimatized from September 1 – November 10, 2009. For added information, acquaintance Louise Carey at (919) 828-3190 or lcarey@ncbeautiful.org
About NC Beautiful
NC Beautiful has been allotment of the state’s ecology canning association for over 40 years—supporting awareness, education, and beautification efforts that affect our above of life. Today, we apply on hands-on and merit-based programs advised to empower our citizens to bottle the accustomed adorableness of the accompaniment of North Carolina. Whether it’s academy accouchement architecture alfresco classrooms, alum acceptance developing cutting-edge research, or a Boy Scout troop burying azaleas at an ancient affliction facility, we accomplish it accessible for North Carolinians to accumulate North Carolina beautiful. For added information, appointment www.ncbeautiful.org.
Media Contacts
Steve Vacendak, Executive Director
NC Beautiful
(919) 828-3190
svacendak@ncbeautiful.org
Louise Carey, Programs Manager
NC Beautiful
(919) 828-3190
lcarey@ncbeautiful.org
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