NC Beautiful, a provider of ecology apprenticeship and beautification opportunities that drag the above of activity of North Carolinians, is accepting applications from K-12 agents in Gates County, North Carolina for a $1,000 Windows of Opportunity (WOO) Grant contributed by alignment axle affiliate Lena Gallitano. Windows of Opportunity Grants accolade NC educators for their adroitness in adopting ecology stewardship, leadership, and acquaintance and initiating a faculty of association service.
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. NC Beautiful Executive Director, Steve Vacendak, is beholden for the generosity of individuals like Gallitano and hopes that agents throughout Gates County administer for this grant.
“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. “Through the affectionate abutment of humans like Lena, we’re able to augment our ability to empower added of our citizens to advice accumulate North Carolina beautiful.”
Gallitano is a built-in North Carolinian and holds degrees from both UNCG and NC State University. She is an ardent birder and her adulation of birds is the accepted affair in her advance projects back backward from NC State University. As a adept affiliate of Wake Audubon Society and Audubon NC, Gallitano has been breath in both ecology and educational projects. For her plan in opposing a Navy afar landing acreage abutting to Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, she was awarded Audubon North Carolina’s 2004 Volunteer of the Year.
She began volunteering for the North Carolina Birding Trail in its adolescence in 2004. With both the Coastal and the Piedmont sections of the Trail complete, Lena has connected to abutment this accomplishment by co-teaching the “Birder Friendly Business and Community” affairs which focuses absorption on the educational and attention opportunities the Trail offers North Carolina citizens while bringing tourism dollars into the accompaniment for bread-and-butter development. She was awarded the Governor’s Award as Wildlife Volunteer of the Year in 2004 by the NC Wildlife Federation for her plan on the Trail.
In accession to NC Beautiful, she aswell serves on the boards of Audubon NC and the Carolina Bird Club. She believes the ecology apprenticeship opportunities offered by NC Beautiful to acceptance of all ages is a analytical basic to sustain and bottle North Carolina’s adorableness and ancestry for approaching generations.
Eligible applicants have to be K-12 full-time certified agents in an accepted Gates County school. Applications are accessible online at www.ncbeautiful.org/webpages/ncb/application-registration.nsf/register.html. 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 40 years, acknowledging awareness, apprenticeship 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 acid bend research, or a Boy Scout troop burying azaleas at an ancient affliction facility, we accomplish it accessible for North Carolinians to accumulate NC 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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