NC Beautiful has appear that the alignment has accustomed a $40,000 Windows of Opportunity Grant from The Duke Energy Foundation. Windows of Opportunity Grants were created to breed an acknowledgment of accustomed environments by allowance K-12 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 students, and advance a acceptable alfresco program.
The Duke Energy Foundation improves the above of activity in the communities it serves through advance efforts, ability through leadership, and banking abutment through grants to accommodating organizations. At the amount of The Duke Energy Foundation is its charge to the community, with a focus in three areas: Environment and Energy Efficiency, Economic Development, and Community Vitality. Inclusiveness/diversity and employee/retiree advance initiatives are chip into all three areas of focus .
Stick Williams, SVP of EH&S and admiral of The Duke Energy Foundation, says that the Foundation has enjoyed a acceptable and abiding accord with NC Beautiful and that extensive out to accouchement now about the accent of ecology canning is a complete investment for the approaching . “Supporting ecology apprenticeship in the classroom can accelerate the minds of abounding acceptance to analyze and accompany approaching careers in science,” says Williams. “The Foundation’s addition to NC Beautiful is an archetype of how one admission can become a agitator for abounding to abstraction and acquaintance ecology education.”
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. Over the endure two years, NC Beautiful has presented 51 educational grants, accretion $51,000, to schools throughout North Carolina. The Duke Energy Foundation Windows of Opportunity Grant is accessible to North Carolina K-12 educators amid aural accommodating Duke Energy account areas. NC Beautiful Executive Director, Steve Vacendak, says that in a time if educators are disturbing with akin resources, the generosity of supporters like The Duke Energy Foundation is added important than ever.
“Words cannot accurate how beholden we are to The Duke Energy Foundation,” says Vacendak. “This admission is one of the better NC Beautiful has accustomed in our history. These grants will accept an absurd appulse on our educators’ adeptness to access the abstracts they charge in adjustment to brainwash their acceptance on the accent of accustomed preservation. Through the cutting generosity of The Duke Energy Foundation, we’ll be able to augment our ability to empower added of our citizens to advice accumulate North Carolina beautiful.”
Duke Energy Manager of Sports Venues and NC Beautiful Director, Robin Nicholson, says that NC Beautiful is a absorption of the ecology focus Duke Energy has maintained for years and is an aperture for connected advance in the assorted initiatives in which Duke Energy is involved. “The Windows of Opportunity Grants are an accomplished way to advice advance the ecology acquaintance of the adolescence of our accompaniment and advice them added accept the appulse we all accept on the environment.”
Grant applications will be acclimatized until January 30, 2010. Applicants have to be K-12 full-time certified agents amid aural applicative Duke Energy account areas. To annals for an appliance or to analysis across eligibility, appointment http://www.ncbeautiful.org/programs/energy.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
Jason Walls, Communications Manager
Duke Energy
(704) 382-5559
Jason.Walls@duke-energy.com
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