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Educators are often seeking grant funding to help support their horticulture and garden programs in schools and youth programs. Below are links to grants for K-12 educators that may meet your needs. Contact each organization for more information.

Have a grant to add? Contact Seed Your Future at [email protected].

American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture -

This grant provides teachers with the means to replicate projects found in the Winning Projects Guide found on the Kids In Need website, www.kinf.org, in their own classrooms. These projects make creative use of common teaching aids, approach curriculum from an imaginative angle, or tie nontraditional concepts together for the purpose of illustrating commonalities. Grants range from $100 to $500.

The American Heart Association works with schools to find local sponsors to help fund the installation of raised bed gardens in school.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation - Classroom Grants Program

Each school year, AIAA awards grants of up to $500 to worthy projects that significantly influence student learning.

Aquaponics USA - Grants

Grants for your school to set up an aquaponics system.

Association of American Educators - Classroom Grants

Classroom grants can be used for a variety of projects and materials, including but not limited to books, software, calculators, supplies, audio-visual equipment, and lab materials.

The Bee Cause Project - Grants

Grants support K-12 schools and nonprofits through the process to install and maintain their own educational hives and pollinator curriculum.

Through Jumpstart, Big Green provides schools with gardens and grants to aid educational gardening programs. Awardees will receive garden beds, seeds, soil, irrigation, and storage or grants to invest in their community programs.

Bonnie's provides free mega-cabbage plants to 3rd grade teachers who want to participate. Students grow the cabbages and submit pictures and measurements of their harvest to be considered for a $1,000 scholarship.

Captain Planet Foundation - Grants

Educators, both K-12 classroom and informal, who are interested in receiving support for students to design and implement hands-on environmental solutions are eligible for project funding.

This award is open to any K-12 science teacher who incorporates innovative agricultural science activities into their existing science curriculum. The awardee will receive a $2,500 grant for their classroom/program, $1,000 travel expenses to attend the NSTA national conference on science education, mentoring with a Corteva scientist, classroom resources from Corteva, and access to a Corteva product plant or research facility.

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation - Grants

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is dedicated to planting fruitful trees and plants to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. FTPF programs strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations, at places such as community gardens, public schools, city/state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries.

Fund for Teachers - Grants

This program provides provides educators with resources needed to pursue self-designed professional learning experiences. FFT grants are used for an unlimited variety of projects; all designed to create enhanced learning environments for teachers, their students and their school communities.

Gardener's Supply Company and the Green Education Foundation have teamed up on an exciting funding opportunity for established youth garden projects nationwide. The organizations are calling on schools and youth groups to submit chronicles of their garden projects in a race to win a $500 prize. The award is designed to support the continued sustainability of an exceptional youth garden program that has demonstrated success, and has impacted the lives of kids and their community.

GEF and Gardener's Supply Company have teamed up on an exciting funding opportunity for established youth garden projects nationwide. The organizations are calling on schools and youth groups to submit chronicles of their garden projects in a race to win a $500 prize. The award is designed to support the continued sustainability of an exceptional youth garden program that has demonstrated success, and has impacted the lives of kids and their community.

The Herb Society of America - Grants

As a recipient from the estate of Donald Samull, The Herb Society of America established an herb garden grant for elementary school classes grades 3 through 6. These grants ensure that the use of herbs in teaching elementary school students will continue for years to come, a tradition Mr. Samull - an elementary school teacher - used in his classroom to engage and inspire his 3rd-6th grade students.

U.S. educators, individuals and group leaders are invited to apply for a $200 mini-grant to start, support, or celebrate a community-action project to positively impact people, other animals, and/or the environment.

KidsGardening.org - Grants

KidsGardening offers a variety of grants to new and existing youth garden programs across the nation. Each funding opportunity has its own timeline, defining features, eligibility requirements, and reporting expectations.

Offering a spring and fall grant cycle, Lowe's Toolbox for Education Grants funds a wide range of projects for schools, including support for gardening programs.

To inspire a new generation of inventors, Lemelson-MIT grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems of their own choosing. STEM educators from the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and territories of the U.S. may apply. Lemelson-MIT Excite Awards are also available for K-12 educators.

National Agriculture in the Classroom - Grants

Provides $500 grants each year to Pre-K-12 teachers who have classroom projects that use agricultural concepts to teach reading, writing, math, science, social studies and more. Eligible projects include classroom and schoolyard gardens, embryology projects, aquaculture projects and agricultural literacy reading programs.

Native American schools can apply for mini-grants to expand and promote farm to school in their communities.

Living to Serve Grants provide an opportunity for FFA chapters and state FFA associations/foundations to seek funding to support various types of service projects through a competitive application process.

In partnership with a local NGC club, schools and other programs can apply for planning and planting Pollinator Gardens. Grants are available for projects that include educational materials on the vital role pollinators play in nature and youth involvement in planning and planting gardens providing nesting and food sources for pollinators.

This program makes garden grants, garden kits, educational curriculum, and garden training available to all Head Start programs with the goal of creating more edible gardens for young children and their families.

This award is open to any K-12 science teacher who incorporates innovative agricultural science activities into their existing science curriculum. The awardee will receive a $2,500 grant for their classroom/program, $1,000 travel expenses to attend the NSTA national conference on science education, mentoring with a Corteva scientist, classroom resources from Corteva, and access to a Corteva product plant or research facility.

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Farm to School Grants

The Farm to School Grant Program ("F2S") provides grants on a competitive basis to increase local food procurement for school meal programs and expand educational agriculture and gardening activities. F2S grants can be used for training and technical assistance, planning, purchasing equipment, developing school gardens, developing partnerships, and implementing farm to school programs.

NWF offers free native trees for restoration projects and community events planned in coordination with local NWF partners.

These grants will be awarded for a six-month grant period beginning in May-June 2020 and for amounts of $1,500 to $5,000. Applicants requesting funding should be prepared to begin their project during the summer of 2020.

Our contests and classroom grants allow you or your students to earn prizes and recognition while reinforcing important concepts related to soil science and sustainable agriculture.

Since 1992, Project Learning Tree has offered GreenWorks! grants to schools and youth organizations for environmental service-learning projects that link classroom learning to the real world. Students implement an action project they help design to green their school or to improve an aspect of their neighborhood's environment.

State Specific Grants

All states in the U.S. have charitable organizations that provide grants to school and youth programs. To search for opportunities in your state, start with organizations such as: state nursery and landscape organizations, state department of education, your state's largest corporations, state and local gardening organizations and clubs, state and local fraternal and civic organizations, and don't forget to reach out to local businesses in your own community.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - Youth Educator Grants

Youth Educator grants support projects by youth educators that encourage youth to try sustainable practices and explore sustainable agriculture as a viable career option.

Target stores award field trip grants to K-12 schools nationwide. Each grant is valued at $700.

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation - Gro 1000 Grants

Know of a community garden or green space project in need of funding? Apply today for a GRO1000 Grassroots Grant supported by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation. Grants will be awarded to over 120 non-profit groups across the country for impactful, community-driven garden projects.

Toshiba America Foundation - Grants

Toshiba America Foundation has grants for K-5 programs, and 6-12 programs.

This program awards funding for innovative science proposals submitted by educators in three areas: environmental science; physical science; and integrating literacy & science.

USDA-NIFA grants target teachers from primary grades to high school. They help educators give students a foundation in math and science relating to agriculture.

Ag In the Classroom: Promotes science literacy state-by-state

Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA): Contains special funding options for K-12 teachers.

National Awards Program for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences: Recognizes talented educators who inspire students in agriculture.

Grants are a for K-12 public or nonprofit private school, charter school, community/junior college, state/private college or university; or a church or other faith-based organization, and range from $250-$5,000. Proposed projects must benefit the community at large.

Our Garden Grant program provides a $3,000 monetary grant to support a new or existing edible educational garden at either a: K-12 School, 501(c)(3) Non-profit working in partnership with a K-12 school, or a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Wild Ones offers funding and plants to schools for development of learning spaces featuring native plants and focused on environmental education.

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Educators are often seeking grant funding to help support their horticulture and garden programs in schools and youth programs. Below are links to grants for K-12 educators that may meet your needs. Contact each organization for more information. Have a grant to add? Contact Seed Your Future at [email protected].

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KidsGardening - Helping Young Minds Grow

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You can qualify for the 2025 Bee Grant if you are a school or non-profit that serves at least 10 students in grades K-12 in the United States or Canada. Yes, that’s it – no further eligibility requirement is necessary!

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Captain Planet foundation- deadline December 31 grants from 250$ to 2500 to school 

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Growing food improves nutrition security and mental health, increases time spent outdoors, and cultivates a deeper appreciation for our collective impact on the climate.

Special Projects and Experiments

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Growing food improves nutrition security and mental health, increases time spent outdoors, and cultivates a deeper appreciation for our collective impact on the climate. Special Projects and Experiments