Celebrate Urban Birds minigrants

Celebrate Urban Birds invites organizations, educators, and youth to apply for mini-grants to help fund creative neighborhood events. All mini-grant applicants are offered free materials and goodies to support their events (even if their proposals are not funded), and awarded mini-grants average between $100-$500. The deadline is December 15th.
Winning applications will:

• Hold a Celebrate Urban Birds event in 2013
• introduce the public/youth to birds
• do the 10-minute Celebrate Urban Bird observation with the people in your group, at your event, and report back to us at the Lab of Ornithology, either by paper forms or online
• distribute Celebrate Urban Birds kits (with posters, seeds for planting, and more)
• integrate the arts
• integrate gardening/habitat creation
• get people outside
• Have the opportunity to participate in a videoconference or phone call to understand requirements, payment schedule, and documentation of the Celebrate Urban Birds minigrant 2013 award
• Submit a short final report and share pictures for which you have photo release.  

Access and fill out the application here.

Email (urbanbirds@cornell.edu) or call (607-254-2455) to Celebrate Urban Birds program with any questions or concerns. You can also explore frequently asked questions about mini-grants here.