Charlotte Martin Foundation: November 2012 Grant Cycle (Total Awarded: $212,984)
Grantee
Wildlife and Habitat Preservation
Grant Purpose
Audubon Washington
Conserving the Greater Sage‐Grouse Grant Summary
Amount
State
Audubon Washington will coordinate seven Audubon chapters and propose changes for the BLM Spokane District plan to preserve the shrub steppe ecosystem to increase long‐term grouse viability.
Monitoring logging impacts in Mt. Hood Community‐powered science program designed to monitor logging's impact on National Forest
watersheds, soil, wildlife habitat, native plants and microclimates. $5,000 WA
Support Heart of the Rockies Initiative
The initiative will focus on increased funding for private land conservation, capacity building to ensure strategic, sustainable investments, recognition of the initiative as a unique conservation collaboration, updating regional conservation plans.
Wildlife and Habitat Protection Program Protect grizzly bear, lynx, bull trout, fisher, wolverine and other imperiled species from damaging logging projects on the Flathead and Lolo National Forests. $5,000 MT
Keystone Conservation Inc
Predator Conflict Reduction on Open Range
$7,500 MT
Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust
Restoring Native Fish Habitat in the Upper Klamath Basin
Wildlife Habitat Corridor in the Snoqualmie Watershed
Bark
Five Valleys Land Trust Inc
Friends Of The Wild Swan
Stewardship Partners
Convene a forum of ranchers, range riders, agency personnel and community members to develop conservation strategies and best practices that benefit predator species , range health and livestock. Bring together a network of stakeholders to implement science‐based, collaborative, locally‐driven habitat restoration. Partners will restore habitat for endangered Chinook Salmon and Bull Trout in Peoples Creek, a major tributary to the Snoqualmie River in Washington State.
$6,000
OR
$5,000 MT
$5,000
OR
$5,000 WA
Youth Athletics
Disabled Sports USA
Provide Accessible Outdoor Sports for Youth
Multiple partnerships with schools and recreation centers will provide inclusive and accessible outdoor sports opportunities to students with cognitive and physical disabilities. Sports include downhill and Nordic skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, hiking, camping, kayaking, cycling, golf and rock climbing.
$5,000
OR
Girls On The Run‐idaho Inc
$5,000
ID
Homedale Middle School
Expansion of Girls on the Run programs Current program that focuses in Ada County can expand in Canyon and Elmore counties. Uniform and equipment for girls Update uniforms for middle school girls volleyball and basketball uniforms. athletics
Purchase volleyballs and ball rack, basketballs and locking ball racks, starting blocks, shot puts, and discuses for track.
$5,000
ID
Mac Foundation
Soccer Club for middle‐school girls
$5,000
OR
After‐School Soccer Club n for middle school‐aged girls with year‐round play and competition opportunities, coach and player development and skills‐building, parent engagement.
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Grantee
Grant Purpose
Grant Summary
Nome Public Schools
Hoops Program for at‐risk youth
Provide opportunity for at risk boys and girls in grades 7‐8 to learn the fundamentals of basketball, improve physical and life skills, and have fun.
$5,000
Northeast Youth Center
Salem Schools Foundation
Expand youth involvement in sports
Special Olympics Montana Inc
Youth Activation Project & Young Athletes Program
Programs will provide basketball, softball, and kickball for low‐income children in the community. Purchase basic athletic equipment for an out‐of‐school program for teenagers with developmental disabilities in Seattle, Washington.
The Awesome Youth Sports Program, open and affordable to all segments of the community, boys and girls alike, emphasizes sportsmanship, everybody plays, family involvement encouraged, and quality training promoted for coaches and referees,
The Youth Activation Program is a education‐based project that uses sports and education programs to activate young people to develop school communities where all youth are agents of change. Youth Activation Program fosters respect, dignity and advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities
$5,000 WA
Northwest Center
Provide Intramural Program for low income youth
Provide Athletic Equipment
Tualatin Hills Water Polo Club Inc
Support Water Polo in schools
The Tualatin Hills Water Polo Club will administer the water polo programs for all five Beaverton School District high schools as a Community Sponsored Club after the sport was cut from the school programs.
$2,000
Support affordable and accessible sports programs available to all children in University Place, regardless of financial situation or athletic ability. City sports leagues include basketball, flag football, soccer, baseball, and track.
$5,000 WA
In the Broadway Center's Youth Expressive Alternative Response (YEAR) for low income, at‐risk rural youth, master teaching artists work with students to create art addressing alternative ways to deal with aggressive behavior. A public showcase will feature the student creation.
Multi‐media, hands‐on, dramatic, musical, literary lesson based on the children's novel. With The Bushwick Book Club Seattle children create their own original rendition. Cowlitz Youth Language Camp for youth, 7‐17 years old, draws from field interviews with the the last speakers. Youth will create and perform an original song in Salish‐Cowlitz and record CDs of the lessons.
Develop theater classes into a self‐supporting after‐school and summer theater school program in rural area. Each session culminates in student‐initiated performance involving 45‐60 youth participants.
$5,000 WA
University Place Community Supported Affordable and Accessible Youth Athletics Parks And Recreation
Amount
State
AK
$2,659 WA
$5,000
OR
$5,000 MT
OR
Youth Culture
Broadway Center For The Performing Arts
Crafting Expressive Alternative Responses
Childrens Academy
Literary Exloration of the Wizard of Oz
Cowlitz Indian Tribe
Study of Cowlitz Culture and Language
Hamilton Players Inc
Expanding theater program for K‐12 Page 2 of 5
$5,000 WA
$5,000 WA
$5,000 MT
Grantee
Grant Purpose
Harrington School District
Bringing Missoula Children's Theater to MCT will provide live theater to small town and provide children with experience small town
of their own personal success in a theatrical production. Engaging K‐12 students in creating art Off campus, after‐school arts program for elementary and high school students. Workshops range from simple drawing and painting to intricate mask making, mural design, and dance performances. Sessions culminate in student performances and art shows.
Youth music education program
Youth music education in rural and economically disadvantaged area of northeast Oregon includes a strings program in 5 elementary schools, two prep orchestras, Summer Strings Program, Music Lessons and Instrument Scholarships, the Instrument Loan Program, the Young Artists' Competition, the Family and Young People's Concert and School Tour, and acquisition of instruments. $3,500 WA
Rain City Rock Camp For Girls
Empowering Girls Through Music
$5,000 WA
Stone Soup Theater
Developing Young Actors
Thefilmschool
Develop young filmmakers Let There Be Arts Inc
Oregon East Symphony Inc
Treasure Valley Childrens Relief Nursery Cultural Opportunities for low income children
Two Waters Arts Aliance
Extend arts education for children United States Catholic Conference
Expressing Native American Identity Through Art
Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc
Support Youth Orchestra
Ymca Of The Inland Northwest
Band Competition
Grant Summary
Summer camp programs where girls learn to play a musical instrument, then write and perform an original song with a band of their peers.
The programs give young actors the tools they need to succeed on stage. All our student productions are actor‐centered, with less focus on technical aspects of theatre and more on young actor's imaginations. A summer camp for 20 gifted high school students. where they individual film projects, create film art in small groups, and participate in group discussion/activities to learn authentic storytelling and process their life experiences.
Establishing a fund to help children who live in poverty have access local drama and art camps, film‐making and dance classes.
The alliance will place more artists in schools and increase after school art programs.
Create an art program teaching students to use a variety of art media to express their identity as 21st century Native Americans and create an end‐of‐the year art show.
Program provides free, full‐year, in‐depth musical education, mentoring, and orchestral performance experience for young people.
BOBfest (Battle of the Bands), an outdoor community concert features regional high school bands competing for prizes and name recognition among their peers. Organized and executed by a committee of teens, it provides a professional musical venue staffed by adult and teen volunteers. Youth Education
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Amount
State
$5,000
OR
$5,000
OR
$5,000 WA
$5,000 WA
$1,800
OR
$3,000 WA
$5,000 MT
$5,000 WA
$3,000 WA
Grantee
Grant Purpose
Grant Summary
Amount
State
Bitter Root Resource Conservation And Environmental Education for 7th Development Area Incorporated
Graders The Earth Stewardship Program engages seventh graders from six rural towns in classroom lessons on locally relevant science topics, using problem solving and critical thinking skills and inquiry‐based science method. The program culminates with student‐designed service‐learning projects. $5,000 MT
Boys & Girls Club Of The Flathead Reservation
Support youth after‐school program that includes education and athletics
After school programs assist at‐risk youth achieve academic success.
$5,000 MT
Central Elementary School, Greater Albany School District Learn From the Turtles of Thornton Lake Students produce a play about how school children help their friends the turtles convince City Council to protect the turtles' habitat. The students research and produce a power point presentation on turtles and their habitat, keep nature journals, sculpt clay wetlands animals and plants, visit City Hall, learn lines, make scenery and costumes, and grow plants found in turtles' habitat.
$1,725
Earthcorps
Environmental Service Learning
Introducing environmental service‐learning methodology in two elementary schools, one with a majority Na ve American popula on, the other a large La no population resulting in urgently needed stewardship for two natural areas..
$5,000 WA
Institute For Applied Ecology
Develp Student Riparian Stewards
$5,000
OR
Log Cabin Literary Center Inc
Encourage Self discovery through writing
$5,000
ID
Montana Audubon
Connect curriculum to restoration Neighbors For Kids
Expand K‐12 Programs
North Central Washington Audubon Society
Provide kid‐size binoculars for almost real birding
Local organizations partner to engage students in riparian restoration, from design to on‐the‐ground implementation and monitoring.
Writers in the Schools (WITS) and Idaho Writing Camps are programs providing self‐
discovery through active, imaginative writing experiences under the mentorship of professional teaching‐writers. Create a Classroom Stewardship Program in the Audubon Naturalist‐in‐Schools (ANTS) program and provide 4th grade ANTS students the opportunity to participate in a service learning project that will directly connect the field‐based curriculum to a habitat restoration project.
Support programs that include tutoring, youth entrepreneurship, hands‐on experience in applied science techniques, computer Technology; visual arts & crafts and music education.
"What's that Bird?" program, brings artist‐carved wooden birds (life‐size, with field marks) to environmental festivals, nature education centers, and elementary schools, and places them in trees and shrubs. Using simplified field guides and small binoculars, children get an introduction to birds and birdwatching..
Rainier Scholars
Build a community of support for scholars
Engage 6th graders in a 14 month enrichment program designed to increase skills for academic success, build critical thinking and writing skills and prepare students for the rigor of college. Page 4 of 5
OR
$5,000 MT
$5,000
OR
$1,800 WA
$5,000 WA
Grantee
Grant Purpose
Grant Summary
Salem Schools Foundation
Celebrate the Roots of Hip Hop Dance
Taught by professional dancers from the Rainbow Dance theater, the program delivers African‐American history and culture to students in a vibrant, physical, interactive program that highlights the cultural roots of current popular dance. At the end of 18 weeks of instruction, students stage their own performance. $5,000
OR
Shadow Project
Increase Educational Opportunities Special Education Students
Low‐income students with disabilities at four elementary schools and one middle school in a rural community will become confident, engaged learners who take ownership of their goals, help others, and take pride in their accomplishments. $5,000
OR
The Watershed Education Network
Develop understanding of your watershed
In the the School Stream Monitoring Program (SSMP)students get into waders and experience their own backyard streams developing a sense of stewardship that comes from being knee‐deep in their rivers.
$5,000 MT
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State