PRIDE

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Eastern Kentucky PRIDE awarded 49 grants totaling $207,413 through the 2007 PRIDE Environmental Education Grant Program. Schools and nonprofit organizations will use the grants for hands-on learning projects that will benefit 20,172 students across southern and eastern Kentucky during the current school year. Grant recipients that start service-oriented PRIDE Clubs will receive a $500 bonus, bringing PRIDE’s potential investment in environmental education this year to more than $230,000.

A list of all grant recipients is at the bottom of this page.

The grants will be used to teach good stewardship in a variety of ways. For example, the McCreary County Extension Service will use its grant to host a three-day, two-night environmental camp at J.M. Feltner 4-H Camp in London. At the camp 100 seventh-graders from McCreary County Middle School will get their “feet wet and hands dirty” as they are “immersed in environmental education,” according to the grant application.

“I want to congratulate our grant recipients, as well as thank them for going the extra mile for their students,” said Jennifer Johnson, PRIDE education director. “These students and educators put much time, hard work and creativity into these grant projects. The educators know it’s important to offer fun, hands-on environmental lessons that will last a life time.”

“With this year’s grant awards, the number of students influenced by PRIDE grants will exceed 500,000,” said Karen Engle, PRIDE president and chief executive officer. “That is an impressive milestone to surpass just as PRIDE is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It’s exciting to imagine how these students will change our environment for the better since they have grown up learning why and how to care for nature.”

PRIDE has awarded 837 Environmental Education Grants totaling $3,561,305 since 1998. The grants have benefited 506,564 students over the past 10 years, according to the estimates reported by grant applicants. The grants have been used to start 35 school-wide recycling projects and build 351 outdoor classrooms, 105 greenhouses, and 45 wetlands.

The PRIDE Environmental Education Grant Program awards up to $5,000 annually to schools and nonprofit organizations. The grants support projects that help young people understand the importance of a clean environment, personal responsibility and community pride. Grant recipients must match the grants with monetary or in-kind contributions worth 25 percent of the grant amount.

Promoting environmental education is the mission of Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, a nonprofit organization that serves 38 counties in southern and eastern Kentucky. PRIDE also encourages and assists communities to improve water quality and clean up solid waste problems. PRIDE, which is funded by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was founded in 1997 by Congressman Hal Rogers (KY-5) and Kentucky Environmental Protection Secretary James Bickford.

For more information, please call the PRIDE office, toll free, at 888.577.4339.

GRANT RECIPIENTS, BY COUNTY
(Note: Only the primary project is listed. Other activities may also be planned for the grant funds.)

Bell
- Frakes School Center: $4,000 to enhance greenhouse
- Yellow Creek School Center: $3,000 to buy environmental curriculum
- Saint Julian Parish School: $3,520 to construct greenhouse

Breathitt
- Highland-Turner Elementary: $4,250 to construct outdoor classroom
- Mt. Carmel Elementary School: $4,575 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Rousseau Elementary: $4,500 to construct outdoor classroom

Casey
- Casey County High School: $2,689 to start recycling program

Clay
- Manchester Elementary: $4,500 to construct greenhouse

Floyd
- May Valley Elementary: $4,500 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Prestonsburg Elementary: $4,050 to enhance outdoor classroom

Harlan
- Pine Mountain Settlement School: $2,831 to buy educational resources

Johnson
- Paintsville Elementary School: $3,195 to enhance greenhouse
- Porter Elementary School: $5,000 to construct outdoor classroom
- Paintsville Middle School: $5,000 to construct greenhouse

Knox
- Flat Lick Elementary: $4,700 to enhance outdoor classroom
- St. Camillus Academy: $4,500 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Knox County Fiscal Court: $5,000 to construct outdoor classroom shelter

Laurel
- Cold Hill Elementary: $4,250 to buy environmental curriculum
- North Laurel Middle School: $3,630 to enhance outdoor classroom

Lee
- Beattyville Elementary School: $4,500 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Southside Elementary: $4,500 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Lee County Middle School: $4,000 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Kentucky River Community Care, Inc: $4,500 to construct outdoor classroom

Leslie
- Leslie County High and Leslie County Middle School: $5,000 to enhance outdoor classroom

Letcher
- Letcher County Central High School: $5,000 to construct wetland

McCreary
- Pine Knot Primary School: $5,000 to construct greenhouse
- Pine Knot Intermediate School: $3,000 to construct outdoor classroom
- McCreary County Extension Service: $2,775 to host environmental camp

Monroe
- Gamaliel Elementary: $4,000 to enhance outdoor classroom

Morgan
- Woodsbend Youth Development Center: $5,000 to construct greenhouse

Owsley
- Owsley County Elementary School: $5,000 to enhance outdoor classroom

Perry
- Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative: $5,000 to offer environmental education program

Pike
- St. Frances of Assisi School: $4,437 to construct greenhouse

Pulaski
- Somerset Independent Schools: $4,500 to enhance recycling program
- Somerset Christian School: $5,000 to construct wetland

Rockcastle
- Mt. Vernon Elementary School: $4,750 to enhance outdoor classroom

Rowan
- Lakeside Christian Academy: $4,500 to construct greenhouse

Russell
- Salem Elementary School: $5,000 to construct outdoor classroom
- Russell County Middle School: $4,855 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Russell County High School: $4,720 to start recycling program
- Friends of Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery: $3,611 to buy environmental resources
- Russell County Conservation District: $1,988 to buy environmental resources

Taylor
- Campbellsville Child Development Center: $2,860 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Campbellsville Middle School: $4,300 to enhance outdoor classroom

Wayne
- Walker Elementary: $3,375 to enhance outdoor classroom

Whitley (Corbin Independent Schools)
- Central Primary: $5,000 to enhance outdoor classroom
- South Elementary School: $3,550 to enhance greenhouse
- Corbin Middle School: $5,000 to enhance outdoor classroom

Wolfe
- Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership, Inc: $5,000 to enhance outdoor classroom

Posted: 18 Nov 2007

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