$5,000 will get anybody’s attention, but this offer includes the warm-and-fuzzy knowledge that you’re helping kids be environmentally-conscious for their future.

The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) only has a few rules to qualify; applications must come from teachers who:

• • Teach 9th-12th grades in a U.S. public or private school
• • Have at least three years of teaching experience
• • Apply for one grant category
• • Are not serving as advisors to NEEF

Single Course Grants – for teachers in any subject area who want to infuse more environmental content into their coursework – $5,000 grants are available.

Cross-Curricular Grants – for a team of 3 or more teachers who want to integrate environmental themes across courses – $10,000 grants are available.

Visit the site to learn more, but that sounds like one heck of an incentive to me.

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