American Rivers

In Progress
Community Education Grant
Build a stronger, more diverse team of river stewards and advocates through a rafting and river education trip for Latine youth on the North Fork Nooksack River in June 2022.
The Foundation’s grants support programs and activities that preserve and protect environments and living organisms of the Salish Sea region. We are dedicated to working in partnership with other like-minded organizations, and are proud to present the recipients of our grants.
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Build a stronger, more diverse team of river stewards and advocates through a rafting and river education trip for Latine youth on the North Fork Nooksack River in June 2022.
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Extend the tour and expand the venues of Braided River’s multimedia traveling exhibit as part of an innovative citizen action campaign to celebrate, protect, and restore Puget Sound. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Support the third season of Raincoast’s interactive online education program, Coastal Insights, as well as a Student Innovation Contest in partnership with Take A Stand: Youth for Conservation. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Provide Whatcom County K-8 students with hands-on, locally relevant learning activities focused on energy efficiency, water conservation, waste reduction and recycling, and climate science and impacts. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Expand the Institute’s Exploring Plankton! lendable backpacks program by creating three new backpacks that will be available to classrooms and the public. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Offer diverse Seattle youth a paid opportunity to gain environmental education and workforce development skills through hands-on conservation projects at local parks and green spaces. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Enable the Vashon Nature Center to participate in an on-going community science effort to estimate wildlife population sizes for black bear, cougar, black-tailed deer, Roosevelt elk, bobcat, and coyote throughout the Salish Sea region. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Reduce threats to the survival of the critically-endangered Southern Resident orcas by supporting public conservation education work on Orca Month and the Give Them Space campaign. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Support a gathering of more than 200 Salish Sea Ecoregion land conservation practitioners at the 2022 Northwest Land Camp, and underwrite a six-part Equitable Communications in Land Conservation workshop series. Read More »
In Progress
Paul Wiseman Grant
Provide Land Labs sessions to approximately 300 students at Mountain View Middle School. The Land Labs program uses standards-based curriculum to connect students to the land and cultivate stewardship values in the next generation. Read More »
In Progress
Paul Wiseman Grant
Develop an educational toolkit for the Foodlands Corridor Restoration Program, in partnership with local Indigenous communities and agricultural landholders. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Expand an immersive science education pilot project for high school students using virtual reality to connect students with the local marine food web, to be available to schools throughout Washington state. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Promote education, engagement and stewardship to help improve the region’s habitat conditions for the Coastal Cutthroat Trout through a speaker’s education series. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Create a new interactive curriculum on ecological forestry for an estimated 2,700 students from the densely urban Highline School District. The project will help deepen the students’ connection to the forested hinterlands of the Salish Sea watershed. Read More »
In Progress
Community Education Grant
Double the number of K-12 students who can participate in field trips that provide education about estuarine ecology and conservation, include a forest walk and observations of saltwater and freshwater wetland ecosystems. Read More »