Past Mini-Grant Recipients

2006 Mini Grant Recipients
Hoo Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Center, Durand
Funding will enable Hoo Haven to provide their Raptor Ambassador Program to a school in the Harlem School District. Hoo Haven’s “in-school field trip” brings birds to the classroom, providing a cost-effective alternative to reinforce science curriculum.

Girl Scouts-Prairie Winds, INC Brownie Troop #211, Villa Park
The Brownie Troop from Ardmore Elementary School received $50.00 to attend the ‘Living with Wildlife’ program at Willowbrook Wildlife Center. The troop intends to use this program as an educational tool to help plan, plant and maintain a wildlife garden in Villa Park.

North School, Villa Park
Money used to enhance the W.O.R.M. Project ( Worms to Organic Recycling Material) which allows North School’s recycling club to help students understand the importance of vermicomposting. The project uses leftovers from staff and students lunches which is vermicomposted and returned to the flowerbeds in the school’s courtyard.

Take Learning Outdoors, Rushville
Funding will be used to create birding trail stations on topics such as bird songs/calls, nesting behaviors, size and shape comparisons and beginning identifying techniques. The stations will teach beginning birding to children and adults.

Ridgeview Elementary School, Mclean
Funding will be used to purchase the book ‘Flute’s Journey, the Life of a Wood Thrush’. The books will be used with fifth graders to promote an understanding of migration and what we can do to preserve the habitats of migrating birds.

Girl Scouts- Green Meadows Council, Urbana
S.M.O.R.E.S (Science and Math Outside for Real Experience for Scouts) received funding to design a year round interactive learning experience to teach girls about microscopic organisms and how ecological balances effect a global environment.

North Elementary School, Marshall
Grant money will be used to purchase prairie seeds and gardening equipment. The third and fifth grade students will help to establish a prairie garden at North Elementary School.

Albers Elementary School, Albers
Students will attend the Land for Learning Institute and participate in a biodiversity study. The biodiversity study will allow students to explore biotic and abiotic factors in sourthern Illinois ecosystems.

2005 Mini Grant Recipients
Unity Point School, Carbondale
Mrs. Kerry Glenn - $182

Parrish School, Carbondale
Ms. Sara Sellers - $190.16

LaSalle County Historical Museum, Utica
Nancy Maze and Jen Guest - $200

New Central Elementary School, Havana
Cindy McGrew - $154.75

Oakbrook Terrace Park District, Oakbrook Terrace
Becky Lambert - $200

Carterville Intermediate Schoo, Carterville
Jan Campbell - $200

New Central Elementary School, Havana
Vicki Bonnet - $185.80