Planet Connect Grants
Ten high school students with great ideas and $1,000 will each be undertaking projects including building organic gardens, producing model environmental houses and initiating pilot programs for sustainable lunch trays in their school cafeterias after being selected as this year’s Planet Connect grant winners. Read the press release.
The Business Case for Environmental and Sustainability Employee Education
A new study by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) finds that environmental and sustainability (E&S) employee education and engagement initiatives help companies achieve a range of business objectives from attracting and retaining employees to boosting the bottom line.
Annual Report Now Available
The National Environmental Education Foundation is in the right place at the right time - our program and organizational growth reinforces increasing interest among the American public in conservation and service, at home, at school, in the community and in nature. Our fiscal year 2008 annual report, Making Connections, is now available.To reduce waste, Making Connections is intended to be read online. Also available is a printable version of the Annual Report.
Daily Digest
News— March 11, 2010
- Las Vegas Sun A consortium of companies announced plans today to develop a plant in the Las Vegas area that would employ about 1,000 people for manufacturing wind turbines.
- Bohemian.com An article on environmentally conscious employees in the workplace highlights NEEF’s "The Business Case for Environmental and Sustainability Employee Education."
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Give to NEEF through the CFC
As a member of Earth Share, an umbrella organization for hundreds of environmental groups, NEEF participates in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). If you are a federal government employee please consider giving to NEEF through the CFC. Our CFC number is 11792.
