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Bay Mini-Grants
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| Bay Buddies Crystal Springs Foundation, Inc., Karen Pate |
$7,350.00 |
| Bay Buddies will match 5th grade students from Dunbar Elementary School with 8th grade student mentors from Stewart Middle Magnet School on field trips to the Crystal Springs Preserve. While there, student teams will explore and discover first hand what the importance of the Hillsborough River by conducting science experiments. Project also includes restoration of a degraded shoreline along the river adjacent to the schools. | |
| Growing Success J.S. Robinson Elementary School, Judy Der |
$4,875.00 |
| The 5th grade students at J.S. Robinson Elementary School will teach the Kindergarten students about Florida native species using environmental books, Florida native animal puppets, water testing kits, guest speakers and cameras. Both grades will visit Crystal Springs as well as participate with other students in the Earth Force Summit. | |
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Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful Stormwater Education Campaign Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, Inc., Christine Commerce |
$7,485.00 |
| The proposed project will produce educational materials and purchase air time for radio spots to educate and create awareness of litter problems associated with stormwater pollution throughout the Bay area using a media and marketing toolkit specifically designed for stormwater education. | |
| Learning Gate Watershed Education and Restoration Project Learning Gate Community School |
$800.00 |
| Partial funding of this grant project will allow for removal of invasive plants from an on-site stormwater pond and planting of native vegetation to help teachers illustrate to the students the role of the pond in the health of the watershed and its relationship to Tampa Bay. | |
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RAPPP (Resident Awareness of Pet Poop Pollution) Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa, Inc., Nestor B. Ortiz, Jr. |
$9,750.00 |
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This grant is a special criteria project. RAPPP will enable teens in the Zoo Crew Explorers program to take a leadership role in the development of this outreach program to teach the public about the hazards of improperly disposed pet waste and steps to help prevent pollution by keeping animal waste out of the water. Participants will research the "ZooPoo" program that recycles herbivore droppings to use as fertilizer, develop a 20-minute program to be used at the Critter Corner amphitheater, and create a 5-minute cart demonstration, an informational flyer and documentary CD. | |
Manatee County
| Project Jump & Splash Francis Wakeland Elementary School of International Studies, Ashlie Fulmer |
$3,538.00 |
| Kindergarten through 5th grade will perform separate projects to learn how water quality affects them using an on-site pond. Kindergarten classes will focus on vegetation; 1st grade will learn how humans affect water quality, 2nd grade will research frogs and their habitat, 3rd grade will focus on water testing while 4th and 5th graders will work on testing and comparing water in the Braden River to their pond. | |
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Palma Sola Scenic Highway Pet Waste Education Keep Manatee Beautiful, Inc., Ingrid McClellan |
$10,000.00 |
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This grant is a special criteria project. Keep Manatee Beautiful will install eight pet waste stations and informational signs along a one-mile segment of the Palma Sola Scenic Highway. This project will educate the users about the relationship between rainwater, pet waste, and water quality in Tampa Bay. | |
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Learning Naturally Lincoln Middle Magnet School, Reid Wallace |
$2,100.00 |
| Advanced 7th grade science students will teach 5th grade students from local elementary schools to be bay stewards. During field trips to Emerson Point Preserve, the seventh graders will teach the fifth graders about Florida native plants, animals and their interactions with the bay ecosystems. | |
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Cultivating Kids Coastal Crusaders Manatee County Friends of Extension, Kurt Rowe |
$4,406.00 |
| Anna Maria Elementary School students will create rain gardens to help reduce non-point source pollution to Lower Tampa Bay. The project also includes shoreline restoration as well as development of a pathway paved with native plants and student-designed signage to the restored shoreline. | |
Pinellas County
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Reprint and Distribute Two Targeted Boater's Guides Audubon of Florida, Ann Hodgson |
$7,500.00 |
| This Bay Mini-Grant will fund reprinting of the popular Hillsborough Bay and Boca Ciega Bay Boater's Guides for area boaters and anglers. Each map highlights fishing piers, boat ramps and other points of interest within the bays. | |
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Salt Creek Educational Overlook Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association, Julie Richey |
$5,000.00 |
| The proposed project will build an educational overlook on Salt Creek inside Bartlett Park, to increase community literacy of the Tampa Bay ecosystem. This overlook will include educational signs highlighting the mangrove environment, local wildlife and impacts of human activity on Tampa Bay. | |
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Makeover at Crescent Lake: Creating a Healthier and More Bio-Diverse Lake, Year 2 Crescent Lake Neighborhood Association, Gary Crosby |
$7,499.50 |
| This project will continue an extensive restoration of Crescent Lake, including installation of stormwater debris baskets and enhancing shoreline and upland plants. Maintenance of native plantings as well as continued monitoring of water quality by Lakewatch volunteers is included. | |
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Water Ways Great Explorations, The Children's Museum, David Penn |
$7,500.00 |
| Great Explorations will offer free, educational field trips to at-risk children focusing on the science of water, improvement of water quality and the ecosystem of the Tampa Bay Estuary. Approximately 750 students from Title 1 schools will receive free transportation, admission to the museum and will participate in the Great Splash! Activities. | |
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Princess Hirrihigua Indian Temple Mound Restoration and Stabilization Greater Pinellas Point Civic Association, Ray Wunderlich III |
$3,325.00 |
| The Princess Hirrihigua Tocobagan Indian Temple Mound on Pinellas Point Drive south has been neglected and erosion has severely decreased the height of the mound by approximately two feet. This project will remove invasive plants and plant native plants that thrive in sandy environments, as well as create educational signs and a boardwalk to keep visitors off the mound. | |
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Lake Egret Restoration and Revegetation: Phase 2 Neighborhood 'E' (The Landings) Homeowners Association, Dr. Christopher J. Davis |
$3,710.00 |
| Phase One of the Lake Egret restoration in St. Petersburg included restoration of the structural integrity of the pond's banks due to severe erosion. Phase Two will further stabilize and strengthen the shoreline and lake bed by additional plantings. | |
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War Veterans' Memorial Park Coastal Habitat Restoration Pinellas County Parks & Recreation Dept., Debbie Chayet |
$7,478.82 |
| The War Veterans' Memorial Park Coastal Habitat Restoration project will be a community hands-on restoration planting of a coastal habitat adjacent to a mangrove fringe located directly on Boca Ciega Bay. The project will also educate visitors to the park about the importance of coastal ecosystems and the value of mangroves through signs placed near the heavily used boat ramp. | |
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Estuary EDventures "A Day on the Bay" Community Course Tampa Bay Watch, Inc., Catherine Karns |
$3,300.00 |
| Tampa Bay Watch will conduct day-long environmental programs starting with classroom orientation of the estuary, then move to the Bay for a hands-on field trip experience seining through seagrass beds, kayaking over oyster bars and mangrove forests and ending back at the Tampa Bay Watch Marine and Education Center to reinforce eco-education objectives. | |
Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas Counties
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Digital Boating and Angling Guide to Tampa Bay FWC, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Chris Anderson |
$7,455.43 |
| The FWRI proposes to create a website that will enhance the hard-copy Boating and Angling Guide to Tampa Bay. The website will contain more detailed information about natural resources, boating safety, boating restrictions, ethical angling, marine facilities and more. | |
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Nature Matters Nature Matters, Inc., Kurt Zuelsdorf |
$3,300.00 |
| Partial funding of Nature Matters will organize and educate volunteers clean-up litter and debris using kayaks in Cross Bayou and Hillsborough and Manatee Rivers. Nature tour guide Kurt Zuelsdorf will provide an eco-lecture during the clean-up that will raise awareness of the volunteers' impacts to Tampa Bay. | |
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Save the Bay: It's In The Air Public Media Productions, Inc., Arlen Slobodow |
$10,000.00 |
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This grant is a special criteria project. Public Media Productions will produce a DVD presentation including graphics, regional footage and interviews detailing how air pollution ends up in the Bay and its impact on the Estuary and human health. The DVD will illustrate ways we as consumers and citizens can play a role in reducing air pollution, and include pieces on fossil-fuel power plants, conservation, solar energy, hybrid vehicles, telecommuting and carpooling. | |
Tampa Bay Estuary Program
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