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Bay Mini-Grants
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| Climate Change in Tampa Bay: An Education Outreach Project The Florida Aquarium |
$6,950.00 |
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The Florida Aquarium will provide four one-day Climate Change elementary and middle school teacher workshops for teachers from Pinellas, Manatee and Hillsborough counties. Aquarium staff will provide educators with climate change teaching materials and resources through the NOAA grant and support they have received. | |
| Sustainable Landscape Choices for Three Tampa Fire Stations Hillsborough County Extension |
$7,500.00 |
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Three Tampa fire stations will be pilot study areas for Mayor Pam Iorio's ‘green' initiative. Each site will showcase sustainable irrigation techniques, resource-efficient plant choices, and water/energy conservation measures. | |
| Save Lake Roberta: The restoration of A Natural Lake in Tampa Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association |
$6,253.10 |
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A three-acre natural lake in Tampa will undergo a three-step process to improve water quality. The grant award will fund step two of the improvement process at the lake. Save Lake Roberta Committee will work with local community volunteers and students from neighboring schools to clean up the shoreline of the lake, remove invasive plant species and replant with native species. | |
| Hydroponic & Organic Low-Impact Garden Cadette Girl Scout Troop C-671 |
$500.00 |
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The Girl Scout troop will use the organic low-impact garden to learn about environmentally friendly, renewable farming techniques as well as impacts to soil and water from nitrogen fertilizer run-off. Partial funding will allow for the purchase of one hydroponic tower and funds for an in-ground comparison test garden. | |
| Invasive Plant Removal and Watershed Education
Mayor's Beautification Program, Inc. |
$6,000.00 |
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The Mayor's Beautification Program in Tampa will recruit volunteers to remove Brazilian pepper, lead tree, air potato and other invasive plants from five parks in the bay area. Volunteers will also receive a brochure to inform them how their behavior affects Tampa Bay. | |
| Restoration of The Forest Conservation Area The Forest of Countryway Homeowners Association |
$3,540.00 |
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Residents and volunteers will work to restore a two-acre wetland conservation area by removing Brazilian pepper trees and replanting with native trees. Volunteers will also learn why the removal of the invasive trees is important. | |
| Little Manatee River Scrub Jay Restoration Project Little Manatee River State Park |
$1,764.76 |
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Little Manatee River State Park aims to restore suitable habitat for scrub jay territories using mechanical treatment and prescribed fire to stop the spread of invasive plants. Volunteers and staff will plant native trees and plants to further enhance the habitat. | |
| RIP (Recycling Invasive Plants) Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa, Inc. |
$6,030.00 |
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Lowry Park Zoo will team with a local middle school serving underprivileged students to teach the importance of removing invasive plants from local waterways and how the health of the water impacts the health of the local flora, fauna and manatees. Students will collect invasive plants to supplement the Zoo's manatees' diet and use what they learn to help prepare presentations that will be used during Zoo Ventures outreach programs. | |
| A What !?! Awareness Tampa's Mendez Exceptional Center |
$400.00 |
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Tampa's Mendez Exception Center is a K-12 school whose population is less than 100 students - of which more than 90% are eligible for reduced or free lunch. Students attending the Center will participate in EDventures and gain an understanding of stewardship of Tampa Bay not possible in the regular classroom setting. | |
Manatee County
| Palma Sola Park Plantings and Habitat Restorative Initiative Palma Sola Botanical Park Foundation Inc. |
$4,000.00 |
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Volunteers from local schools will work with Park staff to transform the shoreline along the Park's southern edge. Students and staff will work together to remove invasive plants and replant the area with native plants to provide habitat for small mammals and roosting sites for nesting birds. | |
| Spring Break Camp at Felts Preserve Around the Bend Nature Tours, Karen Fraley |
$6,525.00 |
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This grant will allow 60 students participating in the free and reduced lunch program at local schools to attend a one-week spring break camp. Students will learn about invasive plants, the role of wetlands in water quality, and migratory birds' dependence on wetlands for survival. | |
| Mariposa Key Restoration Project Manatee-Sarasota Fish and Game Association |
$7,447.00 |
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Manatee-Sarasota Fish and Game Association will partner with multiple local, state, and federal entities to restore six acres of coastal habitat on Mariposa Key. The restoration project will be completed in four phases including removal of exotic vegetation, debris removal, replanting of native plants and maintenance and monitoring of the restoration effort. | |
| Oiled Wildlife Response Save Our Seabirds, Inc. |
$1,620.25 |
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The Oiled Wildlife Response volunteers will attend a training class and be given a manual to assist them in a clean up effort outlining their duties should the need arise to save wildlife. | |
| Turtle Talks Activity Books Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch, Inc. |
$2,913.50 |
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Funds for this grant application will go to support reprinting of 2 turtle activity books geared at elementary-aged children. The turtle books were written by then high-school student Zander Srodes and are distributed through Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch to local schools. The books have since been translated in 3 languages and distributed to eight countries. | |
Pinellas County
| Ocean in Motion The Pier Aquarium, Inc. |
$7,500.00 |
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Ocean in Motion will partner with six local schools to set up a touch tank for a 4- to 5-week period at the school. The touch tank will teach students about the complex diversity of the Tampa Bay ecosystem through a hands-on experience. Students will learn about the importance of water quality, and how that can impact Bay inhabitants. | |
| Save The Bay Throw Poop Away City of South Pasadena |
$4,368.00 |
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The City will install sealed pet waste stations at three public parks that permit leashed dogs. In addition the City will include an education component consisting of informative articles in their newsletter and ads on the City's website and TV station to promote use of the newly installed waste stations. | |
| Watershed Improvement Partnership between Shorecrest Preparatory School and Placido Bayou Community Association Placido Bayou Community Association |
$3,126.50 |
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The community at Placido Bayou will partner with students at Shorecrest Preparatory School to remove invasive vegetation and debris from three lakes. Native plants will be replanted along the shore of the lakes and water quality results will be monitored for changes. Results of the project will be collated by the students and used to create a scientific paper as their final class project. | |
| Diamondback Terrapins: A Community-Based Conservation
Education Program Florida Turtle Conservation Trust |
$7,500.00 |
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This community-based education project will highlight the ecological importance of the imperiled diamondback terrapin. The grant will create an educator's guide for elementary and middle school children and a workshop for teachers to introduce the guide. Symposiums for environmental professionals and for local crabbers to focus on terrapin mortality in crab pots will also be held. | |
| Estuary EDventures-Coastal Restoration through
Service Learning Tampa Bay Watch, Inc. |
$6,000.00 |
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Students, educators, and community members will work to restore approximately three acres of shoreline at Fort DeSoto Park and Terra Ceia. Native plants will be planted to improve dune, wetland and upland habitats at the parks .The EDventures service-learning program combines estuarine curriculum with hands-on learning field trips and restoration projects. | |
| McKay Creek Greenway Gone Batty! Pinellas County Extension |
$7,496.19 |
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This grant project will provide for bat conservation through construction of a large community bat house that will be placed on the southern edge of the conservation property. Along with the house, custom interpretive education signage identifying Florida's native bats and their benefit will be constructed and posted. Additionally, an educational workshop to help inform participants about the benefits provided by bats will be held. | |
| Field Trip Funding Osceola Middle School |
$1,500.00 |
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Funds for this grant project will pay for students to travel to Tampa Bay Watch and participate in the EDventures program. Students will create a powerpoint presentation, podcasts and a video presentation that will be shown during family fun night and at open houses. Parts of the presentations will also be included in the morning school announcements to benefit the entire school. | |
| Digital Boating and Angling Guide to Tampa Bay
Updates and Enhancements FWC, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) |
$6,784.00 |
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The popular digital version of the Tampa Bay Boater's Guide will receive enhancements including detailed boating restriction zone maps, pictures of boat ramps and piers as well as adding paddling trails and fishing tips and expanded information about natural habitats and animals of Tampa Bay. | |
| Least Tern Roof Nesting The Friends of Weedon Island |
$7,500.00 |
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The Friends, along with volunteers and a Boy Scout troop will create a new nesting area for Least Terns on the roof of the Weedon Island Cultural and Natural History Center. Visitors to the Center will learn about the endangered habitat of the terns through interpretive signage and use of binoculars to view the nesting area from the observation deck. | |
| Habitat Flor-Da Manatee Kayak Nature Adventures, LLC. |
$2,685.00 |
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This grant will provide funding for nine kayak habitat clean-up trips. Participants will collect trash and debris from Boca Ciega Bay and learn how household waste and stormwater runoff can impact manatee habitat, during their kayak trip. | |
| Bi-Annual Bear Creek Clean-Up Pasadena Bear Creek Neighborhood Association |
$6,710.66 |
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The Pasadena Bear Creek Neighborhood Association will use funds from this grant to support clean-ups at Bear Creek which drains to Boca Ciega Bay. Volunteers will remove debris and trash along the creek and signs to raise awareness of the creek and clean-ups will be purchased. | |
Tampa Bay Estuary Program
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