[WACURE] Climate Solutions Funding Opportunity--Apply Now! Applications DUE Dec. 16!

Irene Shaver ishaver at sbctc.edu
Mon Dec 2 12:40:32 PST 2024 

Hello,
I am writing to announce the Climate Solutions Program Funding Opportunity for 2025!
During the 2023-2024 legislative session, Washington State legislators approved $475,000 for expanding Climate Solutions education across our 34 community and technical colleges, contingent on the upheld Climate Commitment Act. These funds become available on Jan. 1 and are intended to support curriculum development and program redesign to incorporate climate justice, climate solutions, or green skills into existing pathways.  The goal is to make students more competitive and prepared for the climate future and green/blue economy and to make pathways more equitable and relevant to our students-the climate generation-so that they can implement just climate solutions.

Please see the attached Funding Guidance for more details.

Join me for an informational webinar, to learn about resources to connect to and a Q&A session:
Friday, December 6, 2024 at 12-12:30 pm.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9-9:30 am.

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Details:

  *   Awards will range from $20,000-$40,000 per college.
  *   Deadline to Apply: December 16, 2024. End of Day
  *   Awards Announced: No later than Jan. 6th if not before.
  *   Funds Available:  January 2025.
  *   All work must be completed between January 2025 and June 30, 2026.
  *   One application per college.
Who May Apply
Public community and technical colleges, as defined under RCW 28B.50.030 may apply for funding. Colleges may submit only one application per institution. Professional technical, transfer, and continuing education/non-credit faculty are eligible for this funding to support program improvements in credit and non-credit, transfer, and professional technical pathways.
Use of Funding
Funding is to be used to support the following activities* in service of updating the curriculum and training to include climate justice, climate solutions, green/sustainability skills, and green technologies relevant to a climate-ready workforce.

  *   Curriculum development or training stipends for both adjunct and tenure track/tenured faculty
  *   For convening local employers and industry professionals to support program improvement; new curriculum development or skills integrations, or expansion of advisory boards to include employers engaging in climate solutions and green economy sectors.
  *   Partnership building and curriculum development stipends to support career-connected learning, project-based learning, service learning, undergraduate research, or other high-impact curricular changes that support learning in climate solutions, green skills, or climate justice.
  *   Equipment and/or supplies to improve instruction or incorporate new technologies, safety training, research projects, field sites, or community engagement.
  *   Stipends to redesign existing programs to be more inclusive, quality career-connected pathways that amplify emerging green skills and experience for all people, from incumbent workers to new learners.
  *   Stipends to facilitate professional development or lead cross-campus collaborative curriculum development in climate justice.
  *   Multi-college curriculum collaborations and convenings for common course/curriculum development.
*[This list is illustrative, not exhaustive, and colleges are welcome to use these funds in other ways that advance this work in their unique context.]
How to Apply:
Circulate this opportunity and share it with your faculty to garner interest and proposals. Each college is allowed to submit ONE application for the entire college. In the attached Word document, colleges will describe the key elements of the college's plan to use funds. Colleges will need to designate an administrator for this grant, responsible for submitting the application, coordinating with faculty recipients and the business office, and submitting the final report. Colleges will need to sign the assurances document and submit it with the application.
Email the following to Ishaver at sbctc.edu<mailto:Ishaver at sbctc.edu> for a complete application:
1.        A signed Assurances Document.
2.        A completed Climate Solutions Application Word document.
Allocations will be determined based on the competitive criteria listed in the attached Climate Solutions Funding Guidance.
Allocations will also be scaled proportionately according to the size of the request and the number of colleges requesting, relative to the available resources.

Thank you and please reach out if any questions arise!
Irene




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Irene Shaver PhD
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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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