In 2010, the Stewardship Council will continue to offer grants to help the reduce physical, financial, and social barriers to enable youth participation in outdoor experiences. There are 4 different grant funds available. Download the Request for Proposals from our website. The four grant funds are:

• Catalyst Fund: Nurturing Grassroots Efforts to Improve Access to Outdoor Experiences to general operating support of emerging efforts aimed at introducing youth to outdoor activities in communities with significant need
• Impact Fund: Sparking innovation and Lowering Barriers to support day-to-day operations of promising programs and high-impact organizations aimed at engaging youth in outdoor activities in communities with significant needs
• Initiative Fund: Lowering the Barriers to Connect the Youth to the Outdoors to support efforts that help eliminate frequently-cited barriers to connecting youth with the outdoors
• Infrastructure Fund: Building Parks and Playgrounds to support substantial improvements in the infrastructure of community parks and urban open spaces that are planned and executed by established organizations that have demonstrated capacity

The first rounds of proposals are due in February. You can find a full calendar the 2010 Request for Proposals, 2010 Grantmaking Plan,  scheduled 2010 Grant Workshops on our website as well as additional grantseeker resources and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. We have started a Blog to help us provide more information about our foundation and the and organizations and youth that we help to support.