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Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative
Two Tools to Help Applicants Prepare Planning Grant Proposals
To help potential applicants gauge the “fit” between their intended work and the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, the Great Lakes Fishery Trust (GLFT) provides some general advice here in the form of a decision pathway. As applicants develop ideas for work to be undertaken through the Initiative, the GLFT suggests that they periodically revisit this decision pathway to confirm that their intentions are consistent with the Initiative’s goal and strategies.
Decision Pathway
Example Projects
Place- or community-based education is a popular phrase these days, and the GLFT’s surveys of K–12 educators and representatives of environmental organizations indicate that the meaning assigned to this phrase varies considerably among respondents.
To help applicants better understand the nature of place- or community-based education as conceived by the GLFT, a few examples are provided here. Two PowerPoint presentations (“Broad Brook” and “Algiers: Gateway to Guilford”) come from the work of the Center for Place-based Education at Antioch New England Institute. The remaining examples are stories about projects undertaken by teachers, students, and community groups involved in the DTE Freshwater Institute at Northwestern Michigan College.
Considered together, these presentations and stories illustrate the integrated strategies and student-centered work that the GLFT seeks to support through the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative. These examples should not be seen as templates to be duplicated. They are intended to serve only as examples of the kinds of projects and programs that incorporate the Initiative’s core strategies.
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