Klamath Basin Audubon Society

Grants Programs

Klamath Basin Audubon Society (KBAS) thanks the Herschel Wayne Scott and Lois Ann Scott Estates for their generosity and commitment to the children of the Klamath Basin. Since 2004, KBAS has operated a grant program on their behalf for the express purpose of awarding instructional grants to area educators in Klamath, Lake, Modoc, and Siskiyou counties in either public or private learning institutions. This program began in 1996 under the guidance of Wayne and Lois Ann Scott and was funded by Klamath Basin Audubon Society, who continues to contribute annually to this program.

Preference in grant selection will be made to those whose proposals show a balanced and integrated approach to the study of the environment, focusing on the areas of botany, zoology, geography, climate, etc. The majority of funds will be disbursed to primary grade teachers in the winter term, but all grades are welcomed to apply for environmental education grants.

Each year, 8-10 grants up to $250 are awarded by December 15. KBAS is most grateful to Wayne and Lois Ann Scott for all the time, energy, and love they invested in our Chapter educational programs. This heritage will continue through the generosity of their estates in the Grant Program that bears their names.

For Grant Application information, download one of the following formats:

Wayne and Lois Ann Scott Grant
Guidelines and Rules

KLAMATH BASIN AUDUBON SOCIETY
LOIS ANN AND WAYNE SCOTT
SCHOOL GRANT PROGRAM GUIDELINES
Adopted at the November 5, 2003 Board Meeting
Revised October 14, 2005
  1. The purpose of the grant program is to provide grant assistance for conservation/ education programs for public and private schools, with an emphasis on grades K-6. Other wildlife conservation education programs that provide outreach to a minimum of 15 children under the age of 18 who live in the Klamath Basin may be considered by the team as composed in #5.
  2. The Klamath Basin Chapter is responsible for $2000 annually budgeted to fund these grants. In any year that the chapter is not able to raise funds to meet their commitment, up to $2000 may be taken from this fund.
  3. All fund raising events that the chapter undertakes should consider contributing a percentage to add or replace funds in this account.
  4. Grant Program funds are to remain in a separate account from chapter funds, to be administered jointly by the chapter Treasurer and Ralph Opp, Charlotte Opp, Leslie Lowe, or a designate approved by one of these three. Two signatures are required to remove funds from this account and deposit them in the KBAS checking account.
  5. Decisions regarding selection of elementary classrooms or other applicants for grant monies will be made by a team composed of the Education Chair, one Board member, and at least one of the following people: Ralph Opp, Charlotte Opp, Leslie Lowe, or a designate approved by one of these three. The team may have as many as six total members, the remainder of whom may be either Audubon members or Board members, as appointed by the Chapter President.
  6. Criteria for Grant selection:
    1. Each classroom /applicant request must not go over $250.00
    2. Project must include/involve entire class or be open to the public.
    3. Project must demonstrate achievable and relevant wildlife conservation and education goals.
    4. Each grant recipient is responsible to provide a final report and bulletin board display materials to the Scott Grant Coordinator by June 1st of the project/grant year.
  7. Should KBAS dissolve as a chapter, the remaining money from the Grant Funds account will be divided equally among all elementary schools in Klamath county and city school districts, with the requirement that the money in each school go to the school library to be spent on conservation and education materials as directed by each school librarian.
  8. A Scott Grant Coordinator will be named by the Chapter President and will have the responsibility to send out Grant Applications and Grant Information no later than October 15 of each year with a submission from applicants deadline no later than November 15. Grant information will also be made available on the Klamath Basin Audubon website at www.eaglecon.org. The Team (see #5) will be responsible for meeting by December 2 of each year to evaluate submissions and make recommendations to the Board at their December Board meeting. Upon approval of the submissions at the December Board meeting, the KBAS Treasurer and Ralph Opp, Charlotte Opp, Leslie Lowe, or a designate approved by one of these three will be directed to remove funds from the Scott Savings Account so that the KBAS Treasurer can make checks to each recipient and get them in the mail no later than December 15.

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