The Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund supports to a wide variety of local efforts to preserve and understand nature. Projects may address the fund’s goals in scientific, cultural, educational, aesthetic or economic ways. The application deadline is October 1. If this date falls on a weekend, the deadline is the following Monday.
- Click here to download the Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund grant guidelines.
- Click here to download the Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund grant application.
Previous recipients of grants from the fund include:
- Black Jack Battlefield Trust, Ecumenical Christian Ministries, Grassland Heritage Foundation, Kansas Land Trust, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence-Douglas County Planning and Development Services, Prairie Moon Waldorf School, Sancta Maria School (2011)
- Community Mercantile Education Foundation, City of Lawrence, USD 497 Wakarusa Valley School, and the Jayhawk Audobon Society (2010)
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries, the Kansas Land Trust, Friends of the Kaw, Lawrence Youth Ensemble/LCAVA, Lawrence Community Nursery School, Monarch Watch, and the Lawrence Arts Center, and Black Jack Battlefield Trust (2009)
- Spencer Museum of Art, Waldorf Association of Lawrence, Lecompton Elementary School, Friends of Hidden Valley, and the Kansas Rural Center (2008)
- Operation Wildlife, the Grassland Heritage Foundation, the KU Natural History Museum, and the Kansas Audio-Reader Network (2007)
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Kansas Biological Survey, Jayhawk Audobon Society, and Ken Lassman (2006)
