Program Structure
The Board
Tasks
Recommended steps to completing these tasks will be gone over throughout the remainder of this handbook. You can visit the chapters about committees for most of this information.
- Obtain funding for the program
- Create and continue to update the program website
- Decide upon the selection criteria, the online application form, and other supporting documents, periodically evaluating and improving the process
- Budget project administration costs to less than 10% of yearly expenses and learn how to solicit community donations and assistance
- Implement a promotional plan to advertise the availability of the grants and give press information and assistance to grant awardees seeking to promote their projects
- Review each cycle of grants, mentoring the awardees of all funded youth environmental projects
- Organize, present speeches at, and award big checks to grant winners at the grant award ceremony at the end of each grant cycle; encourage important community figures to attend and potentially speak at the ceremony
- Provide follow-up and analyze the detailed project evaluation forms for all completed projects, helping the funded project groups to calculate their environmental impact according to the “Impact Assessment”
- Continue to seek ongoing local funding for the program
- Encourage other communities to begin their own Green Teen Micro-Grant Programs, offering them the links to the process, website, and related materials cost-free
Recommended steps to completing these tasks will be gone over throughout the remainder of this handbook. You can visit the chapters about committees for most of this information.
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