Conservation & Education

The CCBC offers grants of up to $1000 to support conservation efforts relating directly or indirectly to the well-being or protection of birds. Due to limited funds, for 2023-24, we are again accepting applications only from proposers working in the Western Hemisphere where many of our local, Cape Cod migrants spend some part of their lives. Following the approach introduced to the club by Herb Raffaele, we welcome applications that encourage community involvement, particularly that of children, as a way of promoting bird-friendly environments. We are seeking organizations which share our goals but need seed money to begin or additional funding to continue.  Applications are reviewed and funded once a year–in the Spring.   Guidelines for submitting applications are available here.

This program was jump-started by a generous grant from the Handy Foundation, in memory of Ned Handy, a long-time member and supporter of the Cape Cod Bird Club.  The program is sustained by the generosity of our members.  Currently, we receive only enough funds to make three awards per year despite receiving many more deserving proposals.  We would welcome any additional support from individuals or foundations, so that we can expand the program to include proposals from outside the Western Hemisphere, as we did in 2021-22.

Several of the projects we have funded involved gathering together people from the community, and these had to be put on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic. We look forward to these getting back on track during the coming months.

Antigua

Promoting Citizen Science Through Birding (2019-2020)

Project Proposal

Final Report               Summary Report

Benin

Strengthen Education for the Conservation of Migratory Waterbirds on Lake Nokoué in Benin (2021-2022)

Project Proposal
Final Report

 

Cameroon

Increasing Local Community Awareness to Enhance Protection of the Birds in the Santchou Wildlife Reserve, West Region of Cameroon (2022-2023)
Project Proposal

Cape Cod

Bird Banding as a Worldwide Bird Conservation Effort through Teaching Teens to Young Adults (2019)

Project Proposal

Final Report

Birding for All Children (2024)

Project Proposal

Cayman Islands

Cayman Classroom Educators Toolkit: Bird Conservation (2021-2022)

Project Proposal

Costa Rica

Connecting Costa Rican and Canadian Kids through the Motus Wildlife Tracking System and our Shared Migratory Birds (2021-2022)

Project Proposal
Interim Report

Cuba

Environmental Culture of Coastal Communities of the APRM Baconao Biosphere Reserve (2021)

Project Proposal
Final Report

I protect birds, and what do you do? (2021)

Project Proposal

Final Report          School Curriculum
Press Release       Newsletter

Follow Us and You Will Learn How to Protect Birds (2021)

Project Proposal
Final Report          Final Report Photos

Georgia (Republic of)

Printing of Posters for Distributing to Schools and Environmental Youth Groups of Georgia as Awards (2021-2022)

Project Proposal

Owl Poster

Vulture Poster

Environmental Education Results in 2021-22

Grenada

Our Amazing Seabirds: Grenadines Waste to Art Competition (2021)

Project Proposal

Final Report

Guatemala

Involving Q’eqchi Maya Primary School Students in Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (2023)

Project Proposal

Haiti

Sketches of Nature: Environmental Education through Art (2019-2020)

Project Proposal

Interim Report

Jamaica

Endemic Birds of Jamaica Poster (2020)
Project Proposal

Final Poster

Kenya

Mobilization of Grassroot Support to Conservation of Endemic Bird Species in Yala Swamp, Kenya (2022-2023)
Project Proposal

Final Report

Mexico

Environmental education is for everyone! (2024)
Project Proposal

Venezuela

Linking Vulnerable and Low-income Communities to the Conservation and Monitoring of Birds on Margarita Island (Phase I: 2021-2022)

Project Proposal (Phase I)
Final Report (Phase I)

Venezuela

Bird of prey conservation through rescue biocultural memory in communities of the Andes of Venezuela (2022-2023)

Project Proposal
Final Report

West Indies

Translation of Endemic Birds of the West Indies  Coloring Book into Spanish (2022-2023)

Project Proposal

Covers   Announcement