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Activity Fund Overview
ELP Activity Fund grants provide resources for fellows to put their leadership
training into practice in their communities and areas of expertise.
 Once during their two-year fellowship, ELP fellows may request support
from the ELP Activity Fund, which provides small grants ($1,000-$10,000)
to support leadership-building activities through individual and collaborative
projects. Fellows are encouraged to pursue innovative projects that
enhance their public leadership skills, build community, foster collaboration
with other fellows and peers, and strive for tangible environmental
outcomes.
Activity
Fund projects encompass
a broad spectrum of needs and goals, from preventing childhood lead
poisoning to assessing environmental justice and smart growth to establishing
environmental education programs on invasive species, and many more.
View current projects.
ELP's Activity Fund guidelines encourage fellows to pursue activities
that:
- Foster collaboration between fellows;
- Bring together different sectors (government, academic, nonprofit,
business, etc.);
- Link social, economic, and environmental issues;
- Strengthen peer networks among emerging environmental leaders, particularly
at the local level;
- Broaden ideas about leadership.
Examples of potential skill development activities include:
- Creating new intentional communities by bringing together groups
of people who do not normally convene and who push each other to think
about environmental work in new ways;
- Writing and speaking publicly or publishing a manual or web page
that translates environmental work for a new audience;
- Holding meetings or workshops that expand on retreat training and
transfer skills to peers and local constituencies;
- Designing an innovative course, such as one that connects the university
to a community or region, or that draws on practice and nurtures its
intellectual and reflective dimensions;
- Expanding implementation of a project in a way that qualitatively
changes it, makes it replicable, and allows measurement of its successes
and failures; and
- Planning and developing a new organization to address cutting edge
environmental issues or unmet needs in the environmental community.
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