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Donna Beveridge (Ecobears)

Educate and involve children in ecology as ECOBEARS in Big Bear ValleyDonna Beveridge (Ecobears)

COMPETED FOR

$50K
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Competed in
February, 2010

Goals

  • Get 1000 children invoved in positive activities
  • Educate children on becoming Ecobears helping the environment
  • Have kids do community service projects to benefit local ecology

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Overview

Who will it benefit?  Children pre-K to high school, their families, visitors to Big Bear Valley and the San Bernardino Forest and Mountains, residents, wildlife and ecology.
What will we do?
1. Raise awareness through a media campaign and local presentations about the unique four-season environment of the Big Bear Valley, Big Bear Lake and the San Bernardino National Forest using local youth to be known as ECOBEARS.
2.  Provide positive learning and community service activities for 1000 children ages 3-18 who live in/and or visit the Big Bear Valley.  These projects will be selected by the youth and may include community gardens, planting seedlings of trees and native plants in recent burn areas, beach and lake clean-up days, recycling drives, working at the local Moonridge Zoo and volunteering with local National Forest and other community groups to improve the environment and the ecology of the Valley.

       

How will the 50K be Used?

Budget Notes: Volunteer time, phone, printing and copying for staff. There are groups in our area who will donate time, supplies and other needed items.
$ 20,000 staff of admin and finance
$ 9,000 Media, ads, printing, brochures, pamphlets
$ 10,000 Promotional items for kids like bracelets, eco-bags
$ 5,000 Materials for program, like plasic gloves, trash bags, seeds, tools
$ 3,000 Mileage for volunteers and transportation for kids
$ 2,000 computer, software, internet to run program
$ 1,000 T-shirts for Ecobears doing projects
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