Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College was awarded a $499,407 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Environmental Literacy Program to advance community resilience through environmental and climate education. The college’s proposal was one of just nine projects across the United States that were awarded funding.
The selected projects for NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Program use education to build the foundation for resilience to weather and climate hazards. Together, these projects spread across eight states and the U.S. Virgin Islands will engage youth and the public around extreme weather and other environmental hazards. A total of $3 million was awarded to empower people to protect themselves and their communities from local environmental threats.
“For indigenous peoples, climate change threatens culturally significant traditions that rely on sustainable fish, plant, and wildlife resources,” said Courtney Kowalczak, director of the Environmental Institute at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. “We will be working to increase the knowledge and readiness of middle- to high-school students to deal with the impacts of extreme weather and environmental hazards that face the Ojibwe Ceded Territories in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.”
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