Celebrate Urban Birds Mini-Grants

Celebrate Urban Birds Mini-Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Amount: US $250 - US $2,500
Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Summary

Celebrate Urban Birds Mini-Grants aim to foster community-led educational events that promote equity and inclusion in birdwatching. By providing funding between $250 and $2500, the initiative supports organizations from underserved communities in Canada, the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. The grants prioritize projects that involve bird observation, habitat improvement, and integration of arts and culture, ensuring that historically marginalized voices are included in conservation and citizen science efforts.

Overview

About Us Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual, inclusive, and equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through equitable knowledge sharing, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and intentionally advocating for community ownership and scientific research leadership. Together with participating communities, the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement scientific research and programming while focusing on race and equity. Mini-grants Thank you for your interest in the Birds, Equity, and Culture mini-grants  from Celebrate Urban Birds! These mini-grants promote educational events centered on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in birdwatching and ornithology. We will prioritize community-led applications from underserved communities that share their local knowledge and expertise and emphasize culture and the arts. Grant awards range from $250 to $2500. We award mini-grants to organizations from Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Here are the requirements for your proposals: Promote justice, equity, and inclusionInclude bird observationIncorporate greening or habitat improvement for the birdsThe arts and culture should be integrated in a meaningful, inclusive, and authentic wayThe funds can only go to organizations (not to individuals)

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Mini-grants are awarded to organizations from Canada, United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.