Youth Education Mini-grants Awarded

Photo: Arlington Master Naturalists

Each Spring ASNV awards Youth Education “mini-grants” to local schools and nonprofit organizations for projects involving youth that establish or enhance a learning experience about nature and conservation. Preference is given to projects that involve underserved groups and communities.

This year three grants of $500 each were awarded: Bucknell Elementary School in Alexandria, for materials to establish a student-run garden with native plants behind the school and adjacent to a local stream valley with abundant wildlife; Rockledge Elementary School in Woodbridge, to continue and enhance with new plantings an existing pollinator garden that will hopefully serve as an important stopover for migrating Monarch butterflies; and the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists (ARMN), who will use the funding to help develop an educational “toolkit” about local bird life for use by naturalists in local schools and ARMN-run nature clubs that have been established in low-income communities. The toolkit will utilize the recently published book on common Northern Virginia birds by Florence McBride which is now available in Spanish and English.

UPDATE: A team of ASNV volunteers has translated Florence McBride’s book into Spanish!

As with the English version, the digital picture book on local birds, tailored to beginners, is available free of charge on the ASNV website. Useful links to Spanish-language and English-language bird-related websites is included.

Click to download the Spanish version of Florence McBride’s book in pdf format.

The copyright and sharing protocols are the same as those for the English version.

A link to the Spanish-language book in downloadable PDF format may be found here or by clicking the image.  We hope this translation of Florence McBride’s book builds on the original outreach and expands the range of educators and beginning birders inspired to learn more about our local birds!