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Current Project Grants
The Wayne Morse Center awards project grants each year to support community organizations, university faculty and departments, and student organizations. Awards are given to projects that stimulate and support educational events related to the Center’s current or upcoming theme of inquiry. Past awards have provided funding for new courses, conferences, symposia, community events, student projects and youth education. The maximum award is $10,000 though most awards range from $2,000 to $6,000.
Awards are made each February for the following academic year. Applications for 2010-11 Project Grants will be available in December 2009 and due in late January 2010. The award process will be similar to that used for 2009-10 awards. Download a PDF of the 2009-10 Project Grant Application information.
Project Grants 2009-2010:
UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC)
“Equity and Green Jobs: Paving the Way for Worker Participation in Oregon’s Emerging Green Economy.” LERC will conduct organizing, training and technical assistance to create a network of low-income and worker advocates who can pursue a “green jobs agenda” in their communities. The project includes a collaborative meeting in Eugene featuring a speaker from Green for All in Oakland, California.
UO Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (JELL).
JELL will conduct a student-led symposium on September 11, 2009: “Advocating for an Environment of Equality: Legal and Ethical Duties in a Changing Climate.” Panelists will discuss current negotiations on climate change law, access to environmental justice, legal ethics, and litigating on behalf of environmental refugees. The program includes Continuing Legal Education credits for Oregon attorneys.
UO Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), Institute for a Sustainable Environment.
The Junior Climate Stewards program, a youth-focused climate change program for schools will build on the successful Climate Master program to enhance youth awareness, knowledge and skills pertaining to climate change. The program will focus on intergenerational equity and explore the ethic of stewardship. A training for teachers will be held on October 9, 2009. Contact Sarah Mazze at smazze@uoregon.edu for more information.
Institute for Sustainability Education and Ecology (ISEE) and the UO Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).
Funds will support an ELP service-learning project that will bring together university students, community non-profit organizations and area middle schools to raise awareness about equity, safety and climate issues associated with student transportation to and from school.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).
ELAW will host the 2008 Goldman Prize winner Pablo Fajardo from Ecuador for an ELAW Fellowship. He will present a lecture at the UO School of Law on August 26, 2009 titled “Jungle Law: Battling Chevron-Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Fajardo’s work holding multinational oil giants accountable for decades of polluting activities in the Ecuadorean Amazon has received worldwide attention.
Katie MacKendrick, UO Masters Student in community and regional planning.
Thesis: “American Indian Tribes and Climate Change Adaptation Planning." MacKendrick is working with the Coquille and the Hoopa Valley tribes and will discuss the implications of her research with these tribes and the UO community. Her research considers the ethical issues facing policymakers and tribes in climate change adaptation.
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