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Cawaco derives its name from the primary assets within the service area. The name originates from the CAhaba, WArrior and COosa rivers in central Alabama. (Pronounced Cuh-Wah-Co).
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that serves Blount, Chilton, Jeferson, Shelby and Walker Counties of central Alabama.
Cawaco RC&D administers two grant programs: Educational and Challenge. Learn about the grant program here.
Address: 2112 11th Ave. South, Suite 541 Birmingham AL 35205
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Cawaco RC&D, Inc.
Nonprofit dedicated to providing and coordinating leadership and partnerships to promote the conservation, development and sustained use of our natural and human resources.
Toshiba America Foundation: Deadline: Rolling
Do you have a plan to make science and math learning for engaging for students? Toshiba America Foundation provides grants to educators to support tech-enhanced STEM learning for students. Grants enable educators to roll out match and science project-based learning, and can be used to purchase supplies and materials.
Prize: Grants requests of less than $5,000 are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year; grants proposals for more than $5,000 are due November 1.
Apply here: http://www.toshiba.com/taf/612.jsp
Toshiba America Foundation - Grants for Grades 6 - 12
Grants for K-12 math and science projects from the Toshiba America Foundation.
We got the sweetest surprise in the mail today! Hand-written thank-you notes from Bluff Park Elementary students!
We fund roughly $100,000 in educational projects yearly and are looking for exceptional proposals from schools we have not funded in the past. Apply today for the 2019 grant cycle!
Cawaco announces Jemison City Park grant | The Clanton Advertiser
It has been about a year since the Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council awarded Jemison City Park with a grant to fund park improvements, and on April 11, Cawaco RC&D and its supporters returned to survey the impact.
This is a fantastic project coordinated by the Valley Creek Committee. Students from schools located in the Valley Creek Watershed will be producing an anti-littering campaign. First through third place winners of a video competition will win $250-$500-$1000 awards and have their videos played on television stations. To VOTE for the best video go to the Litter Quitters YouTube channel.
Cawaco is excited to be able to provide the cash awards to the schools for this project.
Talk of Alabama 04/12/18 Valley Creek Cleanup
ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama offers news, sports, and weather reporting for the surrounding communities including Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Cullman, Gadsden, Talladega, Sylacauga, Carbon Hill, Jasper, Hoover, Bessemer, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Trussville and Homewood.
We were in Jemison this week! Thanks to the legislators who keep in contact with community needs and supporting projects that matter.
JIS teacher receives grant for Chromebooks | The Clanton Advertiser
Jemison Intermediate sixth graders have been enjoying new Chromebooks, thanks to a $2,910 grant awarded to science teacher Katie Maddox.
People with a high school credential make nearly $9,000 each year more on average and have more job options.
If you want more in life–more money, more options, more opportunity–then a high school credential is essential. Get help preparing for your GED today!
Get FREE help preparing for your GED | Alabama Public Television
If you want more in life–more money, more options, more opportunity–then a high school credential is essential. Get help preparing for your GED today!
In keeping with the "Support your local farmer" theme:
Here is a short list of some local farmers, and their contact information.
Vendors List : Alabama Farmers Market
ALABAMA FARMERS - You can buy locally grown fruits and vegetables directly from Alabama Farmers primarily during the Spring, Summer and Fall months. However, we do have a select few here during the Winter.
It’s a changing landscape for the small farm operators. Support your local farmers.
the end of the road
Last week while on our monthly grocery trip, we were shocked to see that milk was selling for $1.50 a gallon at ALDI in Big Rapids. $1.50. “Limit five,” the sign said. Clearly, most shoppers’…
We had a great time touring Southern Organics in Columbiana. This is what you call high tech aquaponic/hydroponic system! They’re providing nutrient-rich food with zero pesticide directly to local chefs and specialty stores. The talapia provide all the nutrients for the plants.🙂🌱
National Geographic
As the climate changes, parks are going to become more important sanctuaries for birds—but what kind of ecological impact does that have on everything else?
RIPE Project Engineering Crops That Use Water More Efficiently
Agriculture uses 90-percent of the world’s fresh water supply. And as the demand for food around the world continues to rise, so will the need to find crops that use less water.
Encouraging STEM in schools can get messy!🙂
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Let Kids Be KidsFrom trouble-maker to problem-solver: this is why you should let your kids destroy the house.Speaker: Neil deGrasse Tyson for the Space Foundation
Posted by Goalcast on Monday, March 12, 2018
Alabama Seafood
Interested in starting your own oyster farm here in South Alabama? There's a brand new website that'll help you throughout the process. Give it a look!
We had a great turnout for the Alabama Rivers and Streams network Strategic Habitat meeting last week! Check out the website to see all the presentations!
Learn about strategic habitat in Alabama and the agencies working to protect Alabama’s natural biodiversity!
Strategic Habitat – CAWACO RC&D
Cawaco RC&D provides administrative and project support to the Alabama Rivers and Streams Network. The Network is an informal group that shares information regarding: Shares information regarding threatened, endangered and at-risk species, Identifies cooperative opportunities for sampling o...
“I’m working this new initiative in Alabama. I don’t know any black plumbers, any black electricians, any black car mechanics. I’m going back in Alabama in the summer and partner with a vocational school to get more black plumbers, electricians.”
“For some reason these millennials or as I call them idiots — they think they are too good to do manual labor. There is nothing wrong with being a plumber or electrician or car mechanic.”
VIDEO: Charles Barkley to launch vocational school initiative in Alabama to train black plumbers, electricians, mechanics - Yellowhammer News
Friday on ESPN’s “First Take,” former Auburn University basketball standout and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkey announced he would be launching a vocational school initiative to train black[...]
Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools
Instructor helps a student participating in a woodworking manufacturing training program in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg Charlie Negron Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the th...
The regional library in Warrior is now a seed bank! They received 2000 containers and have filled them with seed they received from Cawaco and are distributing them!
From the newsletter:
Seeds for You!
Members of the Regional Library and Arts Foundation measured out nine kinds of vegetable seeds (donated by Magnolia Garden Club) into separate vials (donated by Warrior Pharmacy).
The seeds were given to the Garden Club by Cawaco - a non-profit conservation organization.
We will now give these seeds to community members who will start home gardens. Come by the Warrior Public Library and select your seeds. We have about 200 vials of each type. Please join us in growing and sharing healthy food! We currently are distributing these varieties:
Bloomsdale Spinach
Sugar Snap English Peas
Peaches & Cream Corn
Big Max Pumpkin
Black Crowder Peas
Jackson Wonder Bush Limas
Dwarf Long Green Pod Okra
Blue Lake Pole Beans
Cucumbers (two kinds)
WE STILL HAVE FREE VEGETABLE SEED (and a good variety!)! APPLY NOW for your spring planting!
Learn about pollinators!
Pollinators
Celebrating Wildflowers is events, wildflower viewing areas, wildflower photos, native plant information, pollinators, just for kids, coloring pages, teacher resources, ferns, rare plants, plant of the week, pollinator of the month, invasive plants, and wildflower links.
Every summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities offers tuition-free opportunities for school teachers and university educators. Interested teachers can find topics about art, world history, religion, literature, and more. The deadline to apply for the summer seminars is March 1, 2018!
Apply for 2018 NEH Tuition-Free Summer Programs
Every summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities offers tuition-free opportunities for school teachers and university educators. Interested teachers can find topics about art, world history, religion, literature, and more. The deadline to apply for the summer seminars is March 1, 2018!
Does your organization promote healthy choices for students/children? If so you can apply for an Aldi Smart Kids! The ALDI Smart Kids Program supports nonprofit organizations, public agencies, K-12 schools, and faith-based organizations that promote kids being active and healthy in the communities where ALDI stores are located in 35 states and Washington, DC. Grants ranging from $100 to $5,000 and ALDI gift cards are provided to local community organizations that encourage kids to be active in the areas of education, physical activity, nutrition, socializing, and the arts. Applications are accepted between February 1 and December 15, annually. Visit the company’s website to learn more about the ALDI Smart Kids Program.
WINNERS!! we are so proud of the students and teachers who keep going the extra mile and making such a big impact in Walker County.
WINNERS!!! We are beyond excited to announce this show’s winner of the Miller Electric Welders Garage Bound, LLC 2018 Pick here at the 50th Anniversary of the World of Wheels Auto Show in Birmingham, Alabama! We chose Walker County Center of Technology as the winner! This school’s youth participants shortened this bus, lowered it, rebuilt the engine ... all as a school project. They deserve special recognition and encouragement from us and our industry. A huge thank you to Von Hot Rod for donating his time with his custom pinstripes on this metal cooler.
Posted by Garage Bound, LLC on Sunday, February 11, 2018
This is a example of how a small grant can make a big impact! Cawaco provides a grant 2 years ago to purchase the tools to work on this rat rod so WCCT could go to Charlotte NC competition. Amazingly it was the ONLY drivable vehicle to enter the contest and one of the only ones from out of state.
These teachers make a huge difference in the lives of students and are shaping the future work force. Go see them this weekend!
Check out this segment about the Walker County Center Of Technology rat rod that aired earlier this evening on WVUA 23. The WCCT rat rod will be on display this weekend at O'Reilly's World of Wheels at the BJCC.
Posted by Walker County Today on Thursday, February 8, 2018
Employment opportunities in the Chattanooga area!
Employment Opportunities - Chattanooga Community Kitchen
An Equal Opportunity Employer, the Chattanooga Community Kitchen will accept applications until the position is filled. The following positions are open.
Nothing can stop the WCCT Rat Rod school bus! 🚌🚌🚌🚌
Walker County Today
For the past several months, you may have noticed a white, rusty bus with blue stripes on the roads in Walker County. The bus, built by students at the Walker County Center of Technology (WCCT), will be on display at this weekend’s O’Reilly Auto Parts World of Wheels custom car show in Birmingham.
WCCT students began building the bus, also known as a “rat rod,” in 2016, as part of a challenge to compete in the Charlotte STEAM Rat Rod Challenge at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The competition’s challenge was to build a vehicle out of parts from many vehicles by using a minimum of 80 percent recycled materials.
Thanks to a grant from Cawaco, the Nauvoo Fire Department was able to upgrade it's equipment to assure the water supply was capable of suppressing large structure fires.
The Cawaco board of directors is always happy to support our first responders.
Sara Verser was at Adamsville Elementary and interviewed one of our favorite teachers and his chickens! Cawaco has helped Adamsville Elementary get funding for their school garden storage shed!
Adamsville Elem chickens
Posted by Sarah Verser WBRC on Friday, February 2, 2018
We are so very honored to be able to help the Alabama Theatre restore the historic 18th street sign. This 90 year old landmark is one of many that we want to see preserved for the next 100 years.
An American Chestnut tree has been found in Canada!!
Rare chestnut find: 'This tree, it's a survivor'
A rare American chestnut tree found growing west of London will be used to help bring back the species decimated by blight over the past century.
Trade skills build communities, and are necessary if we want good-paying manufacturing jobs in America. America was built on industry!
Why Construction? - Go Build Alabama
Alabama’s construction industry is getting older—and smaller. Thousands of men and women leave the trades every year, and there aren’t enough young workers to replace them. If we want our state to continue to prosper, we have to start from the ground up.
What can homeowners and gardeners do to help native wildlife survive brutal cold, and intense heat and drought?
Create - Garden for Wildlife | National Wildlife Federation
You can invite wildlife back to your own yard and neighborhood by planting a simple garden that provides habitat. Imagine your garden teeming with singing songbirds, colorful butterflies, flitting hummingbirds, and other small wildlife.
Emotional Intelligence in the Heat of Wildfires
Massive wildfires have recently raged largely out of control in California, one growing so fast it has become among the largest in recorded history
It's no secret hunters contribute to lions share of funding for conservation in the United States.
But what happens if millennials, who have recently passed baby boomers as the largest living American generation, choose not to hunt and fish in relative proportion to their forebears?
Will millennials step up as hunting and angling continue decline?
Many millennials aren't hunters and anglers like their forebears — and that spells trouble.
We were out at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and noticed something kinda cool..
The 18th street sign is up and shining brightly on 2018! Happy New Year, Birmingham!
We attended the street party and lighting of the historic Alabama Theatre sign last night! Cawaco is proud to help with the funding of the restoration of this historic icon!
We attended the street party and lighting of the historic Alabama Theatre sign last night! Cawaco is proud to help with the funding of the restoration of this historic icon!
Posted by Cawaco RC&D on Monday, January 1, 2018
This New Years Eve the new Alabama Theatre sign will be lit! We are so proud to be part of this historic occasion.
Help us celebrate!! Cawaco has 2 tickets to give away for the Alabama Theatre New Year’s Eve concert with Taylor Hicks and Sister Hazel! Anyone interested needs to pm us before Sunday!
Alabama Theatre's new sign will light up New Year's Eve
The local donor community donated and pledged $188,500 to go forward with the construction of the 60-foot, vertical "Alabama" sign that is a replica of the vintage sign missing above the double doors leading to the stage entrance since the 1950s.
* Do you want to gain the skills and knowledge needed to make your community more walkable? Apply to be a 2018 America Walks Walking College fellow bit.ly/2iw6Wac
* We’re bringing together the fourth class of Walking College fellows. Will you be part of the ranks? bit.ly/2iw6Wac
* Be the change agent to make your community more walkable by applying for a 2018 Walking College fellowship. bit.ly/2iw6Wac
* Are you new to the walking movement or just want to learn more about the Walking College? Join us for a Feb 8 webinar to learn more bit.ly/2iw6Wac
The Walking College | AmericaWalks
The curriculum has been designed to nurture the development of the “hard” and “soft” skills that are necessary to become effective change agents.
ATTENTION TEACHERS!
Get A Salad Bar for Your School
Potatoes USA is promoting healthy meal choices by donating salad bars to K-12 schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program. In the past year, the potato industry has become the largest donator to the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools program in the produce sector.
Read more here: http://growers.potatoesusa.com/resources/salad-bar
Instructions to apply: http://growers.potatoesusa.com/sites/default/files/How%20Do%20Schools%20Apply%20for%20a%20Salad%20Bar_0.pdf
🎄🎄Merry Christmas from Cawaco!🎄🎄
🎄🎄Merry Christmas from Cawaco!🎄🎄
Fire safety tips we all should remember! Please read and share!
Put a freeze on winter fires!
The United States Fire Administration (USFA) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) are once again teaming up to promote winter fire safety through their joint campaign, “Put a Freeze on Winter Fires.” The goal of the campaign is to educate the public on increased fire risks during ...
You can be a part of great projects just by shopping !!!!! Use the link below. Amazon will donate .5% of your purchase to support Cawaco programs such as first responder support, school and small town/neighborhood revitalization. Help us help others!