Columbus Audubon offers the Conservation Grant Program to support the conservation of Ohio’s native bird species through habitat management efforts, habitat protection (through easements or acquisition) and scientific research.

The Conservation Grant Program offers financial support for innovative habitat management, habitat protection, and scientific research projects, especially in central Ohio. Funding is open to non-profit organizations, businesses, clubs, educational institutions, and individuals.

The Bird-Friendly Communities initiative is aimed at helping people to make bird-friendly lifestyle choices in their homes, backyards, and communities, including:

• Native Plants for Birds

By simply choosing native plants when they landscape their yards, neighborhood parks, and public spaces, they can help restore vital habitat for birds in their communities.

• Lights Out: Creating Safe Passage

Cities across the flyways are turning off their lights at night, reducing the disorienting effect of light pollution, thereby saving millions of birds each year, including Magnolia Warblers, American Woodcocks, and Yellow-billed Cuckoos.

• Avian Architecture

Providing Good Homes for Birds From Prothonotary Warblers and Chimney Swifts to Osprey and Eastern Screech-Owls, many species of birds can be given a better chance to survive and thrive through a little assistance from structures we build—birdhouses, roosting towers, and nest platforms. For some species, these structures tip the scales back in their favor, reducing declines in populations and restoring species to places they once inhabited.

Grant Information

• Grant requests can be made for up to $3000 for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations and education institutions, and up to $1500 for businesses, clubs and organizations not registered as 501(c)(3), and individuals.
• Awarded funds shall be used within 1 year from award date.

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, businesses, clubs and organizations not registered as 501(c)(3,) educational institutions, and individuals.

For more information, visit Columbus Audubon.