This grant provided full funding to bring two groups of students from Fort Bragg Middle School to PEEC in the fall of 2024 for our 4 day program!

Funding for this grants program is made possible by sales of the WHALE TAIL® License Plate, donations to the Protect Our Coast and Oceans Fund on the California state tax return, and funds from the State of California. Please consider clicking on the license plate image to register for an official DMV WHALE TAIL® License Plate!

This grant provided scholarships targeted to help schools add on an additional day to their existing Spring 2025 program, and thus get a more holistic education in our environment.

The Calpine Community Benefits Grant Program, in partnership with Calpine Energy Solutions, provides grant funding to organizations in the communities that SCP serves to help advance clean energy, green jobs, environmental education and stewardship, and equity and diversity. Calpine awards funding and collaborates with SCP on the grant guidelines and to promote the program. Both organizations work together to assess applications.

PEEC was nominated by our local community members to present at the fall 2024 100 Women Strong event, and generously received funding to go towards our special projects donation fund.

100 Women Strong is:

• An opportunity to build a local, giving circle that pools funds and energy to support our local organizations.

• A model that gathers 100+ community members, asking each person (or group of people) to donate $100. The money is pooled and donated to a nominated nonprofit, selected by the contributing members during a celebratory gathering.

• A global movement that utilizes local networks to support the organizations that power our communities. The movement is volunteer-led and 100% of the profits go to the selected organization for their area of identified need. 

Please click on the 100 Women Strong Mendocino Coast logo to learn more about this amazing program!

Former Director of PEEC and current Board Treasurer Chris Williams, has been hard at work donating his time, funds, and energy into building a new, semi-permanent dining hall pavilion.

As many of you know PEEC has long had our “burning man” tent dining hall, which was an endeavor to put up in the fall and take down each June before summer state park campers arrived. Having to put up our 7 platform tent cabins in addition to the dining hall tent each new school year was a serious additional burden on staff.

Now the dining hall pavilion will stay up through the summer camper season - a big relief for all! Pacific Environmental Education Center would like to thank Chris and his brother Mark for building our wonderful new dining hall!