The Everglades Foundation

On this Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate and honor the story of “Popeye” Osceola – the youngest member of the?Miccosukee Tribe of Indians Business Council, an?Everglades?advocate, and an avid skater who helped found the?Miccosukee Trail Skate Park. South Florida and what we now call Miami is the ancestral land of Native People who have protected the Everglades for decades. “My grandfather impressed upon me the need to protect this land as it protected us,” says Osceola in his?Everglades Story. Click the link below to watch more Everglades Stories From Across the Watershed ?? https://lnkd.in/eQGPk6Cw

Early giving for Give Miami Day kicks off TODAY! By donating to The Everglades Foundation, you can directly support Everglades education for PreK-12 Miami-Dade County students! ???? Swipe through to learn how each of our giving levels support students, and click the link below to donate. Then, mark your calendar and stay tuned for more this Give Miami Day on Thursday, November 21st! https://lnkd.in/eZ2tinRj

Thank you, Collier Community Foundation, for honoring The Everglades Foundation with the 2024 Harvey Kapnick Award at your Celebration of Philanthropy! Our CEO Eric Eikenberg was grateful to have joined this incredible event. The Harvey Kapnick Award recognizes nonprofits that exemplify program excellence, and it is our team’s great honor to champion excellence in Everglades restoration. Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees!

In the final Preserving Paradise 2024 session, the program’s inaugural cohort saw Everglades Restoration up close with a tour of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir and the Caloosahatchee River (C-43) West Basin Storage Reservoir. A partnership with The Everglades Foundation, Captains For Clean Water, and the Sanibel Captiva Chamber of Commerce, the program brought together 20 regional business leaders, immersing them in water quality science and advocacy. Click to read more from Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) on this year’s final trip and how #EvergladesRestoration directly impacts our local economies ??

Join us in giving a warm welcome to this year’s incoming class of ForEverglades Fellows! ?? Showcasing the national importance of America’s Everglades, this year’s class will conduct cutting-edge research on a wide range of scientific topics and fields and features students from across the country including from Florida International University, Cornell University, Georgia Southern University, Florida Gulf Coast University, University of California, Davis, and the University of Pennsylvania. The Everglades Foundation’s ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grants are made possible thanks to the support of Patrick P. Lee Foundation, Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Outdoor Fund, the Green Family Foundation, VoLo Foundation, Florida International University, The Woodbury Foundation, The Farmer Family Foundation, The Crawford Taylor Foundation, and The Batchelor Foundation. Swipe through to meet each student and click our blog link below to learn about their exciting research projects ?? https://lnkd.in/eNSpc73A

Lawmakers from across the aisle are seeking robust Everglades restoration funding in their 2026 budget request, following The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s recent report. Click to read our Vice President of Policy Bradley Watson’s quote featured in E&E News ??

The Everglades Foundation’s Everglades Literacy Program team of educators recently attended the Florida Association of Science Supervisors and the Florida Association of Science Teachers conferences. We connected with more than 500 teachers statewide through hosting an Everglades Literacy Teacher Training and presenting two sessions to bring Everglades Literacy to the classroom. One of our sessions highlighted our amazing partnership with Inwater Research Group, Inc., co-presenting a session titled How Nonprofits Support Place-Based Environmental Education in the Classroom. We are proud to work with other science-based organizations that create meaningful, hands-on, and experiential environmental education for teachers and students statewide. It was an absolutely pleasure working with Rebecca Mott and Yashira Cruz Rodriguez, M.A. from IRG and with my fellow teammates Tate Vangellow and Tessa Whalen.

Did you know that November is typically the month when manatees return to warm waters in Florida – including the Everglades? Kick off Manatee Awareness Month with us by sharing these fun facts about the beloved gentle giants that glide through our waters ??

Did you catch our “Miami’s Water and The Everglades” video series? ?? ?? ?? From the Everglades to the #BiscayneBay aquifer, through canals, the Biscayne Bay and to your tap – Miami Waterkeeper's Rachel Silverstein, Ph.D. and our own Meenakshi Chabba, Ph.D. took us on a journey to understand why “It’s All about the Water”. By watching, liking, and sharing this series, you helped bring this journey to life and educate others on why this matters! Our organizations' year-round work of protecting South Florida’s water is only possible when our communities understand its importance in their day-to-day lives. It is thanks to supporters like Knight Foundation and The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation that we can work together towards a more resilient Miami-Dade County! Missed an episode? Watch the full playlist on YouTube ?? https://lnkd.in/gH76qZHG

Congratulations to our graduating '23-24 class of ForEverglades Fellows! ?? From studying Everglades wildlife like sharks, to microplastics pollution, species diversity, and much more – we could not be prouder of the work that this year’s class has accomplished. For 17 years, our ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grant has supported outstanding graduate students pursuing innovative scientific research to advance the restoration and protection America’s Everglades. This class included students from Florida International University, Cornell University, Georgia Southern University, Florida Gulf Coast University, University of California, Davis, and the University of Pennsylvania. These critical scientific grants are made possible thanks to the support of Patrick P. Lee Foundation, Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Outdoor Fund, The Green Family Foundation, Florida International University, VoLo Foundation, The Woodbury Foundation, The Farmer Family Foundation, The Crawford Taylor Foundation, and The Batchelor Foundation. Stay tuned to meet the 2024-2025 class of ForEverglades Fellows soon!