No Child Left Inside

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DNR grants help children begin a lifetime of outdoor experiences


The Minnesota DNR is pleased to announce another phase of the No Child Left Inside grant program. These grants help more children cast a line, study animal tracks, hike or bike, or simply learn more about nature. Public entities and nonprofit organizations serving youth younger than 18, including Native American tribes, schools or governments, can apply for No Child Left Inside grants.

The Minnesota DNR is accepting applications for both mini grants (less than $5,000) and larger grants ($5,000 to $25,000). The request for proposals and application instructions can be found at the link below. Applications will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

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If you have additional questions regarding the No Child Left Inside grants, please contact outreachgrant.dnr@state.mn.us or log on during our virtual office hours on Thursday, November 30 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. and 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Password = NCLI)

A recorded info session can also be viewed on the DNR's YouTube channel.     

[dutchboy]

I'm all for getting kids involved in the outdoors. However I wonder how much these grants really do? Wouldn't you get more bang for the buck discounting license to adults when including kids in the activity? How would you document this? I have no idea but there needs to be a way in 2023 to figure it out.

I just have a problem with giving money away (grants).

Anyway, regardless how it's done get the kids outside.

[Steve-o]

You are right.  When you start a program with grants, the benefits are usually not sustainable.  Interest generally wanes when the money runs out.

I agree, it all sounds like a good idea, but governments only know how to attack problems one way... with money...  yours.

[Pulleye16]

I feel the DNR is distancing themselves from hunting. Just my opinion. I love to hunt and fish but wouldn’t give them one extra cent. I donate time and money to help with kids I know that need it.

[Steve-o]

I feel the DNR is distancing themselves from hunting. Just my opinion.

Yes, because they KNOW the wolves are going to eat all the deer and there isn't anything they can do about it.*  And by the time the wolves start eating livestock and pets, and the gub'ment FINALLY allows some sort of wolf management, they will NEVER allow wolves to be culled to levels that will allow white tail deer to recover in the north country.  Just my opinion.


*They also know they can't overcome all the anti-gun rhetoric that city kids are indoctrinated with in school - so there is scant hope that kids raised in metro areas will suddenly become interested in hunting.

[dutchboy]

Hunting is suffering for one reason only. The swamps are dried up and the trees cut down for fields. There almost zero duck and Pheasant hunting in Minnesota compared to when I was a kid. I think the schools that can afford trap teams are doing well. I know the school fishing leagues are booming. Wolves are a problem for the Deer population.

[LPS]

I agree.  This grant is an attempt to keep it all going.  Would be nice if it got a few kids into the outdoors and that they turn a few friends or family members into it too.  There is no success or no success it is how many kids did we reach.  Without hunters and fishers the DNR money will dry up.  Then let the acivists take care of everything and see how it goes.  Will collapse.