Earth Balloon®

Organizations that host Earth Balloon programs fund them in a wide variety of ways:

1. Write grant requests to the educational foundations in their communities or affiliated with their schools.
2. Hold community-wide fund-raisers and include evening programs in the schedule for supporters and parents.
3. Parent-teacher organizations that dedicate a portion of their fundraising money for this program.
4. Divide the cost of the program by the number of student participants and handle it like a field trip (usually $2-3 per student).
5. Identify business partners in their community who are concerned about environmental and science issues who help underwrite all, or a portion, of the cost.
6. Collaborate with other organizations in their community so that Earth Balloon facilitators are in a local community, but visiting several schools throughout a week.
7. Partner with local Nature Centers, Horticultural and Botanical Gardens
8. Smaller schools partner and combine their student bodies, sharing costs and facilities.
9. Invite home-schoolers in the area for a fee to help underwrite the cost.
10. Some public organizations charge an admission fee.
11. Combine these strategies.

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