With $250 from Tennessee Bird Brigade, FI is excited to be able to provide more materials and resources for our Beginning Birders Program. This program is being catered towards historically excluded and underrepresented groups, communities, and organizations of all ages and socioeconomic groups. Our ambitious goal would be that success with such a program could lead to similar programs at other parks or nature centers.

With $2500 from Tracy Aviary, FI is excited to offer one travel award and one research award for the 2024-2025 year. These awards help to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, as well as help them attend a professional conference, workshop, or training.

With $1000 from Wake Audubon Society, FI is excited to offer two research awards for the 2025 year. These awards help to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, and can be used towards equipment purchases, field housing, transportation, or technician salary. Learn More.

With $4000 from Wilson Ornithological Society, FI is excited to offer our joint summer fellowship with Cape Fear Bird Observatory for the second year (2024) and a travel award for the 2024 year. This fellowship encourages nominations of individuals with marginalized and historically excluded identities whose institutions have limited capacity to provide field opportunities, such as small HBCUs, MSIs, and Tribal Colleges. Travel awards helps to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, and can be used towards equipment purchases, field housing, transportation, or technician salary. Learn More.

With $2500 from Conservation Nation, FI is excited to offer one travel award and one research award for the 2024-2025 year. These awards help to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, as well as help them attend a professional conference, workshop, or training.

With $500 from New Hope Audubon Society, FI is excited to offer one research award for the 2025 year. This award helps to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, and can be used towards equipment purchases, field housing, transportation, or technician salary. Learn More.

With $500 from North Carolina Sea Grant, FI is excited to offer one research award for the 2025 year. This award helps to support underrepresented applicants who participate in natural science field work, and can be used towards equipment purchases, field housing, transportation, or technician salary. Learn More.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Research Triangle Park in NC

With a grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund ($37,000; PI:Lauren D. Pharr), this will enable Field Inclusive to continue the mission to provide tangible and actionable improvements in the natural resources by addressing social field safety issues related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) with the develop of online social field safety training modules. Learn More.

Animal Behavior Society

Glenview, IL

With a grant from Animal Behavior Society ($1,000; PI: Lauren D. Pharr), this will enable Field Inclusive to support our Beginning Birders Program, which is being catered to all ages and socioeconomic groups, in an area with considerable racial diversity. Our ambitious goal would be that success with such a program could lead to similar programs at other parks or nature centers. Items like binoculars, field guides, and any bird friendly/nature activities for goody bags would be greatly appreciated. Learn More.

Sphyrnas Organization

Brimfield, MA

Sphyrnas Organization has donated 14 pairs of binoculars to support our Beginning Birders Program, which is being catered to all ages and socioeconomic groups, in an area with considerable racial diversity. Our ambitious goal would be that success with such a program could lead to similar programs at other parks or nature centers. Items like binoculars, field guides, and any bird friendly/nature activities for goody bags would be greatly appreciated. Learn More.

Wake Audubon

Raleigh, NC

Wake Audubon has partnered with Field Inclusive to offer a Beginning Birders Program which is being catered to all ages and socioeconomic groups, in an area with considerable racial diversity. Our ambitious goal would be that success with such a program could lead to similar programs at other parks or nature centers. Items like binoculars, field guides, and any bird friendly/nature activities for goody bags would be greatly appreciated. Learn More.

Cape Fear Bird Observatory

Wilmington, NC

Cape Fear Bird Observatory has partnered with Field Inclusive to offer a bird banding fellowship opportunity for summer 2023. Skills that will be gained include point count and banding experience on six sites from Wilmington to Sunset Beach. In line with the goals of Field Inclusive, we strongly encourage nominations of individuals with marginalized and historically excluded identities whose institutions have limited capacity to provide field opportunities, such as small HBCUs, MSIs, and Tribal Colleges. Learn More.

We thank our sponsors of this fellowship, Cape Fear Bird Observatory and Wilson Ornithological Society.

North Carolina State University College of Natural Resources

Raleigh, NC

NCSU’s College of Natural Resources has partnered with Field Inclusive for this year’s 2023 Crowdfunding project: CNR Field Safety Gear. This project will help to raise money for field safety gear (car magnets, visors, personalized ID badges, field vests–all housed with our colleges logo (right)) for students who are completing field work in CNR. The goal is for this gear to provide an extra barrier of safety for our researchers who feel that they may need it while working in the outdoors in high-risk areas. Templates of these items will also be available to other colleges at NCSU, as well as other institutions and organizations to use.