Texas EcoSchools

Our spring events are fluttering in! We have events happening this May in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. Swipe through for details on celebrating the wonderful garden projects students and their school communities have been participating in this year.

Thank you to our funders for making one or more of these events possible: Our Texas Our Future, The Powell Foundation, , , The Faye L. and William L. Cowden Charitable Foundation, The George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, The Joan and Herb Kelleher Foundation, The Susan Vaughan Foundation, and The Winkler Family Foundation. 🦋

Next weekend in Austin!

A huge thank you to H-E-B for their generous donation to the NWF Monarch Heroes Program in the Dallas-Fort Worth area! Your support is helping us protect and restore vital monarch butterfly habitats, empowering the next generation of conservationists. Together, we’re making a lasting impact on these incredible creatures and our planet! 💚

We are thrilled to be a part of the EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellowship 2025 cohort, an initiative that seeks to expand opportunities for early-career environmentalists while simultaneously addressing capacity limitations for nonprofits.

We are excited to introduce you to the Green Leader who will be amplifying the work of our organization over the course of the Fellowship:

Aly Foreman will help the Texas education team to link our Texas-based programs and collaborative efforts to EcoSchools US campaigns.

As a member of EarthShare Texas, National Wildlife Federation receives support from the nonprofit federation through unrestricted funding and capacity support. The Green Leaders Fellowship program is a nuanced solution addresses Green Workforce constraints while building the green leadership pipeline. Follow along at and !
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Apply for EarthShare Texas’ Green Leaders Fellowship program; join our team and make a difference!

We are thrilled to announce our participation in EarthShare Texas’ Green Leaders Fellowship 2025 cohort as a nonprofit host! The mission of the EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellowship is to foster a vibrant and diverse Green Workforce that will lead Texas in sustainable development, creating a positive impact in our communities and throughout our state.

National Wildlife Federation's Texas Education Team will be working alongside a green leader to develop step-by-step guidance tools and marketing resources to link our Texas-based programs to our national EcoSchools U.S. program. If you are interested in applying for the Fellowship program, visit https://earthshare-texas.org/earthshare-texas-fellowship

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National Wildlife Federation was proud to be part of the Zero Waste Summit in Houston today!

We wanted to congratulate our 2024 NWF Monarch Heroes Austin Awardees one more time. Congrats Gorzycki Middle School, Pleasant Hill Elementary, Manor Elementary Early Learning Center, and Manor Excel Academy. We are so proud of all of your hard work this past year! 🥳🥳

We wrapped up our Spring 2024 Showcase Season this past weekend at to celebrate our Austin Monarch Heroes schools! A big thank you to everyone who came out and joined us!

With live music, paletas, and guest appearances from Ranger Rick himself, we had so much fun learning from our 2023-2024 schools representing and .

A special thank you to our funders who helped us to support and celebrate these bright school teams: Tournament of Champions, Our Texas Our Future, The Powell Foundation, Applied Materials (), , The Winkler Family Foundation, and The Susan Vaughan Foundation!

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past weekend for our Houston Spring Showcase and Celebration at .

Students were able to show off the amazing things they have accomplished over the last year while also enjoying music and art. We got to learn all about our 2023-2024 schools representing , , , , and .

A special thank you to our funders who helped us to support and celebrate these bright school teams: Tournament of Champions, Our Texas Our Future, The Powell Foundation, George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, B-WET Gulf, The Susan Vaughan Foundation, and The Duncan Fund!

Congratulations to the 2024 National Wildlife Federation Monarch Heroes San Antonio Showcase Awardees! Palo Alto Elementary, Nichols Elementary, Briscoe Elementary, and Woodlawn Academy we are so proud of your hard work! 🦋🦋🦋

Thank you to all who came out to celebrate with us at .centro.satx for our Showcase! 

The day was filled with music, art, science, and joy as school teams learned from one another and shared their Monarch Heroes garden projects with the community.

Thank you Tournament of Champions, Our Texas Our Future, 3M (), Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Trust, Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust, and Faye L. and William L. Cowden Charitable Trust for helping us celebrate and support these school teams!