Agriculture
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Bee Friendly Farming
Bee Friendly Farming (BFF) is a certification program from Pollinator Partnership working with farmers to help protect, preserve and promote pollinator health.
Contact: bff@pollinator.org
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Bee Smart® School Garden Kit
We want you to use the Bee Smart™ School Garden Kit to help expose your students to new ideas about food, wildlife, and plants. It should also help students choose behaviors that support their own health, the health of the planet, and all its plants and animals. For students in grades 3 - 6.
Contact: reed@pollinator.org
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Pollinator Steward Certification
Providing home gardeners, land managers, farmers, government, and community scientists with the scientific know-how to make a real difference for pollinators, people, and the planet. Our upcoming program will feature expert topic speakers, the latest pollinator research, and will provide participants with the information needed to become powerful pollinator protectors.
Contact: stewards@pollinator.org
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North American Pollinator Protection Campaign- Conference
NAPPC is a growing, collaborative body of more than 170 diverse partners. Respected scientists, researchers, conservationists, government officials and dedicated volunteers are succeeding with major programs to protect pollinators, to raise pollinator-related issues, and to benefit the health of all species – particularly those most threatened.
Contact: nappc@pollinator.org
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Pollinator Week
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved and designated the third week in June as "National Pollinator Week" and marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations.
Contact: nappc@pollinator.org
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Bee Friendly Gardening
Bee Friendly Gardening (BFG) helps people play a bigger role in the health of pollinators and the planet. More than 85% of U.S. households have an outdoor living space; by converting these areas to much-needed habitat, together we can have a big impact.
Contact: bfg@pollinator.org
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Honey Bee Health Grant
The Honey Bee Health Improvement Project focuses on ways to help honey bees and beekeepers. In the absence of Colony Collapse Disorder, this task force will seek out and secure funding for innovative and important work to understand and promote genetic stock improvements, understand and promote best management practices for commercial beekeeping, and promote forage opportunities for colonies on public and private land.
Contact: nappc@pollinator.org
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The BeeMD
The BeeMD aims to help beekeepers and others concerned with bees quickly identify honey bee health issues, through an interactive, visually rich, informative, and easy to use website.
Contact: james@pollinator.org
Education
Events
Gardening
Honey Bees
Landscape Enhancement
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Project Wingspan
Project Wingspan (PW) is a multi-year landscape-scale project supported by donations, sponsorships, and several grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to work with a coalition of partners and a team of volunteers to increase the quality, quantity, and connectivity of pollinator habitat across the Midwest and Great Lakes Region to support imperiled native pollinators and the habitat they depend on.
Contact: andy@pollinator.org
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Toyota Pollinator Friendly Places
Since September 2021, Pollinator Partnership (P2) has collaborated with Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) to help enhance, protect, and restore vital pollinator habitat across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. This habitat provides a home for pollinators such as bumble bees, honey bees, monarch butterflies, and a whole host of other species that together help sustain food production and ecosystem health throughout North America.
Contact: james@pollinator.org
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Monarch Sustainer Award
The Monarch Sustainer of the Year Award recognizes a US business that has shown exceptional leadership and action in providing habitat and awareness for monarchs along their migratory corridors.
Contact: info@pollinator.org
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Monarch Wings Across America
Monarch Wings Across America (MWAA) is a multi-project initiative that creates habitat and refines science around monarch butterfly issues in the United States to help address the relatively recent alarming decline in monarchs across both its eastern and western populations. So far under the MWAA program, Pollinator Partnership has led four projects across the United States to help promote monarch butterfly populations throughout North America.
Contact: billy@pollinator.org