AASA, The School Superintendents Association, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for more than 10,000 educational leaders in the United States and throughout the world. AASA advocates for the highest quality public education for all students, and develops and supports school system leaders.
Contact: Web: www.aasa.org
Established in 1921, Council of Educational Facility Planners International is a worldwide professional 501 (c)(3) nonprofit association whose sole mission is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI members, individuals, institutions and corporations are actively involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining schools and colleges. CEFPI embraces a diverse community of more than 4,000 professionals with one single goal – building healthy, safe, sustainable and resilient 21st century learning environments. CEFPI members include architects, planners, engineers, K- 12 administrators, higher education professors, construction management firms, facility maintenance and operations professionals, consultants, manufacturers, suppliers, and state and provincial agency representatives.
Contact: Web: www.cefpi.org
Phone: 1-480-391-0840
The Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S) at the University of California, Berkeley harnesses the potential of urban planning to close the opportunity gap and improve education. CC+S’s research, policy reports and best practice tools are used across the country to support new approaches to school facility investment, school siting, transportation infrastructure, affordable housing, community engagement in planning, school reform, and more. Informed by the growing evidence that educational facilities contribute to student achievement and community quality, CC+S provides thoughtful, objective, and empirically-driven research and policy and practice recommendations to federal, state, and local leaders to ensure high quality learning environments for all children in schools that are sustainable centers of communities.
Contact: Web: http://citiesandschools.berkeley.edu
ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate through superior energy efficiency.
The ENERGY STAR program was established by EPA in 1992, under the authority of the Clean Air Act Section 103(g). Section103(g) of the Clean Air Act directs the Administrator to "conduct a basic engineering research and technology program to develop, evaluate, and demonstrate non–regulatory strategies and technologies for reducing air pollution." In 2005, Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act. Section 131 of the Act amends Section 324 (42 USC 6294) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, and "established at the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency a voluntary program to identify and promote energy–efficient products and buildings in order to reduce energy consumption, improve energy security, and reduce pollution through voluntary labeling of or other forms of communication about products and buildings that meet the highest energy efficiency standards."
Contact: Web: https://www.energystar.gov/
The Healthy Facilities Institute® (HFI) Educational Center and Website strives to provide authoritative information for creating and maintaining clean, healthy indoor environments. Since buildings are ecosystems, HFI works to address the many interrelated aspects of built environments — such as air, water, energy, materials and resources, green cleaning, indoor environmental quality, waste management, people and more — as an integrated or holistic system. Inasmuch as “Clean” is a metaphor for healthy indoor spaces, HFI also emphasizes prevention and removal of pollutants or contaminants to help ensure optimum conditions for living, learning and working.
Contact: Web: The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI)
Phone: (208) 938-3137
Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making schools healthier places for all students. HSC believes that health and wellness should be incorporated into every aspect of the school experience. Founded in 2002, HSC advocates for children to have better access to nutritious school food, physical activity, school health resources and clean air to shape their lifelong learning and health. HSC facilitates collaboration between students, parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers to help prepare this diverse group of stakeholders to lead change for healthier schools at the school, district, state and national levels.
Contact: Web: Healthy Schools Campaign
Phone: 312-419-1810
Healthy Schools Network, Inc., founded in 1995, is the leading national voice for children's environmental health at school and a national-award-winning 501(c)3 not-for-profit environmental health organization. Our policy campaigns address three core facets of environmental health at school:
1) child-safe standards for school design, construction, and siting
2) child-safe policies for housekeeping and purchasing (targeting indoor air pollutants, mercury, pesticides and other toxics, and the use of safer substitutes)
3) environmental public health services for children in harm's way
To assist parents with health-impacted children, we developed the EPA-award-winning Healthy Schools/Healthy Kids Clearinghouse©, which offers dozens of fact sheets, guides, and peer-reviewed reports. Its first two parent guides (indoor air, green cleaning) have been nationally distributed since 1999.
Contact Web: http://healthyschools.org/.
The Coalition for Community Schools, housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership(IEL), is an alliance of national, state and local organizations in education K–16, youth development, community planning and development, higher education, family support, health and human services, government, and philanthropy as well as national, state, and local community school networks. The Coalition advocates for community schools as a strategy to leverage local resources and programs, changing the look and feel of the traditional school structure to best meet the needs of children and families in the 21st century.
Contact: Web: www.communityschools.org.
Phone: 202 822 8405
The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment is one of ten Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) in the United States. The Mid-Atlantic Center serves the states in federal Region III: Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Mid-Atlantic Center provides educational programming and consultations at no cost to those in the Mid-Atlantic region. Anyone - parent, community member, physician, nurse, public health official, can contact the Mid-Atlantic Center to receive academic, unbiased, and science-based answers to questions on environmental health topics. Residents of the Mid-Atlantic can also request a speaker to present on an environmental health topic at annual or noon conferences, webinars, staff meetings, brown bag lunches or grand rounds.
Contact: Web: http://coe.sdsu.edu/edl/
Phone: 619-594-3949
The National Council on School Facilities is a nonprofit organization of state K–12 public school facilities leaders. Its mission is to support states in their varied roles and responsibilities for the delivery of safe, healthy, and educationally appropriate school facilities that are sustainable and fiscally sound. The National Council is structured to be governed by the leaders of the education facilities agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and the U.S. territories.
Contact: Web: http://www.facilitiescouncil.org/ncsf-home/
The National Education Foundation (NEF), the national nonprofit leader in STEM and school facilities financing grants (QZAB), founded in 1989, is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area. NEF is the national nonprofit leader bridging the academic, financial, facilities and job skills divides by helping schools to secure funds with NEF matching grants and by providing high quality affordable 21st Century education to millions of students and jobseekers in partnership with the State University of New York (SUNY).
Contact: www.cyberlearning.org - www.qzab.org
Phone: 703-823-9999
The NREA (National Rural Education Association) was originally founded as the Department of Rural Education in 1907. It is the oldest established national organization of its kind in the United States. Through the years it has evolved as a strong and respected organization of rural school administrators, teachers, board members, regional service agency personnel, researchers, business and industry representatives, and others interested in maintaining the vitality of rural school systems across the country.
Contact: Web: www.nrea.net
Phone: 765-494-0086
The National School Plant Management Association, NSPMA, was formed in the interest of enhancing and promoting the educational process. Its purpose is to provide for the exchange of information that improves school plant management, maintenance and care through the promotion of acceptable policies, standards and practices; and to promote the professional advancement of school plant management personnel. Membership includes school superintendents, maintenance personnel, custodial supervisors, and others employed in school operations.
Contact: Web: http://nspma.org/
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU). Located in every region of the U.S., as well as in Canada, and Mexico, PEHSU professionals provide quality medical consultation for health professionals, parents, caregivers, and patients. The PEHSUs are dedicated to increasing environmental medicine knowledge among healthcare professionals around children’s environmental health by providing consultation and training. Please consult www.pehsu.net to find the health care provider for your area.
Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools® (PC4HS™) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission of “schools helping schools.” The process optimizes efficiency, cleanliness, ease of deployment and health factors through a carefully designed and documented system tailored for K-12 school districts and higher education.
Contact: Website: www.pc4hf.org
Email: info@pc4hf.com
The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center supports schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education, with their community partners, in the development of high-quality emergency operations plans and comprehensive emergency management planning efforts. Established in October 2004 and administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students, the REMS TA Center provides a hub of information, resources, training, and services in the field of school and higher ed emergency operations planning. Along with a comprehensive Website, the REMS TA Center offers virtual trainings, FREE live trainings by request, targeted technical assistance, a variety of interactive planning tools and resources, a Tool Box of state and local resources, as well as a Community of Practice for emergency management practitioners to collaborate in a virtual space. To learn more about the REMS TA Center, visit their site, address below.
Contact Web: http://rems.ed.gov
Email: info@remstacenter.org
Phone: 1-855-781-REMS [7367]
REAL School Gardens creates learning gardens that grow successful students.
To do this, we partner with corporations to build learning gardens in low-income schools. We then provide three years of hands-on on-site training to empower teachers to use the garden as a tool to improve academic instruction. We also offer our garden-design services to schools under construction, to help ensure that the finished outdoor space is as integral to the learning environment as the computer lab or the library. Schools with existing gardens can activate them for Math, Science, and Language Arts instruction with our teacher training packages.
Contact: www.realschoolgardens.org
Contact: Web: Schoolsitinginfo.com
Email: schoolsitinginfo@gmail.com
Phone: 406-698-2992
The 21st Century School Fund (21CSF) was founded in 1994 on the premise that communities are responsible for creating healthy, safe, and educationally appropriate learning environments. 21CSF conducts research, develops policy proposals, engages communities, develops technology tools and offers technical assistance to improve public school facilities, particularly for low income communities. 21CSF believes that every child should learn in an educationally appropriate, healthy and safe school that serves as a community anchor and is built and maintained in an environmentally and fiscally responsible manner.
Contact: Web: www.21CSF.org
Email: info@21csf.org
Phone: 1-202-745-3745
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