The Parrot Grant Program
The Flight Club Foundation’s objective and mission is to support the wide variety of programs offered to help people and parrots alike. One method to offer this support is our Parrot Grant Program. A program where we award grant money to non-profit organisations who either help parrots, people or both. Our selection is based on many elements including by not limited to: community impact, educational value, financial responsibility, and role by which parrot awareness can be raised or fostered.
All Parrot Grant Awardees are invited to join Seattle Parrot Expo as an exhibitor with no booth fee as a part of their Grant awards. Macaw Rescue and Sanctuary has joined us each year. Indonesian Parrot Project joined us in 2018 and now, in 2021, The Bird Endowment! If you feel your organization should be nominted, please contact our President, Debbie Goodrich at: flightclubofundation@gmail.com.
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2024
One Earth Conservation
We are committed to people, parrots, and peace through conservation projects in Latin America where communities protect their biodiversity, birds, and wildlife, encouraging self and societal transformation, promoting intersectional and climate justice.​
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The Parrot Crisis Summit 2024 virtual summit will include, over two half-days, panels that will focus on the harm parrots suffer in the wild, parrots in captivity, the people where parrots live, ecosystems and the climate. Join in with us!
https://www.allianceforparrots.org/2024-parrot-crisis-summit
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​The free, virtual Parrot Crisis Summit will include, over 2 half-days, panels who will focus on the harm happening to parrots in the wild, parrots in captivity, the peoples where parrots live, and ecosystems and the climate. Please join us!
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Flight Club Foundation will award $1000.
2023
The Macaw Society
The Macaw Society (previously known as the Tambopata Macaw Project) is a long-term research study of the ecology and conservation of macaws and parrots that started in 1999. Lead by Dr. Donald J. Brightsmith and Dr. Gabriela Vigo-Trauco of the Schubot Center for Avian Health at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS), it has switched its focus since 2020.
Dr. Brightsmith’s team was not the first one to work with macaws in the area. However, they were the first to collect scientific information that produced clear documentation of the natural history and ecology of the parrots and macaws in Tambopata—and make it available to the public. His team now ranks as one of the best in the world when it comes to macaw research and conservation.
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Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2021
Birds Caribbean
BirdsCaribbean is a vibrant international network of members and partners committed to conserving Caribbean birds and their habitats in the insular Caribbean (including Bermuda, the Bahamas and all islands within the Caribbean basin).
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Our mission is to raise awareness, promote sound science, and empower local partners to build a region where people appreciate, conserve and benefit from thriving bird populations and ecosystems.
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Together with our partners, we develop regional projects to achieve our shared bird conservation goals. We also work to engage people of all ages in learning about birds—their beauty, value and why it is important to protect them. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2021
Everlasting Hope
Every companion who comes to Everlasting Hope Rescue-Sanctuary is treated with the utmost respect, compassion, dignity and care. Having a wonderful team of supporters, volunteers and board members and the best vet ever, will help us achieve giving the very best to those who depend on us. We believe that making a difference is the most important part of running a rescue-sanctuary. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2020
United Corridors Project
United Corridors AC is on a mission to connect and enhance habitats through biological corridors to prevent species extinctions. United Corridors AC uses interactive, participatory projects with communities to achieve education, reforestation, and vigilance to conserve and protect species and habitats. One of our approaches is to conserve the Green Macaw through a network of communities in a citizen science project to monitor and protect those macaws that are endangered in Mexico. The vision of United Corridors AC, in collaboration with other NGOs is to use the Green Macaw as a flagship species to inspire other monitoring, surveillance, and education projects to restore habitat and reconnect nature's wildlands, restoring ecosystems in the Americas. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2019
Laney Rickman Blue-Throated Macaw Memorial Fund
The Laney Rickman Memorial Fund operates in conjunction with Armonia Bolivia and American Bird Conservancy. This reserve hosts the largest population of native Blue Throat macaw breeding populations in Bolivia. The Fund helped purchase this reserve and also help maintain the perpetuity of the Blue Throat Macaw Nest Box Program Laney began called The Bird Endowment. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2018
Indonesian Parrot Project
Indonesian Parrot Project was founded by Stewart Metz, aviculturist and pet owner, who visited Indonesia, learning about the plight of the parrots in the wild (2001). Now, IPP is a crticial element in the rehabilitation and release of confiscated Indonesian parrots. They also monitor and track the illegal wildlife trade and develop pride campaigns to encourage local communities to keep the wild, wild. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000.
2017
Puerto Rican Parrot Project
The Puerto Rican Parrot Project began with 13 parrots surviving in the wild as of 1975 and now boasts over 400 birds in the wild from captive rearing and release of several generations of parrots. Managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Puerto Rican Parrot Project serves the last known endemic species of the United States. Flight Club Foundation awarded $1000
2015
The Alex Foundation
The goal of The Alex Foundation is to support research that will expand the base of knowledge establishing the cognitive and communicative abilities of parrots as intelligent beings. These findings will be used to encourage the responsible ownership of parrots, conservation and preservation of parrots in the wild, and veterinary research into the psychological diseases and care of these birds. Flight Club awarded $2,000.
2014
Chirping Central
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The Bird Endowment
Project Flight Plan, supported by Chirping Central, was the work of rowing in the name of bird conservation. Chirping Central worked as a network for smaller NGOs to get in touch with funding sources. The Bird Endowment was the original nest box program created by Laney Rickman to help endangered Blue Throated Macaws in Bolivia. Flight Club awarded $250 for each program.
