RFP - Environmental Education Curriculum Designer

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About the Organization

The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. We work towards making responsible business the new normal through our certification program, tailored supply chain services, landscape and community work and advocacy.

About the Proposal

The Rainforest Alliance has a legacy K-12 environmental educational curriculum that we have offered to educators for free for the past 20 years.  Available at https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/environmental-curriculum/, it offers lesson plans and activities that teach children about the rainforest and how to conserve it.  When it was developed, it met Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards.

We are seeing a consultant to update this curriculum to align with the Rainforest Alliance’s current scope of work and suggest a format and design that is most useful in today’s classrooms. 

Main Objectives

• Learn about the Rainforest Alliance’s work and how major themes can be taught to school children.
• Work with project team to send a survey to our email database of teachers to solicit ideas and get feedback; analyze results and incorporate into project.
• Develop new lessons for K-12 students, meeting major US national standards.  Curriculum could be done by grade clusters or based on key conservation concepts appropriate at variety of grade levels.
• Advise on best formatting for today’s teaching preferences to inform graphic design/layout phase of project.
• Recommend accompanying materials and activities to supplement curriculum.

Contractor Services at a minimum, must include

• Demonstrated experience developing environmental education curriculum for school-aged children.
• Understanding and experience with recognized U.S. national education standards
• Ability to join team calls and provide regular project status updates

Eligibility

• Proposals and/or any additional information received after the submission time and date are subject to rejection by The Rainforest Alliance. Incomplete proposals may be rejected by RA at its discretion.

• The Rainforest Alliance reserves the right to request additional information at any time during the procurement process.
• RA is at liberty to make multiple or no selections as part of the proposal process. RA also reserves the right to cancel the procurement.
• All proposal costs shall be borne by the applicant and will not be reimbursed by RA.

How to Apply

Email and contact to submit and deadline: Melissa Normann, mnormann@ra.org, deadline is June 15

Proposals should contain:

• Work plan/technical proposal/methodology/timeline for deliverables (depends on technical needs of project)
• Fixed price financial proposal
• List of previous experience that addresses the above experience desired
• Current C.V.(S)
• Contact details of recent references

State when finalists will be notified of their selection: July 1, 2025

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