Sustainable Environments Grants Descriptions
Greater New Orleans Foundation
New Orleans, LA | $50,000
To provide high-level New Orleans officials and NGO leaders with 'sister city' learning opportunities regarding green infrastructure strategies for storm and surface water management.
Category: Urban Water Management
Green For All
Oakland, CA | $5,000
To advance various forms of storytelling and enhanced communications efforts related to clean economy and next generation infrastructure program goals.
Category: Discretionary
Groundswell
Washington, DC | $15,000
To support the growth of Groundswell's unique, innovative civic consumption model within the clean energy sector. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Category: Discretionary
Institute for Sustainable Communities
Montpelier, VT | $300,000 (24 months)
Continued support for ISC's Sustainable Communities Leadership Academy, a peer-learning, training and technical assistance program designed to help communities advance, accelerate and scale-up local solutions to the global challenges of climate protection.
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
ISAIAH
St. Paul, MN | $150,000 (24 months)
Build public support for state and regional efforts to improve equitable distribution of investment for transit and transportation infrastructure; and develop and plan a campaign to create good jobs for low-income Twin Cities' residents. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Category: Sustainable Transportation Networks & Equitable Development Patterns
Island Press
Washington, DC | $25,000
To publish and disseminate a guide - complete with advice, tools, and case studies - from leaders in the sustainability field that will support projects to advance urban sustainability and resiliency.
Category: Others
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA | $300,000 (36 months)
To launch a five-year national transportation procurement initiative to integrate job creation and quality standards into the purchasing strategy for clean energy vehicles and vehicle parts manufactured for public transit. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Category: Sustainable Transportation Networks & Equitable Development Patterns
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA | $10,000
To support the attendance of Professors Marcy Lowe and Sue Helper at a meeting convened by the Brookings Institution mid-December.
Category: Discretionary
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA | $40,000
To provide communications support for LAANE's national transportation 'best value' procurement initiative.
Category: Sustainable Transportation Networks & Equitable Development Patterns
Meridian Institute
Dillon, CO | $250,000 (24 months)
To support AGree's eight-year initiative to transform food and agriculture policy.
Category: Regional Food Supply