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Surdna Announces New Director of Sustainable Environments Program

knapikThe Surdna Foundation announced today that Michelle Knapik has been named as the new Director of its Sustainable Environments Program.  Ms. Knapik will join the Foundation in mid-July, and succeeds Sharon Alpert who now serves as Surdna's Senior Director of Programs and Strategy.

For the past six years Ms. Knapik has been the Environment Program Director at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey.  In that role, she developed innovative grantmaking strategies to support sustainable community solutions, in close partnership with grantees, civic and business leaders, and funding colleagues in the region.  While at Dodge, Ms. Knapik also worked closely with the Foundation's  Arts and Culture program, funding projects at the intersection of the environment, culture and New Jersey's creative economy.

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The New Policy Institute (NPI) is a non-partisan think tank based in Washington D.C. Its mission is to imagine and build a 21st century America capable of meeting the challenges of our time. NPI’s work with Surdna Foundation focuses on the Next Economy Partnership Project, a program devoted to advancing an economy based on bottom-up development and low-carbon outcomes.

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