Grantee Spotlights

 How do you get local and national funders and city sustainability officials to collaborate on community-based sustainability initiatives? One promising answer is the "Local Sustainability Matching Fund" (LSMF), which is a collaborative effort of the Funders’ Network and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN).

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The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBN) is a leader in the creation and integration of entrepreneurial and sustainable business practices, and in establishing new models for business operations that value people, planet and prosperity for all.  Surdna is investing in SBN's work to deepen the impact of the Philadelphia Water Department’s $2 billion investment in "green infrastructure," which is an approach to stormwater management that utilizes a range of "soil-water-plant systems that intercept stormwater, infiltrate a portion of it into the ground, evaporate a portion of it into the air, and in some cases release a portion of it slowly back into the sewer system."

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Alliance for Building Capacity, works to create a more just and sustainable food system through a frame of equity,  inclusion, and racial justice. Comprised of more than 1,000 organizations across the country, ABC seeks to meet the needs and challenges of a growing and increasingly more diverse food system movement.

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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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The Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED, the Center), was established in 2006 to galvanize residents and focus recovery efforts in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way for the Ninth Ward, an area of New Orleans that has traditionally been underserved and systematically marginalized.  The CSED is strongly focused on engaging community residents and leaders on a host of issues, including coastal eco-system restoration, food security and the built environment.

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The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) Northwest is a group of community organizing alliances in Washington and Oregon, including the Sound Alliance, the Spokane Alliance, and the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good. It is an affiliate of the IAF network, the oldest and largest network of community based organizing in the nation, with affiliated organizations in more than 50 cities. In the Northwest, it has brought together an uncommon mix of constituencies-more than 100 synagogues, churches, education associations, building trades unions, immigrant and neighborhood organizations, and recovery and disability organizations-and has discovered that green jobs ties them together in a deep and meaningful way.

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The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC develops and leads strategic advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage.nt, education and community leaders working together to establish the US as a leader in advanced manufacturing-collaborating to rediscover, reinvent, and rebuild manufacturing in the knowledge economy.

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Since 2006, The Center for Working Families ("The Center") has been working with community-based organizations, elected officials, policy advocates, and environmental organizations to develop and implement ambitious policy reform agendas. With a focus on creating income, health, and job equality, The Center works with local allies to build the momentum and capacity necessary to reform policies which disproportionately affect low income families in New York state.

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1Sky has built a coalition of 600 allied organizations to educate and mobilize the public about the importance of comprehensive climate policy, working to strengthen the nation's economic competitiveness through green jobs, and accelerating the transition off of fossil fuels by integrating local greening and energy initiatives into the national dialogue.

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America is growing, and Smart Growth America is promoting a better and more sustainable way to do it: through equitable development and infrastructure investment, revitalized communities, more housing and transportation choices, and healthier people and land. SGA works with its national partners for state and federal policy change that supports transportation and land use decisions that promote smart growth, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and more livable communities.

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