Surdna's Board met in September to approve 50 grants totaling $7,051,000. These grants support our mission to foster sustainable communities in the United States -- communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

Grants included Support to the New Policy Institute for the Next Economy Partnership Project, which will use public opinion research and collaborative message development in a bottom-up approach to advocating for a more competitive 21st century energy economy; Juma Ventures to support the development and implementation of a national corporate social responsibility platform aimed at creating jobs and educational opportunities for thousands of low-income young adults across the country; Juxtaposition Arts to support the expansion of a comprehensive visual art education and jobs program for urban teens and to further develop business planning expertise to expand the teen-led visual art and design social enterprise: JuxtaLab; and the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning to create an Inidigenous Design and Planning Institute with the mission to inform Indigenous design and planning practice.

 

Click here for the complete list of grants.