Grant Highlights
With a 33-year history and 250 member institutions and individuals, the service organization supports the creation and presentation of original art, rooted in a community of place, tradition and spirit, and focuses on artists working in and with communities in 14 Southern states. This two-year grant strengthens programs that support and enhance community-based artistic endeavors.
The organization leverages science and policy to achieve its mission of protecting and restoring America’s rivers for the benefit of people, wildlife and nature. A two-year grant bolsters the nonprofit’s capability to promote sustainable water-resources management programs and proactive climate-change policies at the state and federal level.
Architecture 2030 spearheads cutting-edge efforts to reduce the energy demand of new buildings and major renovations, with a long-term efficiency goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2030. A two-year operating grant supports its comprehensive work in research, education, coalition building, codes and legislation and design education and practice.
The nation’s largest public research university seeks to increase access to higher education for more state residents by creating a seamless process students can use to transfer from community colleges. A three-year grant advances the development and implementation of new technological tools that make college-transfer information more accessible and user-friendly.
A leader in developing, owning and managing affordable live/work space for artists by reclaiming abandoned buildings and renovating historic structures, Artspace provides 846 housing units in 12 states. This two-year grant allows the organization to fund its core work and subsidize some predevelopment contract costs for projects in three cities.
Beaufort-Jasper-Hamilton Comprehensive Health Services and its community partners are developing a leadership organization to ensure comprehensive health and fitness services are available to residents of Sheldon Township, one of South Carolina’s poorest rural areas.
The private, nonprofit academic medical center in Boston’s historic South End is New England’s largest safety-net hospital. A two-year grant enables the Medical Legal Partnership for Children program to expand and increase the sustainability of its national center and affiliated programs, which utilize legal aid to augment primary-care services to low-income children and their families.
The private research university has combined advanced teaching with artificial intelligence to create online learning environments that afford working and nontraditional students greater flexibility in pursuing college degrees. A three-year grant expands the current offerings by funding the development of a new online introductory computer-science course for dissemination to community colleges and private universities.
To ensure a more sustainable future for the American West, this organization identifies challenging situations, engages concerned stakeholders, and crafts innovative strategies and solutions. This two-year grant renews support for Carpe Diem, an initiative to rethink how water is stored and delivered so that ecosystems are protected, agricultural economies are sustained, and all residents have access to clean water.
The Pacific Northwest’s leading green-building organization operates the Living Building Challenge, a certification system more stringent that the familiar LEED rating system. An 18-month grant allows Cascadia to promote its rating system and educate prospective users, host a national conference and complete a water-policy report for public officials.