Sustainable Environments Program
Supports communities of color and low-wealth communities in shaping infrastructure and land use investments and designing policy solutions, through environmental and climate justice and community control of land. Grants are made by invitation only.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The program page publishes no minimum or maximum grant size.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Grants are made by invitation only; the foundation states it is not currently accepting unsolicited inquiries or letters of intent, so there is no published deadline.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- US-based organizations, including work on tribal lands and in US territories; nothing outside the US. Individuals, capital campaigns, construction, equipment, scholarships and endowments are excluded. Currently invitation only, with no unsolicited inquiries or letters of intent accepted.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- environmental justice · climate justice · land use · community power · infrastructure policy
- Apply at
- https://surdna.org/what-we-fund/sustainable-environments/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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