The Charlotte Martin Foundation provides grants to enrich the lives of youth and preserve and protect wildlife and habitat.
Donor Name: Charlotte Martin Foundation
State: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Core Principles
- Relevance: They continually seek information regarding significant opportunities in the region and in the focus areas to ensure that they are responding to current needs and opportunities.
- Community Engagement: They seek to foster community engagement in protecting wildlife and habitat and in engaging youth skills to build directly on community needs and strengths.
- Focus on Place: Grounded in the Northwest, they fund in urban, rural and tribal communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington where people work to improve the places that they live.
- Expand Opportunity: They give special consideration in the grant making to benefit and expand opportunities for underserved populations in the region.
In the funding of youth and wildlife, they have further refined the focus in the following areas:
- Increasing Opportunities for BIPOC:
- Increasing racial equity and diversity for youth ages 6-18.
- BIPOC led nonprofit organizations with diverse leadership and staff are the focus of the grant-making. Organizations based in rural communities are also a priority for the foundation.
- Programs that create opportunities in areas of education, cultural expression and athletics. Including but not limited to:
- Increase access to and the creation of diverse cultural experiences.
- Improve school-based and out-of-school learning opportunities in areas such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) and other areas.
- Increase early college awareness and access to post-secondary education.
- Increase access to sports and diversify sports programs.
- Promoting Biodiversity in a Changing Climate:
- Conservation efforts that utilize the impacts of climate change when selecting areas for protection.
- Engaging a community of citizens, scientists, and conservationists in educating the public about biodiversity and climate change.
- Restoring important lands for biodiversity, focal species, and landscape connectivity. Including but not limited to:
- Assessments to identify species and communities at risk, including strategies to work toward ecosystem resilience.
- Identification of barriers to migration and mitigation measures to enhance landscape connectivity.
- Adaptive restoration strategies based on predicted species range expansion and contraction.
- Promoting the biodiversity of the marine and freshwater environments.
Geographical Areas
Western States as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. To be eligible for funding, organizations must be headquartered in this region, and the proposed programs must take place within this region.
For more information, visit Charlotte Martin Foundation.
