The Mortenson Family Foundation provides Sustaining Environmental Systems Grants to enable all Minnesotans to have equitable and sustainable access to healthy land and water.
Donor Name: Mortenson Family Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Foundation believes that if a broad base of Minnesotans has positive exposure to and experiences with land and water, they will be enabled to acquire, share, and/or implement a range of environmental approaches resulting in:
- Effective environmental solutions and stewardship that originate in and are led by and for communities most affected by the environmental impact.
- Opportunities for all communities to experience ways of being, learning, and respectfully and mutually leveraging knowledge that provides alternatives to dominant extractive human/land and water relationships that lead to better outcomes for the land, water, and all Minnesotans.
- Reduced and repaired environmental harms to black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and other historically marginalized communities resulting in restoration of relationships, communities, and environments.
Funding Information
$1,065,000 will be allocated in the fall 2024 grant round.
- Tier One: 20-30K
- If you have not received grants from the foundation in the past and have an operational budget of $500,000 or less.
- Tier Two: 30-50K
- If you are a returning partner with a budget of less than $500,000
- If you have never received a grant from the foundation and you have an operational budget of $500,000 to $1,000,000.
- Tier Three: 50K-75K
- If you are a returning partner with an operational budget from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
- If you have never received a grant from the Foundation and you have an operational budget over $1,000,000.
- Tier Four: 75K and Up
- If you are a returning partner with an operational budget of more than $1,000,000
- If you have never received a grant from the Foundation and you have an operational budget over $1,000,000 and
- You are providing programming in a location where that specific programming is sparsely available or
- You are meeting an emerging need in the ecosystem or
- Your programming is culturally specific and is meeting a gap of services in a specific community.
Grant Period
Grants generally have a 12-month duration.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations with 501c3 status or a fiscal sponsor that has work aligned to the Sustaining Environmental Systems grant guidelines are eligible to apply.
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