The Mortenson Family Foundation is accepting proposals for a pilot of our new Sustaining Environmental Systems grant program.
Donor Name: Mortenson Family Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/18/2022
Detail:
The Foundation strives to enable all Minnesotans to have equitable and sustainable access to healthy land and water.
The Foundation believes that if a broad base of people has positive exposure to and experiences with nature, 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 relationships and ultimately results in better outcomes for the environment and all people.
- 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.
Climate and Racial Justice
Mortenson Family Foundation is learning to prioritize racial and climate justice in their work, they seek partners who are doing the same, acknowledging that climate change:
- Interacts with and worsens existing inequalities in society that are shaped by racism, exclusion, and oppression.
- Requires integrated, non-siloed approaches centering the well-being of human and natural communities most adversely impacted.
- Will be best addressed through knowledge, ideas, and leadership from BIPOC communities and others adversely impacted by climate and other environmental harms.
Partners
In addition to prioritizing climate and racial justice in their work, the Foundation seeks partners who work to sustain healthy land and water.
They acknowledge that a range of environmental approaches could be used to accomplish this outcome and work with partners who promote:
- Information, education, and practices that lead to new, deeper, and/or resurfaced understanding, and/or a renewed relationship with nature.
- Opportunities for BIPOC and other historically marginalized communities to practice and/or renew culturally-based stewardship practices that result in improved land, water, and community health.
- Sustainable economic options grounded in environmental approaches that meet basic needs, stimulate growth, and create opportunity.
- Policy solutions that center community voice to reduce environmental harms to BIPOC and other historically marginalized communities.
For more information, visit Sustaining Environmental Systems.
