Seeking to improve lives by advancing neuroscience research, children’s health, early literacy, and the environment
Seeking to improve the understanding and treatment of child and adolescent ADHD and depression, and to improve access to mental health care for children and their families.
Committed to investing in breakthrough neuroscience research, helping communities mitigate climate change, improving early childhood mental health and well-being, and ensuring that all children can read
Dedicated to the advancement of children’s health in Maine, primarily by improving their oral health.
The Anacostia Watershed Society works to protect and restore the Anacostia Watershed. This grant supports the Anacostia Watershed Society’s Restoration of Urban Wetlands in the Anacostia Watershed project, which will help restore a 36-acre riparian habitat along the Anacostia River in Colmar Manor and Bladensburg. The goals are to enhance Prince George’s County’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts and to improve local ecosystems, resulting in a cleaner Anacostia River.
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The Georgetown Climate Center helps to advance government responses to the climate crisis in the U.S. at the national, state, and local levels. This grant supports developing preliminary non-partisan research and analysis to determine whether new climate adaptation, clean energy, and clean transportation ordinances are needed in 2-3 jurisdictions in each of the following states: Maine, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland (as well as DC). This grant will also provide general support for the Center’s Adaptation and Mitigation programs, which help city attorneys and sustainability staff address legal questions about climate action.
The Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law at NYU Law School conducts research and issues publications that advance energy and environmental policies for a sustainable and equitable economy. This grant supports the Assessing Local Building Performance Standards project, which will retrospectively analyze the efficacy of local Building Performance Standards and offer recommendations for the next generation of building decarbonization laws.
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA is a network of local governments committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This grant supports ICLEI USA’s Elected Officials Leadership Academy project, which will recruit and enroll 20 mayors and other elected officials to a climate-leadership-building cohort. This grant will also include work with municipal staff, training them how to use climate data to establish evidence-based strategies to develop effective climate policies.
The Institute for Market Transformation creates and implements next-generation building performance policies to decarbonize buildings. This grant supports identifying ten jurisdictions that should adopt Building Performance Standards and help them evaluate options to decarbonize their building sectors.
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council works to improve rules, regulatory policies, and technical standards to make clean energy widely accessible. This grant supports developing a toolkit consisting of guidance on large-scale solar ordinances and best practices for local governments. The goal is to produce solutions and best practices to navigate large-scale solar planning, zoning, and permitting challenges.
The National Wildlife Federation’s Sacred Grounds program engages faith-based congregations to create sustainable grounds for both people and wildlife by actively linking faith practices to caring for the environment, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. This grant supports the expansion of the Sacred Grounds project to five predominantly Black and Brown congregations in Prince George’s County, MD, to reduce emissions and install climate resilient and pollinator attractive native plant gardens on congregation grounds.
Nature Forward advocates for regional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions while promoting natural solutions like tree planting and green infrastructure. This grant supports Nature Forward’s Langley Park, MD, Climate Resilience project, which will install a 1,500 square foot rain garden at the Langley Park Civic Association headquarters and convert portions of 100 privately-owned lawns to native and pollinator plants. Additionally, Nature Forward will provide green infrastructure and conservation landscaping training, in both English and Spanish, for 150 residents.
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law develops legal techniques and analyses to combat climate change. This grant supports the Cities Climate Law Initiative, which will provide municipalities with resources to address legal questions about climate action. This grant also supports a partnership with the Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization project, which will conduct preliminary non-partisan analysis in at least 10 municipalities to determine whether there is a need for climate change ordinance.
The Smart Surfaces Coalition is made up of more than 40 organizations with a shared commitment to creating cooler, healthier, and more climate-friendly and resilient cities by reducing the impacts of extreme urban heat and flooding. This grant supports the Smart Surfaces Coalition’s Municipal Smart Surfaces project, which will research and analyze smart surfaces policies that reduce municipal CO2 emissions and create new municipal peer-networks to facilitate adoption of these policies if the preliminary analyses indicate the need to do so.
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