Funds Target Sustainability and Justice Issues

Threshold Foundation

The Threshold Foundation works to mobilize money, people, and power to create a more just, joyful, and sustainable world. For the 2009-2010 funding cycle, the Foundation will provide grants to nonprofit organizations through the following two grantmaking committees: The Sustainable Planet Committee will focus on community-based solutions for a sustainable world, local solutions for threatened biodiversity ecosystems worldwide, and climate change efforts to accelerate reduction of carbon emissions through carbon taxes or auctioned cap and trade policies within the United States. The Justice and Democracy Committee will focus on criminal justice reform efforts to address policies that negatively impact youth, drug policy reform to end drug laws that criminalize youth of color and to remove barriers to education for incarcerated youth, and models of building electoral power in historically underrepresented U.S. constituencies. Online letters of inquiry must be submitted by September 25, 2009. Detailed application guidelines are available on the Foundation's website.