Resource: Ittleson Foundation
Title: Ittleson Foundation
Resource type: Grant/loan
Topics: Communities, Education
Keywords: grants, grant, environmental grants
Audience: Nonprofit
Region: Minnesota Statewide, Outside Minnesota
Summary: The Ittleson Foundation provides environmental grants for training, infrastructure, new constituencies, and model environmental programs.
Content: The Ittleson Foundation particularly seeks to encourage and nurture environmental action through:

- supporting the present generation of environmental activists, whether professionals or volunteers through education, training and other activities

- educating and engaging the next generation of environmentalists with a special interest in supporting the training of those who are teaching that generation

- strengthening the infrastructure of the environmental movement with a particular focus on efforts at the grassroots and statewide levels

- activating new constituencies, particularly those focused on environmental equity issues

Grants to non-profits range from $5,000 to around $60,000. The Foundation board meets once per year. Initial letters of inquiry must be received before September 1.

Website: http://www.ittlesonfoundation.org
Suggested by: Philipp Muessig
Added: 12/2/02
Updated: 07/27/11