Partners for Places, hosted by The Funders Network, aims to enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States and Canada. The program provides support to advance collaborative partnerships between a local government sustainability or water department, frontline community partner, and place-based funder, and to support the planning and implementation of urban sustainability and green stormwater infrastructure projects. For this round of funding, two-year grants ranging from $75,000 to $180,000 are available to create or improve the collaborative partnerships and to plan or implement an equitable climate action or green stormwater infrastructure project that addresses frontline community priorities. (One-year grants of $45,000 to $150,000 are only available to partnerships that have previously received a Partners for Places mini grant.) One or more local foundations are required to provide at least a 50% matching grant.

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The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation's national grantmaking focuses on the following program interests: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundation of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on support for state base organizations educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation; media, including public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on ensuring drinking water is clean, affordable, and accessible and protected and managed as a public necessity; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. (Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.) Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time and full proposals are reviewed quarterly. The upcoming deadline for full proposals is January 6, 2023. Click here for more.