ENV 740a () / 2024-2025

Understanding Environmental Philanthropy: Funding, Financing, and Grant Writing

This course will be one of the first of its kind to be taught in a program like YSE’s.  During the semester, students will learn about environmental philanthropy and the grantmaking process.  The course, which will focus on environmental justice and other kinds of environmental funding, will introduce students to different types of funding sources, funding strategies, and funding affinity groups.  Students will also meet with environmental program officers and other foundation staff, understand how to identify funding, write grants, and navigate the review process. Students in the course will write grants to foundations and government agencies. This includes participating in the entire grant-writing process—requests for proposals (RFP), concept papers or pre-proposals, full proposals, budget development, review, budget management, deliverables, and project evaluation.