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The Cornell Douglas Foundation is a private, non-operating foundation established in 2006

Its mission is to provide grants to organizations which promote the vision of the foundation: advocating for environmental health and justice, encouraging stewardship of the environment, and furthering respect for sustainability of resources.

Featured Grants

Living Classrooms

Living Classrooms provides access to more equitable education, workforce development, health and wellness, and community safety opportunities that enable individuals to achieve their goals and build safer, stronger, healthier communities in the Baltimore & DC Regions.

Grand Canyon Trust

Grand Canyon Trust applies a forward thinking approach to protecting the Southwest’s lands, waters, air, and wildlife.

Doctors Without Borders

Delivering emergency medical aid to people in crisis, disasters, epidemics, and social exclusion, with humanitarian projects in more than 70 countries.

Southern Environmental Law Center

The largest nonprofit, nonpartisan environmental legal advocacy organization rooted in and focused on the South composed of lawyers, policy and issue experts, community advocates, and partners who take on the toughest challenges to protect our air, water, land.

WildEarth Guardians

WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.

New York Restoration Project

NYRP creates, restores, and nurtures green space across all five boroughs of New York, helping to make the city make our city greener, healthier, and more resilient by expanding public green space and the urban tree canopy while engaging New Yorkers in environmental stewardship.

Our Areas of Focus

Land Conservation

Environmental Health & Justice

Watershed Protection

Sustainability of Resources

Dedicated Leaders in Our Field

Our Previous Grants

Anacostia Watershed Society

Antibiotic Resistance Action Center

Appalachian Voices

Audubon Naturalist Society

Beyond Pesticides

City Harvest

Earthworks

Honeybee Conservancy

Jump$tart

Lighthawk

Of Interest