Annual Grants Awarded
Annual Grants Awarded
Funding projects that meet our mission.




Project
Consensus Building Institute | Innovative ADR in Groundwater Sustainability to Manage California Drought
$25,000 for CBI to highlight and promote the use and the central role of ADR in connection with the implementation of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
GRANT AMOUNT
$25,000

Project
Training for Mediating Parties with Mental Health Issues
$24,998 to fund scalable mediation training for certified peer specialists to serve an underserved population of peers living with mental health issues. Research Foundation of CUNY on behalf of John Jay College: The Dispute Resolution in Mental Health Initiative.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,998

Project
Cultivating Dialogue Between Dominant and Non-Dominant Communities in Minnesota
$24,998 for OCDR/DRI to conduct a transformative project to produce qualitative change in the type of engagement currently taking place between dominant and non-dominant communities in Minnesota. Minnesota State Office for Collaboration and Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2016 Talk with Purpose: Using Dispute Resolution to Engage Communities and Foster Relationships for Constructive Change.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,998

Project
Minnesota State Office for Collaboration and Dispute Resolution and Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell Hamline University School of Law 2016 | Talk with Purpose: Using Dispute Resolution to Engage Communities and Foster Relationships for Constructive Change
$24,998 for OCDR/DRI to conduct a transformative project to produce qualitative change in the type of engagement currently taking place between dominant and non-dominant communities in Minnesota.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,998

Project
Essential Partners
$24,997.50 to expand the capacity of a community dialogue program in North Carolina, cultivating relationships of trust between police, activists, and citizens through dialogues on race, public safety, and community-police relations.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,997

Project
Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
$24,921 to fund podcast series intended to help support teaching around dialogue on challenging topics including racial, ethnic and religious conflict.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,921

Project
Essential Partners
$24,854 to fund trainings for teaching at-risk youth to lead and participate in more constructive dialogues about conflict and difference.
GRANT AMOUNT
$24,854