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 		In June 2000, the Luce Foundation announced a $30 million initiative in the environment, and invited American colleges, universities and non-governmental organizations to apply for grants. Since the initiative’s launch, the foundation has approved 77 grants, ranging from $1,000 to $1.6 million. These grants have reached 35 institutions of higher education, as well as 32 other organizations. With grants approved in March 2007, the foundation reached its goal of $30 million. The foundation’s board of directors recently celebrated the successful completion of the initiative. As a result, it is inviting no new proposals for the environmental initiative. Nevertheless, nearly half of the projects supported by the initiative are currently underway, and the foundation will maintain its commitment to these grants and will attempt to share the learning from this work.

The environmental initiative has had two purposes. The first was to enhance the quality of academic training on the environment at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities. The intent of these grants was to improve the quality of training and research in environmental studies. The second purpose was to work with environmental organizations on "real world" issues. Here, we endeavored to identify projects that broke new ground and held promise for solving specific problems.

In order to have an impact on the environmental field, the foundation focused on a few themes in the academic and non-academic worlds.

For environmental grants in higher education, the foundation concentrated on four themes: interdisciplinary programs; international exchanges; participatory and empirical teaching; and training in environmental management.

For grants to environmental organizations, proposals were solicited in the following themes: large-scale global systems; science-driven public policy; sustainable development; and biodiversity and natural resource management.

The number and size of grants depended on the nature and quality of the proposals. Panels of advisors, who collectively represented experience across various disciplines and institutions, made recommendations to the Luce Foundation.

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