About
The Rosin Funds’ Environment Program funds innovative projects that address critical environmental issues. The Rosin Fund looks for projects that address multiple problems and present holistic, integrated solutions. Measurable outcomes, ability to share and replicate beneficial effects, and incorporation of social justice are preferred.
This program focuses on three topic areas, so all applicants should align proposals to at least one of these:
- Urban Sustainability – projects that consider new paradigms in green infrastructure, open space, the built environment, mass transit, recycling, and waste management, food quality and availability, and urban agriculture.
- Green Economy/Green Jobs – projects that spur green industry, develop partnerships between business and environmental groups, and creation of jobs and social benefits.
- Sustainable Drinking Water – projects that work to ensure that drinking water is clean and available. Project types may include: water protection strategies and policies, innovative new technologies, corporate responsibility efforts, and water protection from extractive industries (ex: fracking).
Project Examples
The Charles River Watershed Association received funds for their Smart Sewering: Infrastructure for a Livable Future. This innovative approach to urban wastewater infrastructure generates energy, free capacity in existing sewers to protect cities from flooding, fosters smart growth and reduces nonpoint source pollution.