Catalyzing Environmental Leadership

NorthLight Foundation is developing and funding initiatives fostering new leadership on the environment.

2025 Partners

Mosaic environmental fund

Mosaic is a national funder and field catalyst investing in the resources that advocates and activists need most – shared tools and training, leadership, narrative, trust and relationships, and more. Also known as movement infrastructure, these are the indispensable keys to win the critical fights on climate, conservation, and justice.

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan continues to develop new leaders in the environment movement in partnership with NorthLight Foundation through the School of the Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment (the Center), the Tishman Scholarship Fund, and the two Tishman Professorships in Environmental Justice.

 

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Katahdin Woods and Waters receives $1M grant toward monument’s visitor center
Katahdin Woods and Waters receives $1M grant toward monument’s visitor center

The campaign has received support from over 200 donors including leadership gifts from the Roxanne Quimby Foundation, Elliotsville Foundation Inc., Burt’s Bees, L.L.Bean, the National Park Foundation and the NorthLight Foundation. 

Colby College’s Center for Resilience and Economic Impact to Launch on Port Clyde Waterfront
Colby College’s Center for Resilience and Economic Impact to Launch on Port Clyde Waterfront

The former general store will be rebuilt as a community space and the home of a new interdisciplinary research center

Intersection of environmental justice and engineering the focus of new $2.5M endowed professorship
Intersection of environmental justice and engineering the focus of new $2.5M endowed professorship

The gift represents a cross-discipline approach to sustainability and equity.