Gund Institute Fund: Your gift dramatically enhances our ability to solve urgent environmental challenges. Your support enables the Gund Institute to accelerate world-class research, education, and outreach to leaders in government, business and civil society. Together, these efforts help create solutions to the problems facing the people of Vermont, the United States, and the world.
Gund Global Impact Fund: Your gift will help to turn sustainability ideas from the academy into real-world solutions. You'll help the Gund Institute to build more enduring partnerships with influential organizations, expand its media reach, and convene scientists and decision-makers in larger forums. Your gift will ensure that the remarkable research supported by the Gund Institute has the maximum possible impact on the wider world.
The Medina Fund: Your gift supports transdisciplinary research at the Gund Institute, focused on real-world problems in environment and sustainability. Research supported by the Medina Fund will emphasize the economic and other connections between nature and people, and will provide research, training and leadership opportunities for promising young scientists.
Eric Zencey Prize: Your gift supports a prize, awarded every other year, to the best book or work of long-form journalism that illuminates current affairs while advancing public understanding of the principles and precepts of Ecological Economics—a school of economic thought that cautions us that the economy can’t grow forever, that there are limits to the amount of economic production our finite planet can support.
Apis Fund: Your support will provide grants for projects that benefit bees that are essential for the world’s food supply – including agriculture in Vermont – but experiencing steep declines from climate change, disease, pesticides, and habitat loss.
Leahy Scholars Initiative for the Gund Institute: Your gift will support a permanent endowment for the Leahy Scholars at the Gund Institute. With your gift, you will be providing scholarships and high-impact training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students committed to academic excellence and societal impact.
Vermont Climate Change Assessment Fund: Your gift supports the research activities of the Gund Institute for Environment’s Vermont Climate Assessment project. The project hopes to further scientific understanding of historical, current, and future climate change trends in Vermont.
Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) Fund: Your gift supports transdisciplinary ecological economics research, education, outreach, and policy initiatives to foster a socially just sustainability transition with the overarching goal of promoting mutually enhancing relationships between humans and the rest of nature. In this decade of action, we must reimagine and transform our economic system to a sustainable, just, and efficient ecological economy dedicated to improving human quality of life while protecting the global ecosystems in which the economy and society are embedded. Your support will contribute to this demanding but essential task.