Annual Grants Awarded

Overview

Funding projects that meet our mission.

The Foundation proactively identifies and invites organizations to submit proposals for consideration. Grants will be directed to support the Foundation's main focus area to advance mediation and conflict resolution practices by integrating them into alternative crisis response initiatives and support community-centered approaches to public safety and law enforcement engagement.

$8.7M +

IN GRANTS FUNDED

Since the inception of 2015, the Foundation has funded $8,708,347 in grants through the Annual Grant Program.

$360K +

AVERAGE GRANT 2025

The average grant amount for the 2025 Annual Grant Cycle.

3/100

PROJECTS FUNDED

In 2025, the Foundation funded 3 organizations advancing dispute resolution. 100 projects have been funded through the Annual Grant Program to date.

No Other Annual Grantees List found for this selected year.

Project

Divided Community Project/Ohio State

$45,000 to expand the inaugural training Academy to leaders from across the nation to equip them with tools to strengthen democratic engagement and address civil unrest and community division.

GRANT AMOUNT

$45,000

Project

Cultivating Dialogue Between Dominant and Non-Dominant Communities in Minnesota

$45,000 to continue funding a transformative project to produce qualitative change in the type of engagement currently taking place between dominant and nondominant communities in Minnesota. Minnesota State Office for Collaboration and Dispute Resolution and Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2017 Talk with Purpose: Using Dispute Resolution to Engage Communities and Foster Relationships for Constructive Change.

GRANT AMOUNT

$45,000

Project

The National Institute for Civil Discourse

$41,500 to create a new series of online civil discourse training modules, Engaging Differences, to engage Americans nationwide.

GRANT AMOUNT

$41,500

Project

Dayton Mediation Response Unit Documentary

For "Common Ground," a short documentary highlighting the Dayton Mediation Center’s Mediation Response Unit and its innovative approach to responding to 911 calls through community-based mediation. To advance the growth, visibility, and long-term impact of alternative response and community-centered conflict resolution.

GRANT AMOUNT

$40,590

Project

Center for Conflict Resolution

$40,000 to support conflict resolution training and re-entry mediation services to youth at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

GRANT AMOUNT

$40,000

Project

Best Uses of ADR to Respond to and Plan for Community Divides

$40,000 to fund a study that describes local ADR responses and planning initiatives to address controversies that divide communities and development of a Community Preparation Assessment Test tool for community use. Ohio State University Foundation on behalf of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Divided Community Project.

GRANT AMOUNT

$40,000

Project

The Divided Community Project/Ohio State University Foundation

$40,000 to fund development and conducting national "academy" targeted to strengthening local leadership capacity to use and collaborate with community mediation experts to plan for and address civil unrest.

GRANT AMOUNT

$40,000