2025 Annual Grant Cycle Launch!

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2025 Annual Grant Cycle Launch!

The AAA-ICDR Foundation is now accepting applications for 2025 Annual Grant Cycle, inviting proposals seeking between $50,000 and $250,000 for programs utilizing ADR to Bridge Community Conflict, Prevent and Reduce Violence and Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

2025 Annual Grant Cycle Launch!
2025 Annual Grant Cycle Launch!

AAA-ICDR Foundation welcomes applications for 2025 Grant Cycle, inviting proposals seeking between $50K and $250K for programs utilizing ADR to Bridge Community Conflict, Prevent and Reduce Violence, and Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.


The AAA-ICDR Foundation is now accepting grant proposals seeking between $50,000 and $250,000 for initiatives focused on utilizing ADR to address any of the 2025 grant cycle’s priorities:
 

  • Bridge Community Conflict with a focus on civil discourse seeking to mend societal divisions.
  • Prevent and Reduce Violence with a focus on vulnerable and underserved communities and police/social service partnerships.
  • Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a focus on access to justice.


The deadline for interested organizations to submit preliminary applications is September 9, 2024. A limited number of applicants will be selected by the AAA-ICDR Foundation to draft more extensive proposals. To apply, please visit https://www.aaaicdrfoundation.org/annual-grant-cycle#application-process


The AAA-ICDR Foundation has awarded more than $11.2 million since its inception in 2015, awarding over $1,800,000 in its 2024 annual grant cycle. The Foundation’s 2023 Annual Report, which includes more information about its mission and the grants it has funded, can be viewed here.


About the AAA-ICDR Foundation


The American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution Foundation (AAA- ICDR Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that is able to solicit donations and provide grants to fund a range of worthy causes that promote the Foundation’s wide-reaching mission, which is to support the prevention and resolution of conflicts by expanding access to alternative dispute resolution.


Its priorities include fostering measures that prevent and reduce violence, bridge community conflict, and support diversity, equity, and inclusion with a focus on access to justice.


The Foundation is not involved in any way in the oversight, administration or decision making of the AAA-ICDR® cases or in the maintenance of the AAA-ICDR's various rosters of arbitrators and mediators.


For more information on the AAA-ICDR Foundation, please visit: www.aaaicdrfoundation.org.
 

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