Funding Database
The Fetzer Institute is dedicated to helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. We do this by funding innovators and organizations that research spirituality, engage in individual and societal spiritual transformation, and build the spiritual infrastructure for the future, especially in service of our current program areas of Democracy, Education, Faith & Spirituality, and Organizational Culture. We believe in the power of ideas and we convene leaders to explore, discover, sharpen, and publish on spiritual transformation. And we work with allies with shared values within philanthropy to achieve greater impact.
We invite you to explore a full list of our partners and projects since 2015 in the database below.
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| Project Title | Partner | Project Description | Amount | Program Area | Year Approved | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depolarization: Mending Rural & Urban Divide | Depolarization: Mending Rural & Urban Divide | $300,000 | Millions of Conversations | Funding for Millions of Conversations’ Depolarization Summit and related programming through the further development of the 3142 Program that aims to de-escalate rising tensions in... more | $300,000 | Democracy | Millions of Conversations | 2022 |
| The Story of a Spiritual Movement for Love and Peace in Latin America | The Story of a Spiritual Movement for Love and Peace in Latin America | $75,000 | Duke Divinity School | Funding to advance a landscaping partnership with Dr. Nina Balmaceda, associate director of Duke Divinity School’s Center for Reconciliation and Transformation and national directo... more | $75,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Duke Divinity School | 2022 |
| Breaking Ground - A Christian Humanist Vision of Love | Breaking Ground - A Christian Humanist Vision of Love | $150,000 | Cardus | This project with Cardus, through Breaking Ground, will build a two-way street of learning and accountability between local doers and the national intellectual and coalition leader... more | $150,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Cardus | 2022 |
| Project on Unity and American Democracy | Project on Unity and American Democracy | $200,000 | Vanderbilt University | The collaboration with the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy will organize a symposium on how we might find belonging through the Sacred by exploring sacred experi... more | $200,000 | Democracy | Vanderbilt University | 2022 |
| Of the Love - Amoris Christi | Of the Love - Amoris Christi | $150,000 | Amoris Christi Inc. | Funding to support the Amoris Christi Institute’s interlocking initiatives: Anointed and Sent and the Institute for Excellence. Amoris Christi, an affiliate of Jesus Youth (a ponti... more | $150,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Amoris Christi Inc. | 2022 |
| Millennial Lawmakers to Heal Divides | Millennial Lawmakers to Heal Divides | $600,000 | Millennial Action Project | This collaboration will enable the Millennial Action Project (MAP) to implement the Pluribus Fellowship, a spiritually grounded leadership development framework for young lawmakers... more | $600,000 | Democracy | Millennial Action Project | 2022 |
| Spirituality Study Re-Fielding and Research Symposium | Spirituality Study Re-Fielding and Research Symposium | $400,000 | Fetzer Institute | The Institute’s spirituality study was an examination of spirituality in America today that covered the topic with greater depth and breadth than any other contemporary research. T... more | $400,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Fetzer Institute | 2022 |
| Rituals of Love | Rituals of Love | $350,000 | Krueger & Lee | The concept is to design a national festival of LOVE hosted by faith organizations to promote a common experience, ritual, and language of love. The design will include revenue gen... more | $350,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Krueger & Lee | 2022 |
| Care Lab | Care Lab | $150,000 | Care Lab | Support to build on the success of CARE LAB’s Three Dinners pilot initiative. This partnership will catalyze CARE LAB to reach up to 50% of U.S. Senate Chiefs of Staff with care-ce... more | $150,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Care Lab | 2022 |
| Solutions Journalism Support | Solutions Journalism Support | $140,400 | Solutions Journalism Network | Funding for the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) to support a six-month feasibility study and three demonstration projects to introduce and apply solutions journalism within the ... more | $140,400 | Democracy | Solutions Journalism Network | 2022 |
| Gratitude Revealed Film & Impact Campaign | Gratitude Revealed Film & Impact Campaign | $250,000 | Protect What We Love | This project seeks to support the film and accompanying impact campaign for the film Gratitude Revealed. Produced by the award-winning cinematographer and director Louie Schwartzbe... more | $250,000 | Shared Sacred Story | Protect What We Love | 2022 |
| Productive Spirituality, Death and Work | Productive Spirituality, Death and Work | $185,000 | Theos | Their current portfolio of programs pivots around three streams: Living, Doing and Being. During our recent ideations, we felt that the topic of death, meaningful work and spiritua... more | $185,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Theos | 2022 |
| Cultivating Human Institutions with Capacities for Sacred Purpose | Cultivating Human Institutions with Capacities for Sacred Purpose | $200,000 | Redeeming Babel | A partnership with Redeeming Babel to develop the civic character of Christians in their institutional lives by addressing the historic neglect of institutions in Christian charact... more | $200,000 | Faith & Spirituality | Redeeming Babel | 2022 |
| Strengthening Democracy Challenge Sponsorship | Strengthening Democracy Challenge Sponsorship | $13,500 | Stanford Polarization Lab | The Institute is an existing funder of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, an extensive tournament-style study of short (up to 8-minute), online interventions that aim to mitiga... more | $13,500 | Democracy | Stanford Polarization Lab | 2022 |
| America Talks: Creating Connection in the Midst of Deep Division | America Talks: Creating Connection in the Midst of Deep Division | $50,000 | Listen First Project, Inc. | In April 2022, thousands of Americans will converse face-to-face on video with those who have different backgrounds and beliefs. Each conversation will provide a repairing stitch t... more | $50,000 | Democracy | Listen First Project, Inc. | 2022 |
