The Joyce Foundation

Our Environment Program supports science-based policy to address two critical long-term challenges facing the next generation in the Great Lakes region: the impact of climate change and access to safe, clean, and affordable drinking water. We are working to accelerate the transition to clean energy and ensure the next generation will have clean water from lake to tap.

Our Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program promotes safe and just communities through support for research, education, advocacy, and engagement focused on three initiatives: stronger policies to restrict easy accessibility of guns, 21st century policing to build greater police-community trust, and reducing the over-reliance on incarceration of young people.

The Joyce Democracy Program promotes an informed, engaged, and representative democracy acting in the public interest, in which all citizens have a stake. We focus on strategies in two areas: fair elections and public interest media. Our fair elections focus area includes voting rights, expanded ballot access, a well-funded and accurate 2020 census, and redistricting reform. Our media grant making focuses on ensuring a vibrant, independent media ecosystem in the Great Lakes region that informs elections and policy making and holds government accountable.

The goal of our Culture Program is to inspire creativity and cultural stewardship in the next generation of Great Lakes residents by strengthening the role of artists and arts organizations in fostering culturally vibrant and sustainable communities. We look for opportunities to promote arts access and creativity, and build organizational and community capacity in the arts through a commitment equity, diversity, and inclusion capturing demographic shifts in the region.