City Awards Sustaining Ann Arbor Together Grants to 10 Local Community Projects
The City of Ann Arbor held an event Oct. 7, 2025, to celebrate and present 10 local winners with Sustaining Ann Arbor Together grants, totaling more than $80,000 in funding for community-led projects. Grant recipients gathered with city officials at Larcom City Hall for the awards ceremony.
The Sustaining Ann Arbor Together grant program was created to support community and neighborhood groups working to develop, complete or design small-scale sustainability projects that provide direct benefit(s) to the public. The program has $100,000 available annually, which is distributed in awards of $10,000 or less. Potential projects are evaluated based on merit and alignment with Ann Arbor’s goal areas as defined in the A2ZERO Carbon Neutrality Plan.
Awardees Include:
- Marquee Arts | $10,000 to make all four screenings of the 2025 Cinema & Sustainability film series free to the public.
- SOS Community Services | $10,000 to support their Ann Arbor emergency transition housing unit in the Bryant neighborhood.
- Ann Arbor Rowing Club | $5,000 to support a dock replacement and upgrade at Bandemer Park.
- Ann Arbor Youth Mountain Bike Team | $6,500 for an equipment trailer that will support the team and their trail maintenance efforts.
- Ann Arbor Community Land Trust | $10,000 for a net-zero affordable housing project and resource sharing.
- Community Action Network | $10,000 for community resilience programming and improvements at the Green Baxter Court community center.
- Community Action Network | $7,500 to make electrification improvements at CAN sites
- Marupo ACTS | $7,500 to support their fall Asian Night Market event at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.
- Neutral Zone | $10,000 to support their Youth Now Climate Action student leadership group initiative.
- Drive Forward Foundation | $5,000 to support a driver’s training program for underserved youth in Washtenaw County.
Learn more about the Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovation Sustaining Ann Arbor Together (SA2T) neighborhood grant program.
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Media Contact:
Dr. Missy Stults, Director of Sustainability and Innovations, mstults@a2gov.org