Duluth Superior Area
Community Foundation
324 West Superior Street, Suite 212
Duluth, MN 55802
Phone: 218.726.0232 • Fax: 218.726.0257
Early Adopters
As part of the Community Foundation’s effort to “walk the talk,” the Foundation is undergoing comprehensive training and professional coaching in sustainability.
The Community Foundation is also a major funder of the “Early Adopter Project” providing grants from the Fund for the Environment and the Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund to allow 14 regional businesses and organizations to participate in the training.
To learn more about the “Early Adopter Project,” watch this video on YouTube.
To lear more about the Community Foundation's involvement with the project, watch the video below.
Led by Sustainable Twin Ports, which is the merger of the KCCI Group We Mean Green and Sustainable Duluth, the program will use a science and systems-based sustainability action planning framework known as The Natural Step. The formal training and consulting services will be provided by The Natural Step Canada.
This sustainability framework has been successfully implemented worldwide by companies including Nike and IKEA, the city of Stockholm and Japan. By implementing new practices using The Natural Step framework, they have significantly improved their competitive edge in the realms of financial, environmental and community sustainability - the “triple bottom line”.
Other Early Adopter Project participants are: Challenge Center, City of Duluth, Inn on Lake Superior, ZMC Hotels, Duluth Grill (Embers), Superior Public Schools, London Road Carwash, Superior Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Douglas County, Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce, Glenwood Signs and Awards, Duluth Transit Authority, Twin Ports Testing and the University of Wisconsin – Superior.
Through May of 2009, the Community Foundation will take an in-depth look at what can be done to create a more sustainable organization. Upon completion of the program, an action plan will be created that will be the first step in taking action to reduce the Community Foundation’s carbon footprint.
