Trust for Mutual Understanding

**The Trust for Mutual Understanding awards grants to organizations to support collaboration in the arts and the environment (and the intersection of the two) under the umbrella of culture between professionals from** the United States and Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. At TMU, we are concerned about the rapid decline of direct people-to-people connections across geographies and cultures. We continue to believe strongly in the conviction of our donor, Sandra Ferry Rockefeller, that supporting international, person-to-person contact and collaboration supports global harmony. We believe these relationships, rooted in trust, are increasingly urgent to combat isolationism. We embrace the possibility that through an interwoven fabric of culture, long-standing connection, understanding, and mutual respect can be developed and a more peaceful world can prosper. Our grantmaking focuses specifically on how the arts and the environment, and the intersection of the two, relate to culture.