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What is the Husky Sustainability Fund?
We make your sustainability ideas come to life! The Husky Sustainability Fund is UW Tacoma’s campus green fund– a pool of money paid into by students, for sustainability-related programming.
We believe that students are leaders in the climate justice movement, and our vision for the future is an equitable and vibrant UWT sustainability movement that is student-led, accessible, and creates meaningful impact.
Our mission? To build UWT’s capacity for climate resilience through student engagement. We do this by:
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funding and managing impactful, accessible, and meaningful student-led sustainability learning experiences on the UWT campus.
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increasing student engagement with campus-wide sustainability efforts and developing student competency and leadership related to sustainability.
Funding Information
Supply Funding Request
Do you need help purchasing eco-friendly supplies for an event or project that may not be directly related to sustainability? You can still contribute to our campus' culture of sustainability by requesting these items with our Supply Funding Request form!
Sustainability Project Grant
Do you want to lead an event, conduct a project, host a seminar, or complete an internship that is directly addressing a sustainability issue on campus? The HSF can support you!
Recent Projects
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is a field of study that lives at the intersection of environmental, social, and economic justice.
At UW, we define sustainability as the capacity to create and maintain healthy, equitable and diverse communities and ecosystems.
Sustainability is a lens that challenges us to meet the needs of today without compromising the survival of life in the future.
Project Ideas
Sustainability Issues
What are some of the themes your project could address?
Areas of Impact
How can your idea be put into action?
Potential Projects:
- Expanding sustainable health products on campus
- Events centering student voices and needs
- Events/workshops/presentations around climate change impacts on marginalized communities
- Projects around improving infrastructure
- Expanding wifi access into outdoor spaces. i.e. Giving Garden
- Design and propose more green spaces on campus
- Create a newsletter, zine, or publication focusing on community storytelling
Consider partnering with:
- Center for Equity and Inclusion
- DEI student workers within CSI
- RSOs
- UW Tacoma Social and Historical Studies School
- Psychological and Wellness Services
Possible Projects:
- Composter for the Giving Garden
- Reuse and Repair Clinic
- Thrift market, re-sale day, swap meet
- Waste reduction campaigns
- Recycled art installation/show
- End of the year gear, clothing, kitchenware, etc. exchange
- Cap and gown reuse/rental
- Composting bins for dorm rooms in Court 17
Consider partnering with:
- Integrated Facilities Management
- Environmental and Health Services
- Local thrift shops
Possible Projects:
- Partner with local organizations to conduct community research
- Bring survival skills and preparedness classes to campus
- Purchase first-aid resources for students
- Host a litter clean-up event
- Take a field trip to a Pierce Conservation District restoration party
- Research native plants and update the Giving Garden's Native Plant Walk
Possible Projects:
- Create a map with bike stations around campus
- Implement a bike/scooter rental program
- Promote the use of the U-Pass
- Bus stop art installation
- Electric car charging stations
- Night bus- help students get safely to their cars or back to Court 17
- Vanpool or student-led car service
- Host a group bicycle ride around campus and the nearby neighborhoods
- Create a program that generate an individualized travel plan for students
- Create an app or sign-up sheet for students to connect for carpooling
- Create a bus buddy program
- Social media campaign explaining how public transport works, address commons fears and misconceptions, and share personal student stories
- Create a PSA or educational materials about impacts of single-rider transportation on the climate and human health
Consider partnering with:
- UW Tacoma Transportation Services
- Sound Transit
- Local bike and scooter shops
Potential projects:
- Local food cooking classes
- Host a farmers market group walk
- Campus cookbook
- Host a volunteer day or activity to help the Giving Garden
- Satellite Pantry locations on campus
- Design a notification system to alert students of extra food after events on campus
- Mapping the path of food on campus from restaurant to waste bin
- Create a map of free meal locations near campus with weekly offerings
- Food truck pilot program
Consider speaking to:
- Center for Equity and Inclusion
- The Pantry
- Local restaurants
- UWT Giving Garden
- Local Food Depot
- UW Tacoma Integrated Facilities Management
Possible projects:
- Organize campus clean-up
- Host waste workshops: recycling and composting properly on campus
- Rain gardens redesign and maintenance
- Installation of low flow fixtures within Court 17
- Water reduction campaigns within bathrooms and dressing rooms
- Rainwater harvesting in Giving Garden
- Permeable pavement
- Use smaller solar panels during UW hosted outdoor events
- Solar projects or expansions
- Installation of efficient surge protectors
- Encourage green office certification programs
- Motion sensor lighting
Consider partnering with:
- Integrated Facilities Management
- Environmental Health and Safety
- College labs
- Green lab coordinator
- Research faculty on campus
- Center for Urban Waters
How to Get Involved
Get in touch with our team!
- email your ideas and questions to hsfuwt@uw.edu or lpetz@uw.edu
- Download the grant applications found on this page to learn more about what materials you should prepare
- follow us on Instagram @uwthsf
- Learn more about our campus-wide sustainability initiatives: Sustainability | Sustainability | University of Washington Tacoma
- Join the Husky Sustainability Fund on DUBNET to register for upcoming events
- Join the Giving Garden and Husky Volunteers on DUBNET to log volunteer hours for your sustainability work
