The Trust for Mutual Understanding’s application process will open back up on December 1, 2025. At that time, you will have two weeks (until 5pm EST on December 15th) to submit an initial inquiry for the February 1, 2026 full application deadline (for projects taking place July 1, 2026 or later). Please continue to check here for any additional updates.
Mission
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU) awards grants to American nonprofit organizations to support direct exchange in the arts and the environment (and the intersection of the two) between professionals from the United States and our geographic region of 28 countries:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Our grantees
Our geographic region
TMU Geographic Region Map
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA and Uzbekistan.
Visit the Grantee Voices for more!
András Török in Conversation with Barnabás Bencsik
February, 2018
Moving Away From Agricultural Burning in Ukraine
January, 2017
Unlikely Allies: Owls And Loggers
September, 2015