LANGUAGE FOR SWITZER GRANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following is a guide for recipients of Switzer Environmental Fellowships, Switzer Leadership Grants,
Switzer Collaborative Initiatives and Network Innovation Grants, and Switzer Professional Development
Grants on preferred language for acknowledging the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation as a funder of
your work. This guide has been developed to help alleviate confusion over how our various grant
programs should be referenced (e.g., fellowships vs. other grants, and how Switzer Fellows should refer to
themselves in each context). We encourage Fellows and grantees to use this language whenever possible,
and to acknowledge the funding from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation where appropriate. Our
logo is available as a jpeg on the private side of the Switzer website (accessible to Switzer Fellows and
staff, in a folder labeled ‘Grantee Publicity’ under the Documents section) and can be used with any
publicity for your grant award.
Switzer Environmental Fellowships – and ALL Switzer Fellows
For Switzer Environmental Fellowship award recipients, we encourage you to identify yourself as a Switzer
Fellow on your resume, on your website, on your social media pages (e.g., LinkedIn), wherever you list
professional accomplishments.
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For your resume, you should list yourself as having received a “Switzer Environmental Fellowship”
and the year in which you received your fellowship. (We have that information if you need it.)
To acknowledge the Foundation as a funder for your graduate research, please recite the entire
name of the Foundation, i.e., “The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation.”
Remember that you are considered a “Switzer Fellow” even beyond your Fellowship year, so you
may use the title anytime. It also helps other Switzer Fellows and colleagues identify you and helps
promote the program and your accomplishments.
Switzer Leadership, Network Innovation, and Professional Development Grants
If you have received funding to work with an organization under any Switzer Grant Program, please
acknowledge the Switzer funding as follows: “Funding provided by the Robert and Patricia Switzer
Foundation.” It is also fine for organizations to list the Foundation simply as a donor, and in that case,
please use the full Foundation name “Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation.” Switzer Fellows receiving
funding under any of these grant programs should still refer to themselves as a “Switzer Fellow” (not, for
example, Switzer Leadership Fellow. You could say, “Switzer Leadership Program grantee” instead).
Lastly, the full name of each grant program is as follows:
 Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program
 Switzer Environmental Leadership Grant Program
 Switzer Professional Development Grants
 Switzer Network Innovation Grants
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