Climate Justice Impact Strategy

Climate Justice Impact Strategy is sponsored by Seattle Foundation. Seattle Foundation's comprehensive work ensures that communities of color and low-income communities lead efforts to reduce the disproportionate effects of climate change. The strategy focuses on reducing climate risks, adapting to impacts, and ensuring community resiliency.

Climate Justice Impact Strategy - Seattle Foundation Climate Justice Impact Strategy Reduce the disproportionate impact of climate change on people experiencing low income and communities of color The Climate Justice Impact Strategy is Seattle Foundation’s comprehensive work to ensure that communities of color and low-income communities are leading and shaping efforts to reduce the disproportionate effects of climate change that they experience.

Reducing the risks of climate change requires addressing its root causes, identifying and adapting to its impacts and ensuring community resiliency to respond to climate change. We invest in community-based research, build coalitions that bridge social and environmental justice and strengthen the capacity of nonprofits working to advance climate solutions.

We use our voice, exercise our leadership and align philanthropic efforts to increase climate justice for our most vulnerable communities. Clean energy solutions can help Tribal communities achieve energy sovereignty, according to Preserving a Way of Life , a new film by the Clean Energy Transition Institute . CETI is a Seattle Foundation grant recipient.

Research shows that frontline low-income and communities of color are first and worst hit by climate change and its impacts. In Washington, 46 percent of all toxic sites are in areas mostly populated by people of color, while 56 percent are in largely low-income areas.

These communities experience the harms of pollution and climate change, including extreme weather events, contaminated drinking water and waterways, poor air quality and unhealthy housing.

Due to the legacy of discriminatory zoning laws, employment practices and banking policies, communities of color in Washington state also have greater barriers to transportation, healthy housing, education, insurance and other resources that help them deal with the impacts of climate change. Goals of the Impact Strategy Use our leadership to raise awareness of climate change’s disproportionate impacts on communities of color.

Support an inclusive movement toward community-led solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Ensure that efforts, systems and policies to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change benefit communities of color and low income communities. 2024-2025 Climate Justice Impact Strategy Grantees Joy is when Seattle’s possibilities are shared by all.

It is families in homes they love, connected to vibrant communities, with the opportunity for fulfilling lives. Today, Seattle Foundation launches the Journey to Joy campaign, with an aim to bring this vision to life. We invite you to join a movement that creates lasting change for generations to come.