Environmental & Climate Justice grants

Environmental & Climate Justice grants is sponsored by Surdna Foundation. The Surdna Foundation provides grants to organizations working on environmental and climate justice, focusing on increasing power in communities most impacted, improving policies rooted in environmental and climate justice solutions, and increasing environmental funding to front…

Environmental & Climate Justice - Surdna Foundation Environmental & Climate Justice Adoption of Just Transition A Just Transition recognizes that a healthy economy and a clean environment can co-exist.

We support a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes and practices that builds economic and political power and works to shift from an extractive economy (one that relies on the extraction of labor, natural resources, culture) to a regenerative economy.

Increased Power in Communities Most Impacted We are committed to recognizing, listening to and moving resources in support of existing grassroots and frontline leaders in the environmental and climate justice movements as they continue to build their political, economic and cultural power.

Improved Policies Rooted in Environmental & Climate Justice Solutions We support policy changes that work towards reducing racial disparities of environmental and climate impacts. These solutions will reduce carbon emissions and address environmental problems that ensure the right of all people to live, learn, work and play in safe, healthy and clean environments.

Increased Environmental Funding Leading by example, we aim to increase environmental funding from public and private sources to frontline and grassroots organizations and movements with a racial equity lens.

People of color and low-wealth people, particularly those living in frontline communities, are faced with disproportionate, negative impacts of environmental degradation, climate change and failing infrastructure, and have been plagued by decades of disinvestment and racist planning practices.

Historic power imbalances from centuries of structural racism have resulted in the people most affected by environmental impacts being the least heard and valued. The environmental and climate justice movements address this disparity by centering impacted communities in the design and implementation of climate solutions.

These interrelated movements encourage self-determination of all people and are opposed to the role of trans/multi-national corporations in environmentally decimating communities.

Through deep collaboration with our grantee partners and philanthropic colleagues, we intentionally support people and organizations that build power within communities of color and low-wealth communities to address the systemic environmental injustices caused by historic power imbalance.

These movements are highly informed and have their own analysis about advancing environmental and climate justice solutions and the Sustainable Environments program elevates this work as it is organized in the field by naming both movements.

We use a variety of tools beyond grantmaking such as convenings, program related investments, and communications to play a role in shifting investments to frontline and grassroots organizations, particularly those led by people of color. VIDEO: Helen Chin, former Program Director for Sustainable Environments discusses why and how the foundation supports Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities to advance equity.

Represent and Reflect Communities We prioritize support for organizations led by individuals who represent and reflect the communities they serve. Deeply Rooted Relationships We support organizations whose leaders have developed deeply rooted relationships in the communities they serve. Campaigns and Policy Design We support organizations that are able to elevate and advance equity through campaign and policy design.

Build Power and Leadership We support campaigns designed to build power and leadership among grassroots and frontline organizations. We support groups that help our grantee partners develop the skills, knowledge and institutional and network capacity to advance their agendas.

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We also acknowledge that we have limited resources, nonprofits have limited time, and that very few unsolicited funding inquiries at our foundation have historically led to a grant. Given these realities, we are not accepting unsolicited letters of inquiry until further notice. Environmental & Climate Justice You can explore recent Environmental & Climate Justice grants below.

And view other Sustainable Environments grants in our database. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Greater New Orleans Foundation The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

Center for Coalfield Justice The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. THE POINT Community Development Corporation The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is project support for the New York City Forward Fund, a pooled fund housed at the New York Community Trust that will make grants to engage the community through nonprofits to support an efficient and effective mayoral transition in NYC.

Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute The purpose of this closeout grant is general operating support. The purpose of this project grant is to support the Initiative for Energy Justice’s work to transform complex energy challenges into actionable resources and empower U.S. communities and policymakers to create an equitable clean energy system.

Center for Story-based Strategy The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Emerald Cities Collaborative, Inc. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

National Partnership for New Americans The purpose of this project grant is to support the NPNA’s Climate Justice Collaborative to build the capacity of the immigrant rights movement to engage in climate justice campaigns and to make immigrant inclusion and migration pillars of the climate justice movement through capacity building, policy advocacy, power building, and narrative change.

The purpose of this grant is general program support to Reclaim our Power. People's Action Institute The purpose of this project support grant is to support People’s Action Institute’s People and Planet First program. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this project support grant to Gulf South to Appalachia Regional Formation Community Control Fund is for a pooled fund of philanthropic dollars to be distributed through a participatory budgeting process by and for grassroots communities across the South and Appalachia. New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

New York Energy Democracy Alliance The purpose of this grant is general program support to New York Energy Democracy Alliance. Assets Under Movement, Inc. The purpose of this grant is to provide general program support to Organizing Resilience, a program of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

Featured Reports & Publications Toward climate justice—A 10+ year evolution What is climate justice? How are foundations incorporating it into their work and making a positive impact? Author Seema Shah, Ph.

D. explores these questions in "Centering equity and justice in climate philanthropy." Commissioned by Ariadne and… Are Foundation Trustees Perpetuating Climate Injustice?

Here’s How We Can Change That. By Kelly Nowlin and Ernest Tollerson | First published in Inside Philanthropy The recent IPCC report couldn’t be clearer: The world needs wide-scale, transformative action, swift action, to ensure we don’t blow past the critical 1.

5 degrees… Surdna Joins the Climate Funders Justice Pledge “Surdna was proud to support Building Equity and Alignment for Impact’s (BEA) report, which found that 12 national environmental funders gave just 1. 3% of their annual giving to environmental justice groups.

There is an abundance of BIPOC-led… Watch: Helen Chin on the Intersection of Environmental, Economic, and Racial Justice "To address climate and environmental inequities, we need to think holistically about the role of race and what justice means. We need to look at all aspects of our life.

And acknowledge that the root of many injustices is the commoditization of… Equitable Evaluation: Learning with the Frontlines of Racial Justice How can we in philanthropy do a better job of supporting the kind of collaboration and shared learning that grassroots organizations need to grow their movements?

In 2019, the Surdna Foundation Sustainable Environments team set out to better… CFF 2020 Food Movement Support Fund The CFF 2020 Food Movement Support Fund is a one-time grant program administered by Community Food Funders (CFF) and North Star Fund.

Surdna is a member of the Community Food Funders, a network of foundations in the NY-NJ-CT area that support… Sustainable Environments' Learning Summaries With the closeout of the Sustainable Environments Program's Transportation, Regional Food Supply, and Urban Stormwater Management lines of work, Surdna produced a series of learning summaries that capture the lessons learned from funding in those… How NFG is Disrupting Funder-Grantee Dynamics Helen Chin has just led the Surdna Foundation’s Sustainable Environments Program through a strategy refinement process.

“Now,” she says, with satisfaction, “We are able to connect more robustly with what’s bubbling from the ground… Philanthropic Leadership Means Following the Frontlines When we talk about “building the capacity” of frontline and grassroots leaders who are changing structures, policies, and systems, what does that really mean for funders?

Many funders use antiquated and static systems of inquiry to identify and… You can explore recent Environmental & Climate Justice grants below. And view other Sustainable Environments grants in our database. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Greater New Orleans Foundation The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Center for Coalfield Justice The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this grant is general operating support. THE POINT Community Development Corporation The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is project support for the New York City Forward Fund, a pooled fund housed at the New York Community Trust that will make grants to engage the community through nonprofits to support an efficient and effective mayoral transition in NYC. Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute The purpose of this closeout grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this project grant is to support the Initiative for Energy Justice’s work to transform complex energy challenges into actionable resources and empower U.S. communities and policymakers to create an equitable clean energy system. Center for Story-based Strategy The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Emerald Cities Collaborative, Inc. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

National Partnership for New Americans The purpose of this project grant is to support the NPNA’s Climate Justice Collaborative to build the capacity of the immigrant rights movement to engage in climate justice campaigns and to make immigrant inclusion and migration pillars of the climate justice movement through capacity building, policy advocacy, power building, and narrative change.

The purpose of this grant is general program support to Reclaim our Power. People's Action Institute The purpose of this project support grant is to support People’s Action Institute’s People and Planet First program. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. The purpose of this project support grant to Gulf South to Appalachia Regional Formation Community Control Fund is for a pooled fund of philanthropic dollars to be distributed through a participatory budgeting process by and for grassroots communities across the South and Appalachia. New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

New York Energy Democracy Alliance The purpose of this grant is general program support to New York Energy Democracy Alliance. Assets Under Movement, Inc. The purpose of this grant is to provide general program support to Organizing Resilience, a program of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation. The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

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