Environmental Programs Windward Fund is sponsored by Windward Fund. Supports conservation groups with grants for environmental programs.

Environmental Justice | Windward Fund At Windward, we believe that everyone deserves a safe and clean environment regardless of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or gender. Many of our projects are working to mitigate the systemic inequities that have disproportionately impacted marginalized communities—particularly communities of color.

Projects are investing capital and creating policies and initiatives in these communities to ensure climate change solutions are equitable, sustainable, and beneficial to all. Environmental Justice Projects Hive Fund raises funds and makes grants to groups working to accelerate the transition from dirty to clean energy in ways that center justice, redistribute power, and create healthier, safer, and more prosperous communities.

Its grantmaking is focused in the US South—a region whose high pollution levels, abundant clean energy opportunities, and legacy of environmental justice leadership make it critical for global climate progress.

Hive Fund’s grant dollars go to organizations led by impactful leaders—nearly three quarters of them Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming people—that have historically been overlooked and undervalued by philanthropy.

The Fund to Build Grassroots Power provides flexible support to strengthen and grow the capacity and power of members and affiliates of four national grassroots networks, with the goal of advancing environmental and climate justice in the United States.

The Fund to Build Grassroots Power awards grants to organizations that are led by constituencies who have been historically suppressed and who work on a variety of issues, such as environmental and climate justice, farmworker rights, and economic security. Heartland Fund is the first funding collaborative built to support and connect local organizations working for progress across diverse communities in rural areas and small cities.

The fund believes our country is stronger when we bridge across racial, economic, and geographic differences to drive solutions. Heartland invests in permanent civic engagement, issue advocacy, community organizing infrastructure, and sustainable urban-rural coalitions. In addition to grantmaking, Heartland also supports rural efforts through convening, research, and communications.

Together, the project is building a stronger democracy, healthy climate, and shared prosperity. The Windward Fund is proud to offer a variety of services to our clients and donors. Domestic and International Grantmaking Domestic and International Grantmaking Windward offers comprehensive fiscal sponsorship to projects that are legal entities but do not have tax-exempt status.

Our project hosting services enable philanthropists and changemakers to more quickly achieve their social impact goals—even on the most complex challenges. Your dedicated team will provide your project with the needed support and systems to help you get a project off the ground and scale quickly and cost-effectively. We worry about the details, so projects and their donors don’t have to.

Windward’s team executes US and international grantmaking for projects. Our expertise and sophisticated technical infrastructure enable us to quickly move funds to on-the-ground initiatives so that grantees can implement their programs. Our entire grantmaking cycle is 30 days or less, and our web-based grants administration allows applicants easy 24/7 access no matter where they are located.

Windward provides a platform for projects that have multiple donors working together toward common goals. We provide a neutral arena for collaboration and pride ourselves on helping donors and other leaders work together efficiently and effectively.

We have helped build collaboratives from the ground up, including creating governance structures to enable effective decision-making, establishing and coordinating advisory boards, and supporting a wide range of project activities. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Windward Fund has the flexibility to engage in advocacy and a limited amount of lobbying.

Windward’s projects can benefit from our team’s compliance expertise to launch campaigns that seek to impact policy change at the state, federal, and international level. Contact us today and someone from our team will be in touch with you as soon as possible.