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Find similar grantsSustainable Development Program is sponsored by Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Supports projects that advance a just transition to a low-carbon economy, focusing on climate mitigation and community-led renewable energy initiatives.
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The Youth Climate Finance Alliance (YCFA) empowers the next generation to fight for climate justice. Human activity is causing climate change and rapid loss of biodiversity, and accelerating degradation of Earth’s life support systems. These developments threaten the livelihoods, health, and security of people in all nations and cultures as well as the well-being of the greater community of life.
The RBF’s sustainable development grantmaking endeavors to address these challenges by supporting development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The program supports global stewardship that is ecologically based, economically sound, socially just, culturally appropriate, and consistent with intergenerational equity.
The Fund encourages government, business, and civil society to work collaboratively on climate change, to acknowledge the moral and ethical consequences of inaction, and to make it an integral part of all development planning and activity. Recognizing the global nature of many environmental problems, the Fund also promotes international cooperation in addressing these challenges.
The Sustainable Development program maintains a significant focus on the United States in light of its disproportionate impact on the global economy, politics, and the environment. The program’s work is also advanced in collaboration with the Fund’s “pivotal place” programs—Central America, China, and the Western Balkans—and with the Democratic Practice program’s Global Challenges portfolio.
Pivotal Place programs support work in specific countries or regions to build the knowledge, policies, organizational capacity, and leadership needed to advance sustainable development in locally appropriate ways. The Fund’s Democratic Practice–Global Challenges portfolio supports broad participation in forging the international agreements and institutional arrangements needed to encourage investment in sustainable development.
Fund staff work to ensure that global developments inform work in specific places and that locally grounded efforts generate lessons and innovations needed for global impact. With the recognition that the impact of unchecked climate change threatens all other conservation efforts, the Sustainable Development program focuses its U.S. grantmaking on building a green economy at the federal, state, and local levels.
The Sustainable Development program is focused on efforts to promote effective climate policies in the United States through support for high-leverage opportunities at the federal, state, and municipal levels (including New York City, the Fund’s home). In addition, the program provides support for select international efforts to advance global climate negotiations.
Goal: Advance Solutions to Climate Change Building public and policymaker understanding and support for a range of actions to address the threat of climate change. Supporting implementation efforts to build a clean energy economy at the federal, state, and local levels. Supporting efforts to reduce reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources.
Supporting targeted efforts to advance international progress on climate change.
Urban Sustainability Directors Network Climate Jobs National Resource Center, Inc. See All Recent Sustainable Development Grants The Sustainable Development program makes grants to support charitable causes aiming to combat climate change; it does not purchase interest in for-profit enterprises, including through program-related investments (PRI) or impact investments.
(For more information on the Fund’s investing efforts, see Mission-Aligned Investing.) The program does not contribute to capital expenses, including for sustainable energy or water projects. We do not fund scholarship or fellowship programs and cannot make grants to individuals.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Tax-exempt nonprofit organizations globally, primarily those working on climate policy, conservation, and sustainable development. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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Sustainable Development Program is funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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Peacebuilding Program is sponsored by Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Peacebuilding program funds organizations with strong records of collaboration on conflict transformation, utilizing nonviolent strategies to open space for critical thinking and renewed public debate on the realities of conflict. It focuses on conflicts with a disproportionate influence on global security and significant U.S. involvement, aiming to shift U.S. foreign policy towards peace, justice, and human security. The program supports policy analysis, dialogue, and pro-peace movements, with a particular interest in engaging women, youth, local communities, and marginalized groups in peacebuilding processes.
Democratic Practice–Global Challenges is sponsored by Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Democratic Practice–Global Challenges program funds work at the intersections of environment, economy, and social justice. It supports analysis and communication of global processes, citizen organizing for just energy transitions and equitable trade rules, and innovative ideas to address global challenges. The program prioritizes organizations led by and/or accountable to the people of the Global South, but also seeks to strengthen democracy in the United States.
Thematic and Pivotal Place Programs (Grant Inquiry) is sponsored by Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) supports organizations working in three thematic areas (Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, and Peacebuilding) and three pivotal places (China, Central America, and Western Balkans). The Fund seeks to support movement building and policy development that can transform systems and create lasting solutions to persistent challenges such as climate change and democratic erosion. Geographic focus: United States, China, Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), and Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) Focus areas: Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Social Justice
Empowering Communities Grants is sponsored by PPL Foundation. These grants enrich the overall vitality of the community through programs that protect the environment and improve people's lives. Focus areas include environmental stewardship and education. Projects involving native plant pollinator habitat restoration within the Schuylkill watershed could align with environmental stewardship goals.
Brown Girl Jane x SheaMoisture Grant is a grant from SheaMoisture and Brown Girl Jane that funds Black and woman-owned beauty and wellness businesses in the United States. Part of SheaMoisture's broader commitment to addressing racial inequality through its $1 million annual giving fund, this program specifically supports founders at the intersection of Black and women-owned entrepreneurship in the beauty and wellness sector. Applicants must be based in the U.S. and have operated their business for at least one year. Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. Check the SheaMoisture Fund website for the current open cycle, as deadlines vary by cohort.