Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute

To support BIPOC-led, grassroots, climate finance campaigns.

 
 

Action for the Climate Emergency

To educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action.

 
 

Alaska Wilderness League

To support the work of representatives of national, state-based and Indigenous-led groups in coalition to protect America’s Arctic from potential oil and gas development.

 
 

Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN)

To build an alliance of community and labor united for a just and sustainable New York.

 
 

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

To support the only national organization that specializes in educating and activating nurses on climate, environment and health advocacy, education, practice, and research, including promoting environmental justice through an Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship and Health Equity & Anti-Racism Leadership Institute.

 
 

American Indian Community House

To support an effort between NY-based Indigenous leaders and funders to create an Indigenous Center in Manhattan.

 
 

Building Equity and Alignment for Environmental Justice (BEA) Fund

To fund a participatory regranting effort led by grassroots and environmental justice representatives to shift power and resources from institutions to grassroots leadership across the environmental movement.

 
 

Bristol Bay Defense Fund

To bolster a campaign coalition of business, tribal, nonprofit, and community organizations dedicated to protecting Bristol Bay and its people from mining threats.

 
 

Center for American Progress

To support CAP’s leadership in a campaign to protect America’s Arctic from oil and gas extraction.

 
 

Center for Story-Based Strategy

To build collective narrative power for frontline leadership in advocating for a just transition to a regenerative economy

 
 

Climate for Health

To fund educational trainings, namely the Climate for Health Ambassadors Program, that equip health professionals with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and resources to speak and act confidently on climate change and solutions.

 
 

Elected Officials to Protect America

To provide trainings for elected officials to lead on environmental justice policy priorities, particularly legislators who are veterans, legislators of color, and legislators from frontline communities.

 
 

Environmental Advocates of New York

To ensure equity and justice in the implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in New York and beyond.

 
 

Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition

To support organizing efforts within Fairbanks & Interior Alaska communities advocating for a just transition from extractive industries to regenerative, clean energy economies.

 
 

For The Many

To fund an internship program for students across upstate New York to organize around For The Many’s climate and energy justice campaigns, namely public ownership of utilities and 100% renewable energy in New York State.

 
 

Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters

To develop the educational and cultural components of the Monumental Welcome Center within the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in partnership with the Wabanaki tribal council.

 
 

Grist

To sustain high-quality journalism that reports on the intersection of equity, climate change, and politics.

 
 

Gwich’in Steering Committee

To secure permanent protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to ensure the long-term health and viability of the Porcupine Caribou herd that sustains the Gwich’in way of life.

 
 

Health & Environmental Funders Network

To support peer learning among funders about participatory grantmaking efforts and build a community of practice that shifts grant-making decisions to BIPOC and grassroots leaders in the environmental movement.

 
 

Just Transition Alliance

To support conversations between environmental justice organizations, labor unions in polluting industries, and frontline workers and community members that lead to healthy workplaces and communities.

 
 

Justice Outside

To support leadership trainings and professional development of BIPOC outdoor leaders to remove the barriers that have historically prevented communities of color from accessing meaningful experiences in nature and professional opportunities in the outdoor sector.

 
 

Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health

To organize, empower, amplify, and mobilize U.S. doctors, medical societies, and allied health professionals to spread awareness of climate change as a health threat and call for action from local, state, and federal governments, including through a Climate and Health Equity Fellowship program to organize Black physicians in partnership with environmental justice organizations on climate and health equity campaigns.

 
 

Mosaic Momentum

To fund a nationwide participatory grantmaking effort, led by leaders across the environmental and environmental justice movements, to build a shared movement infrastructure and invest in organizations advocating for clean air and water, a safe climate, and healthy and just communities for all.

 
 

Native American Rights Fund

To fund NARF’s advocacy on behalf of the Gwich’in Nation to secure permanent protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

 
 

Native Land Conservancy

To support an internship for Indigenous students pursuing careers in conservation, as well as efforts to return Native land to tribal nations in Massachusetts and nationwide.

 
 
 

Native Movement

To provide leadership and support for grassroots-led projects that endeavor to ensure Indigenous Peoples’ rights, the rights of Mother Earth, and the building of healthy & sustainable communities for all.

 
 
 

Natural Resources Defense Council

To support work to defend against ill-conceived proposed fossil fuel, mineral, and natural resource extraction activities in America’s Arctic.

 
 

Northern Alaska Environmental Center

To promote conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.

 
 

New York Energy Democracy Alliance

To support a statewide alliance of community-based organizations, grassroots groups, and policy experts working together to advance a just and participatory transition to a resilient, localized, and democratically controlled clean energy economy in New York State.

 
 

New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

To support grassroots-led advocacy for equitable climate policies in New York City and State.

 
 

NY Renews

To advance work to make New York State a model for the nation in implementing a just transition to a sustainable, 100% clean energy economy.

 
 

Our Climate

To fund a paid fellowship program for high financial-needs youth climate leaders across the country to engage in climate advocacy.

 
 

Our Kids’ Climate

To fund Climate-Parent Fellowship that aims to support, connect, and amplify climate parent organizers as they grow their creative ideas, campaigns, and projects and contribute to the emerging climate-parent movement.

 
 

Physicians for Social Responsibility

To launch a Climate and Health Fellowship for a medical student to enhance PSR’s education and advocacy initiatives for a network of health professionals, and develop educational programming and resources on public health issues associated with climate change effects.

 
 

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England

To support reproductive health care services across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

 
 

Power Shift Network

To mobilize the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.

 
 

Progressive Multiplier

To fund the creation of a Climate Justice Fund, which provides re-grants to a cohort climate justice organizations to strengthen the independent financial position of those organizations outside of institutional philanthropy.

 
 

Public Housing Community Fund

To fund a joint NYC Housing Authority + Public Housing Community Fund Clean Energy Academy to train NYCHA residents with the skills needed to launch building electrification and clean energy careers.

 
 

Rebuild by Design

To fund collaborative, design-driven problem-solving to help communities in New York City build resilience to climate change.

 
 

Renew New England Alliance

To support a transformational regional alliance of grassroots organizations united in advocating for a Just Transition across New England.

 
 

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

To fund a leadership development fellowship for Indigenous leaders to learn best practices in rematriating land to Indigenous hands.

 
 

South Bronx Unite

To provide funding for a coalition of volunteers working to mobilize South Bronx residents and elected officials to improve and protect the social, environmental and economic future of the Mott Haven-Port Morris section of the South Bronx by implementing their Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan. 

 
 

The Telluride Foundation

To support sustainable and just economic conversion in Colorado’s West End communities.

 
 

The Chisholm Legacy Project

To support an effort to connect Black communities on the frontlines of climate justice and provide them with the resources to implement a Just Transition.

 
 

The New School | Tishman Environment and Design Center

To develop a fellowship program to support leadership development for a cohort of environmental justice leaders.

 
 

The Point Community Development Corporation

To support community-led efforts to build power among Bronx residents and to advance a community-led resilience plan that addresses climate change, displacement, and gentrification in Hunts Point and other Bronx neighborhoods.

 
 

Trekkers

To develop the leadership of youth through outdoor experiences and mentorship programs.

 
 

Trust for Public Land

To support the development of community forests across New England, allowing rural communities to strengthen their recreational economies while conserving their natural resources.

 
 

Trustees for Alaska

To ensure legal protection for wildlife, ecosystems, and communities in Alaska, including legal actions to prevent the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay and further oil drilling in the Arctic.

 
 

University of Michigan

To launch the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment, including programming, faculty, and student scholarships in environmental justice.

 
 

Waterfront Alliance

To support work that ensures resilient, revitalized and accessible coastlines for communities along New York Harbor.

 
 

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

To support efforts to rebuild historically impoverished neighborhoods in the South Bronx by providing direct services focused on environmental justice, food accessibility, health and nutrition, youth development, employment and economic stability, immigration, as well as robust community organizing and political education.