Thank you for supporting the work of Climate Innovation
The Climate Innovation team has been a powerhouse supporting vibrant movements across the country using a community-driven approach to empower grassroots communities to be solution makers. Your support enables us to:
- Build capacity among community-based organizations as well as systems leaders in key regions across the U.S. in order to map their regional ecosystems through a transformative climate resilience strategy lens.
- Cultivate networks of leaders, experts and organizations, including the next generation of frontline community climate leaders, to advance community-driven climate resilience work.
Young Black Climate Leaders Youth Futures Fund. This fund, supports young Black leaders who are taking initiative to dismantle white supremacy culture and disrupting climate chaos. Supporting this fund enables a new generation of Black climate leaders to dream and reimagine a liberatory world through their own lens and experience in ways that truly honor and illuminate the ongoing contributions of Black people to the environmental movement and movements at large. Advancing work and initiatives at the intersection of racial and environmental justice by amplifying the power of leaders who advocate for community participation, and restoration of indigenous ecological wisdom and practices of the African diaspora.
Community Driven Planning Fund through the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP). This fund, designed and governed by NACRP members, will support community-driven planning processes that are governed by community-driven planners and facilitators. Each year, NACRP members can submit recommendations for funding to resource communities and/or facilitators accountable to Black, Brown or Indigenous communities to launch, continue, or complete a community-driven planning process.
Community Climate Shift (CCS) initiative. Grow the Community Climate Shift (CCS) Fund activated by climate equity and justice practitioners across the country providing capacity building resources to frontline organizations directly practicing community-owned infrastructure. This call for a $100 million investment will support frontline organizations and coalitions’ capacity to lead partnerships with government to reduce emissions via comprehensive policy-making (building performance standards and beyond) while advancing community priorities for climate equity and justice grounded in the Just Transition framework.
General Fund. Want to support a little bit of everything? Make a donation to our general fund, which supports all aspects of Climate Innovation’s work and operations.
