The 2024 Giving Project will focus on Environmental Justice, making grants to support organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental injustice.
Donor Name: Social Justice Fund NorthWest
State: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The “environment” in the context of the environmental justice movement is defined as the spaces where they live, work, learn, play, pray, and heal. This grant will fund rural and urban organizations working at the intersection of environmental, racial, and economic justice to create sustainable, self-determined and just communities.
They will prioritize funding organizations with Black, Indigenous, and/or POC leadership, and/or who conduct most of their work in reservation communities, and/or rural, small town communities.
Some examples of organizing work that is eligible for this grant include:
- Resource mobilization for affordable and healthy housing, addressing neighborhood blight, etc.
- Organizing efforts supporting access to clean and healthy food, water and air
- Leadership development programs for environmental justice and health equity
- Facilitating just transition and climate resilience work
- Developing community processes, practices or civic engagement addressing neighborhood blight.
Funding Information
Grant Awards: 2-year grants of $50,000 ($25K/year).
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that work within SJF’s community organizing framework
- Nonprofit organizations, tribal agencies, or groups sponsored by a nonprofit organization or tribal agency
- This grant can fund:
- Organizations with 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 status as determined by the IRS
- Federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency
- Organizations that are fiscally sponsored by 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 organizations or by federally recognized tribal governments
- This grant can fund:
- Organizations that carry out their work in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming.
For more information, visit Social Justice Fund NorthWest.