Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition This grant will help the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, a BIPOC-led community organization working to protect the lowest-lying area in Seattle from climate-induced urban flooding and displacement, advocate, provide technical assistance, and build public-private sector consensus for equitable implementation of planned city stormwater infrastructure projects, greenspace expansion, and affordable housing development. View Website Amount $135,000 Year 2022 Location Seattle, WA Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems
Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc. This grant will support a fund to award grants to frontline organizations to support their engagement in the design and implementation of policies and programs that encourage buildings to shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2022 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems
Healthy Schools Campaign This grant supports the construction and educational programming for four new Chicago schoolyards, transforming them into safe, shared greenspace for learning, play, and environmental literacy while using green stormwater infrastructure to reduce flooding in low-income, flood-prone communities. It will solidify capital funding and governing agreements from city partners for future schoolyards. View Website Amount $90,000 Year 2022 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems
EcoAdapt This grant supports the 2022 National Adaptation Forum, which is the nation’s premier event for climate adaptation knowledge exchange. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2022 Location Bainbridge Island, Washington Program Environment Focus Area Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools
American Flood Coalition Inc. American Flood Coalition, Inc. (AFC) is a nonpartisan group of cities, elected officials, military leaders, businesses, and civic groups that have come together to drive adaptation to the reality of higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding through national solutions that support flood-affected communities and protect our nation’s residents, economy, and military installations. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area
Climate Innovation This grant will support Climate Innovation (CI) to strengthen capacity and alignment in the climate-resilience field. CI has been an effective leader in building the equitable climate-resilience field, facilitating cross-sector partnerships, cultivating community leadership, and developing tools and best practices to elevate the impact of community-driven climate-resilience planning processes. View Website Amount $425,000 Year 2021 Location Program Environment Focus Area Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools
Resources Legacy Fund Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) and its partners, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and the Greenlining Institute (Greenlining), will convene an independent Community Resilience Action Committee (advisory committee) to advise the development of a state-wide climate vulnerability mapping platform designed to drive more equitable implementation of climate-resilience policies in local communities across California. Amount $444,000 Year 2021 Location https://resourceslegacyfund.org/ Program Environment Focus Area Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools
US Climate Action Network U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN) is a membership group of 190 organizations with a shared mission of building trust and alignment to fight climate change in a just and equitable way. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2021 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
Partnership for Southern Equity This grant supports the Justice 40 Accelerator (J4A), a partnership of five organizations that have demonstrated commitment to racial equity and a strong track record advancing just and equitable climate solutions, to help position community-based grassroots organizations to be more competitive in accessing funding administered by federal, state, and local agencies through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice 40 Initiative - which directs 40% of the benefits of federal climate and clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities View Website Amount $550,000 Year 2021 Location Atlanta, Georgia Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
New York City Energy Efficiency Corp. This grant will enable the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC) to develop its pipeline of solar+storage (S+S) projects, which combine solar panels with batteries to reduce carbon emissions while ensuring access to electricity during disruptions of the power grid. View Website Amount $100,000 Year Location New York, New York Program Environment, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems
Environmental Leadership Program This grant will allow the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) to continue the RAY Clean Energy Diversity Fellowship Program, which provides recent college graduates of color with two-year fellowships at organizations committed to advancing clean energy and climate action so as to equip them with substantive work experience, tools, and guidance to become climate leaders. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2021 Location Greenbelt, Maryland Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice This grant provides flexible support to the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, which awards multiyear, general-support grants to organizations led by Black women, Indigenous women, women of color, and others working on the frontlines to address the intersecting climate, gender, and racial crises in the U.S. Amount $1,075,000 Year 2021 Location Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc. This grant will enable WE ACT for Environmental Justice to collaborate with PUSH Buffalo and others to complete the “Out of Gas, In with Justice” pilot project demonstrating the feasibility and benefits of electrifying affordable multifamily housing in New York City and Buffalo, New York. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2021 Location New York, New York Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems
The Solutions Project This grant provides general operating support to The Solutions Project (TSP), which awards grants to frontline organizations led by women, immigrants, and people of color for neighborhood-level, intersectional climate solutions, focusing on California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and New York. View Website Amount $725,000 Year 2021 Location Oakland, CA Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
American Society of Adaptation Professionals This grant will renew general operating support to the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) to strengthen the climate-adaptation field of practice with justice and equity in the forefront. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2021 Location Montpelier, Vermont Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
Groundwork New Orleans This grant provides general operating support to Groundwork New Orleans (GWNO), an organization that engages residents, businesses, and government officials to revitalize neighborhoods and transform community liabilities into community assets. Amount $50,000 Year 2021 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
Healthy Gulf This renewal grant will allow Healthy Gulf to support effective adaptation to a changing climate in the Greater New Orleans area and surrounding coastal parishes. View Website Amount $120,000 Year 2021 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Environment Focus Area Building Capacity and Commitment
EcoAdapt This grant provides general operating support to EcoAdapt, an organization that brings together diverse players to reshape planning and management in response to rapid climate change. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2021 Location Bainbridge Island, Washington Program Environment Focus Area Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools
Trustees of Columbia University This grant supports the Cities Climate Law Initiative, a project of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The Initiative assists city legal departments and sustainability offices with legal questions surrounding local action to advance ambitious and equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2021 Location New York, NY Program Environment Focus Area Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools
Just Solutions Collective This grant supports the Just Solutions Collective (JSC), which assists frontline community-based organizations working to advance a racially and economically just transition to renewable energy. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2021 Location Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Key Urban Systems