This will fund Elevate to lead staffing, planning, and coordination between community organizations and city agencies in developing a network of three resilience hubs on the flood-prone east side of Detroit. Each hub will develop upgraded building systems (e.g. solar power with battery storage and green stormwater infrastructure) available to residents during emergencies and recovery from emergencies View Website

The US Water Alliance (Alliance) will create enabling policy environments for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) implementation at the local, state, and field levels toward equitable, climate-forward water infrastructure planning and implementation. The Alliance will establish a State Revolving Fund (SRF) Community of Practice and increase its Water Equity Network’s capacity to engage on state-level equitable infrastructure funding. View Website

This grant provides renewal support to the Georgetown Climate Center’s (Center) Adaptation Program.  The Center will help U.S. cities plan, design, and implement equitable climate-adaptation strategies by offering legal and policy support, providing assistance in accessing federal funding, and facilitating cross-jurisdictional collaboration. View Website

This grant supports the work of the Equitable & Just National Climate Forum, a venue for environmental justice and national environmental groups to build trust, align on policy positions, discuss tension points, and jointly advance implementation of a shared policy agenda. Forum participants will work to deliver historic investments in environmental justice and climate justice through implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Justice40 Initiative, among other measures. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Groundwork New Orleans, an organization that engages local residents, businesses, and government officials to revitalize neighborhoods and transform community liabilities into assets.  Groundwork New Orleans hires and trains young people to install and maintain green infrastructure to mitigate urban flooding and is expanding its offerings to include training in solar installation.

This grant supports New Jersey Future’s (NJF) Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers Campaign (campaign), an effort to ensure community advocates influence the equitable development of stormwater infrastructure investments. The campaign increases local leadership capacity through a Community Leaders Fellowship Program and supports multi-stakeholder collaborations in combined-sewer overflow-affected communities with resources and technical support. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC), a national organization working to create sustainable, just, and inclusive regional economies. ECC engages community, government, labor, and other public and private sector leaders to ensure that racial equity, economic inclusion, and community wealth building strategies are prioritized in climate and energy policies and programs at the local, state, and federal levels. View Website

This grant will enable the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance (MiCHWA) to design, distribute and evaluate a curriculum for community health workers focused on the health effects of climate change.  The curriculum, which will be distributed nationally, will prepare community health workers to both identify locally specific climate health threats as well as to engage with a range of partners to pursue solutions. View Website

Freshwater Future (FWF) will provide tools and technical assistance to inform equitable water-resilience planning and decision-making in Southeast Michigan. Locally, FWF will support residents in five Detroit and Flint neighborhoods in documenting flooding, water service shutoffs, and lead service lines to inform equitable placement and design of water infrastructure and engage in local and federal water advocacy. View Website

This grant will strengthen the organizational capacity of RE-volv to finance affordable solar systems for community-serving nonprofits across the country. RE-volv will: 1) increase its team capacity to manage existing programs and operations and manage larger amounts of capital to scale their solar finance model; 2) strengthen partnerships and processes with Interfaith Power and Light and Green the Church to successfully implement a Kresge PRI to support the installation of solar systems in Black Houses of Worship; and 3) increase narrative storytelling capacity to highlight the social and environmental benefits of community-serving nonprofits going solar. View Website

Support for Center for Neighborhood Technology to analyze the Justice40 Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool to advocate for more equitable federal investment guidelines, examine the equity impacts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Risk Rating 2.0 flood insurance pricing system, and co-design a resource that provides best practices on centering community needs in green stormwater infrastructure practices. View Website

This grant will support WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WE ACT) to implement the Cecil Corbin-Mark Fellowship program, which provides recent college graduates of color with a year-long fellowship at WE ACT to work on issues of climate justice and community advocacy. Fellows will gain valuable insight on policy development and implementation at the local, state, and federal level, gain experience in community organizing and environmental health, and engage in professional development opportunities across the environmental field. View Website

The New School will partner with local stakeholders in Milwaukee, WI and New York City, NY to map the disproportionate impacts of flood risk on socially vulnerable populations, model the effects of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) on flood risk reduction, and recommend locations for GSI implementation to maximize equity. The New School also will disseminate research findings concerning incorporating equity considerations into municipal GSI implementation, provide technical mapping assistance to Kresge CREWS network partners, and advance federal advocacy toward equitable GSI climate solutions. View Website

This grant provides general operating support for the Alliance for Affordable Energy (Alliance), an advocate for fair, affordable, and environmentally responsible energy policy in New Orleans and Louisiana. The Alliance will focus on increasing utility and government investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects benefitting low-wealth communities and communities of color as well as on much-needed new investments in resilient power infrastructure. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Anthropocene Alliance (A2), a national network of frontline communities that have survived flooding and collectively seek solutions to climate-related flooding, public health, and integrated water-management issues. A2 will connect network members with pro-bono scientific, legal, planning, and communications technical assistance; help them apply for federal green infrastructure and climate relocation funding; and work with national coalitions to advance research, policies, and practices for nature-based flooding solutions with multiple community benefits View Website

The Center for American Progress (CAP) will leverage its multidisciplinary policy expertise, convening power, relationships with environmental justice partners and other key stakeholders, and sophisticated communications capacity to influence implementation of historic climate mitigation, resilience, and environmental justice investments authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. View Website

The Center for American Progress (CAP) will leverage its multidisciplinary policy expertise, convening power, relationships with environmental justice partners and other key stakeholders, and sophisticated communications capacity to influence implementation of historic climate mitigation, resilience, and environmental justice investments authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. View Website

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. This project will serve as a model for affordable housing owners and managers and will inform community-based organizations as well as local, state, and federal policymakers. View Website

This grant will support the development of programming at a Climate Justice Pavilion at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) that will focus on equity and justice in the climate change space by elevating the voices and perspectives of U.S. and international climate justice leaders. View Website

This grant from the Environment and Arts and Culture teams provides general operating support to the Climate Justice Alliance, a national network of grassroots organizations focused on climate resilience and grounded in equity and justice. The Alliance provides technical assistance, elevates frontline voices within the broader climate movement, provides capital, and uses cultural strategy as part of climate organizing efforts. View Website