This grant will enable Inclusiv and its Puerto Rican partner to organize, develop and submit a collective application for $6 million in Mitigation Community Development Block Grant funding to fund up to 30 resiliency centers and use learnings to inform a collective response to a request for information from the Department of Energy about how best to deploy $1 billion set aside for roof-top and microgrid solar in Puerto Rico. View Website

This grant will enable Greenprint Partners to invest in staff development as it grows from 10 to 20 full-time employees in 2023. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the primary network through which local government sustainability practitioners access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website

This grant enables the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange to share knowledge and advance advocacy in addressing urban flooding through strengthened green stormwater infrastructure policies and practices. The Exchange will teach, convene and increase the capacity of municipal leaders to integrate equity into municipal green stormwater initiatives, support cross-city project collaborations, and build the membership’s community engagement capacity. View Website

The Green Leadership Trust supports BIPOC leaders who serve on the boards of environmental and climate nonprofit organizations, assisting them as advocates for diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion measures within their organizations and in their policy positions and connecting them to peer-learning networks. View Website

The grant will also provide communications training to Kresge’s Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems grant partners and the broader water field. View Website

This grant will enable the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to advance equitable clean energy policies, programs, and projects in cities across the U.S. ACEEE will support local governments and community-based organizations to design and implement comprehensive equity-driven approaches to clean energy, with a focus on housing. View Website

This renews support for the Clean Water for All Coalition, a coalition of local and national environmental, conservation, and community advocates that promotes federal investments in equitable water practices, including nature-based solutions to flooding, community-based workforce development, and others. View Website

This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website

Island Press will bolster the ability of urban practitioners to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation solutions into their work. The organization’s publications and training courses will increasingly promote promising practices emerging from leaders and communities of color to advance climate justice. View Website

This grant supports a Senior Fellow at the Tishman Environment and Design Center to provide expert advice and thought leadership on climate and environmental justice issues to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through an Intergovernmental Personnel Act agreement. The Senior Fellow will focus primarily on the implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to ensure that Justice40 commitments are met as its funds are deployed. View Website

People’s Solar Energy Fund will work with its network of community-based solar developers to increase the pipeline of viable solar projects in low-wealth communities by creating a bridge loan fund to enable its members to maximize Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives, providing mini-grants for innovative community-ownership models, and building a pipeline of community-solar projects that can benefit from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. View Website

This grant will support the launch and implementation of the Fellowship for Liberated Futures, designed to support the well-being and long-term leadership of Black women leading climate- and racial-justice efforts across the social sector. The fellowship responds to pervasive burnout among social justice leaders, especially Black-led organizations building power in communities of color. Fellows will engage in a robust program of in-person retreats, virtual meetings, and curated healing and wellness offerings to provide respite, closer ties with other social-change agents, and renewed energy to continue their work. View Website

This grant will strengthen the efforts of Collective Energy to develop resilient power systems for health centers in underserved communities, including through piloting new pathways, enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act, to monetize the federal Solar Investment Tax Credit; modeling an approach to system installation that expands diversity and opportunity in the clean-energy workforce; and undertaking community-centered educational and market-assessment activities, and completing predevelopment in at least five health centers each in Fresno and Hawaii. View Website

This grant will help the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition 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

The New School will partner with community stakeholders in Milwaukee and New York City to analyze the effects of green stormwater infrastructure on flood risk reduction and advocate for incorporating equity considerations into improving that infrastructure. View Website

The Institute for Market Transformation will expand its efforts to equitably decarbonize buildings by supporting local jurisdictions and frontline organizations in advancing equitable building performance policies, including in Chicago, Kansas City and New Orleans. It will also strengthen the enabling environment for equitable building performance policies. View Website

To enable Gemini Energy Solutions to refine, test, and improve its plan for Clean Energy Hubs, an ownership model for Black houses of worship and community-based organizations. The grant will support the project-level financial and operational models for Gemini. View Website

Clean Energy Group works to accelerate an equitable and inclusive transition to a resilient, sustainable, clean energy future. View Website

The Just Solutions Collective supports a racially and economically just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by advancing climate-justice movement strategy and impact, deepening and sustaining the bench of climate-justice policy leaders, and producing and disseminating research and policy analysis. The grant includes funding to explore strategies to protect race-conscious policy despite the Supreme Court’s recent rejection of affirmative action in higher education. View Website