About Us
Tomorrow, by digital collagist Divine Agbeko
We are at an inflection point, with an urgent opportunity to diminish the power of dirty energy industries and reshape the backbone of our country by building an energy system that is renewable, just, and cleaner than any we’ve had before. The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice was launched in 2019 to support groups led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian American, and Pacific Islander women and other frontline leaders in the US South that are playing impactful roles but have historically lacked access to funding.
Our Goals
We focus our grantmaking on groups that are building people, economic, and cultural power to achieve two interconnected goals:
Rapidly transition to cleaner, renewable energy in ways that equitably redistribute leadership, ownership, and benefits to disinvested communities in the US South and beyond.
Stop the expansion of dirty energy, reduce pollution and other direct harms to communities in the US South, and weaken the fossil fuel industry’s political, economic, and social stranglehold.
We also aim to increase the positional power of women of color and other frontline leaders working toward these goals, intentionally disrupting a history of systemic exclusion and under-resourcing so that we all benefit from fuller contributions.
How We Work
With staff and advisors based throughout the region, we provide deep geographic, cultural, tactical, and issue-specific knowledge and cultivate trusted relationships with local funders and nonprofit organizations that help us identify grantee partners, co-create strategy, and inform funding decisions.
We fund grantee partners with significant amounts of multiyear general support funding and trust in their expertise. We often fund multiple organizations in a geography or sector to facilitate collaboration over competition and support many tactics and levers of change. We don’t require groups to work in single-issue silos and support groups that multisolve — leverage their resources and skill to address multiple problems at once.
The Hive Fund fosters a learning community with other funders to explore strategies to address systemic funding barriers and maximize benefit to grantees.
