The EPA’s Solar for All program awarded over $1 billion to projects that include Hive Fund grantee partners in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina. These awards are the result of years of partnership-building, community organizing, and collaborative planning that the Hive Fund is proud to have supported.
Read MoreThis month we are both welcoming Jada Sherman as our new program officer for climate and economic justice in the Atlantic Coast region, and saying goodbye to Jill Cartwright, our first Atlantic Coast program officer who was instrumental in shaping our grantmaking in the region.
Read MoreWe join our partners in celebrating the historic announcement last week of groups selected to administer $20 billion in funding for cleaner energy and pollution reduction projects through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), including seven Hive Fund grantee partners who individually and as part of broader coalitions were awarded $8 billion.
Read MoreWomen of color leaders across the US South are bringing in wins big and small that propel us toward cleaner energy, build health and wealth in disinvested communities, and protect democratic rights.
Read MoreIn honor of Valentine’s Day, we invited our staff and advisors to share their love and gratitude for the tireless leaders working for climate, racial, and gender justice. We made some templates so you can too.
Read MorePresident Biden announced that his Administration will “heed the calls of young people and frontline communities who are using their voices to demand action from those with the power to act” and will pause review of liquified natural gas export permits to “take a hard look at the impact of LNG exports on energy costs, America’s energy security, and our environment.” This is a momentous victory for all the frontline leaders who have been courageously challenging the expansion of these mammoth polluting facilities for many years.
Read MoreThis fall we're moving resources to civic engagement groups working in ever stronger coalitions to engage voters and protect democracy; strengthening disinvested communities’ capacity to compete for federal funding for clean energy and resilience projects; and supporting groups pushing back against carbon capture and sequestration and biofuels projects that threaten the health of their communities.
Read MoreWe caught up with Ashley Shelton, leader of one of the Louisiana’s most powerful civic engagement tables, in the run-up to the state’s general election to talk about ways they are using culture and joy to galvanize voters in the face of increasing voter suppression and intimidation, efforts to restrict public input, criminalization of protest, and other attacks on democracy.
Read MoreFind stories, insights, and funding opportunities from grantee partners’ work toward climate, racial, and gender justice in our 2023 Impact Report.
Read MoreRoanoke Cooperative, a rural electric coop (REC), has emerged as a regional leader in strategies to reduce energy use and build a cleaner grid while lowering costs for their member owners. Its work is demonstrating how, with support to innovate, pilot, and scale, RECs can serve as anchors for energy transformation in rural areas.
Read MoreOpposition to planned desalination plants that would provide water for a massive fossil fuel processing and export buildout in Corpus Christi, Texas has brought together community and environmental groups in a powerful coalition that is taking on these industries and racking up important wins.
Read MoreLooking back on the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re in awe of how much has been accomplished by grantee partners — in shaping program design, getting their communities ready to access funding, beginning to move projects from shovel worthy to shovel ready, and re-doubling efforts to stop oil and gas expansion that’s also being subsidized by the IRA.
Read MoreWe’re excited to introduce three new team members who have joined us this summer, seasoned leaders who are helping us expand and deepen our power building and climate and economic justice grantmaking and supporting our organizational growth and fundraising. We’re hiring one more senior program officer in the Atlantic Coast region to fill out the team.
Read MoreWe’re excited to welcome two new staff and share updates from Houston and our evolving strategy to support access to new federal funding for a community-driven transition to clean energy.
Read MoreWith the Inflation Reduction Act’s new climate funding programs rolling out at breakneck speed, funders and community groups alike are scrambling to understand the opportunity and what it will take to make good on the IRA’s promise of benefitting disadvantaged communities. We gathered grantee partners in Houston on February 3 to get started.
Read MoreIn honor of International Women’s Day, we spotlight some of the women leaders in the US South who are delivering clean energy and climate resilience in ways that build wealth and protect health in their communities; stopping the expansion of oil, gas, and other dirty energy industries in their backyards; and protecting democratic rights and holding government accountable.
Read MoreCommission Shift is one of a growing number of groups shining a light on powerful regulatory agencies that are captured by the industries they regulate, and leveraging people power to hold them accountable.
Read MoreOur fall 2022 grantmaking focuses on helping groups rise to both opportunities and challenges of the Inflation Reduction Act, and ensure that the promise of this historic climate legislation is realized in ways that move us closer to justice.
Read MoreAjulo Othow and other community leaders in North Carolina are making sure the state’s solar boom is a boon to communities that typically get left behind.
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