Announcing New Houston Grantee Partners
We’re excited to announce the award of multi-year grants to ten organizations in Houston working to meet community-identified needs of weatherized and energy-efficient housing, affordable renewable energy access, and clean and equitable mobility.
New Houston Grantee Partners
Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University
Houston Climate Justice Museum and Cultural Center
Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council
*Additional funding for current grantee partners to support work in NE Houston
The Greater Houston area is the fifth largest metro economy in the US, and yet because of pervasive oil, gas, and petrochemical pollution, its toxic air emissions are larger than those of the top four metro economies combined. Communities on the eastern side of the city have disproportionately borne the brunt of polluting industries, as well as redlining, disinvestment, floods, and storms. Leaders from these communities are putting forward a vision for transitioning this icon of oil and injustice to an exemplar of an equitable and clean energy future.
NE Houston Redevelopment Council engages the community in climate justice and resiliency efforts, including transit improvements, clean energy, flood mitigation and more.
Increased support for this constellation of stellar organizations in Houston’s northeast quadrant builds on several years of Hive Fund grantmaking in Texas, the US’s largest climate polluter. These grants will bolster efforts to leverage public and private funding for community-based climate justice projects, win policy changes at local and state levels, and move hearts and imaginations away from fossil-dependent economic development. Seizing on this moment of public momentum, political will, and large-scale federal investment to achieve climate justice in Houston can send ripples throughout the United States and the globe.
Big thank you to our Houston advisory body and the 50+ Houston based groups who offered insights and wisdom to shape our grant strategy. Many of these groups are continuing to work together, with Hive Fund support, to collectively access new federal funding over the next months and years.