Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation Grant to Hive Fund Supports Climate Justice Work Led by Women, People of Color, and Those on the Front Lines

The Hive Fund celebrates its inclusion as one of 18 organizations receiving a Climate Justice Grant from the Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) and #StartSmall, Jack Dorsey’s philanthropic initiative. The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice is a specialized re-granting intermediary that raises funds and makes grants to groups that have historically lacked access to funding and are addressing intersecting climate, gender, and racial justice crises in the U.S.  

CLF was founded in 2012 by Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty in honor of her grandparents Clara and Lionel Braithwaite, and is working in partnership with #StartSmall, Jack Dorsey’s philanthropic initiative, to support and fund ground-making climate resilience and justice projects in the U.S. and the Caribbean. This round of grants directly supports entities focused on and led by women, youth, Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and people of color working on the front lines of the climate justice movement.  

We welcome and thank these new partners for their support of the Hive Fund’s mission: continuing to move money equitably, and fund climate, gender, and racial justice work that is shaped, developed, and led by those closest to these intersecting problems. Many Black, Brown, AAPI and Indigenous women and their organizations are skilled, sophisticated, and visionary campaigners for justice, with critical expertise that makes them among the most successful champions of climate action. Their organizations work by multi-solving: building civic power and addressing many problems affecting their communities at once. Building the social cohesion, political will, and collective action necessary for climate progress requires urgently and significantly increasing philanthropic support to these groups. We applaud CLF for their commitment to this critical work.