Welcoming the Spring 2021 Hive Fund Grantee Partners
A year after making our inaugural grants, the Hive Fund has deepened our relationships with grantee partners and other frontline advisors, strengthened our participatory approach to grant-making, and doubled our annual grants budget. We’re excited to announce 17 new grantee partners who are strengthening our multi-racial democracy, organizing to stop new oil and gas facilities, and shaping new clean and equitable economies. More than 80 percent of Hive Fund grantee partner organizations are led by Black, brown, or Indigenous women and serving and building power in communities of color.
Georgia
The Partnership for Southern Equity advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. Focusing on four key areas: energy, growth, health and opportunity, PSE’s main strategies-- community organizing, leadership development, coalition building, community engagement and leveraging data and research--have resulted in strong partnerships and successful policy initiatives across the south.
Women Engaged supports the power-building of Black women and young adults creating a world where compassionate, fact-based, equity-centered approaches are used to develop and implement public policy and actualize social transformation.
Louisiana
Alliance for Affordable Energy is the designated fiscal hub for Louisiana’s Gulf South for a Green New Deal formation of more than 80 organizations. Participating groups are working to develop a People’s Climate Plan, expanding on the work of the Governor’s Climate Task Force, and connecting communities around the state with a shared vision for a just transition away from the state’s historic extractive economies. Members are building a participatory model of funding and governance that puts people first.
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region through research, education, community and student engagement for policy change, as well as health and safety worker training for environmental careers.
VAYLA exists as an embodiment and commitment to activating tomorrow’s Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders. In order to fulfill that mission, VAYLA works with young people to address the issues facing our community using an intersectional AAPI lens. These issues include environmental and climate justice, reproductive justice, and civic engagement.
North Carolina
Blueprint North Carolina is a statewide partnership of 53 nonprofit organizations and countless network allies working together to ensure that all North Carolinians have a voice in our democracy and a full share of its benefits. The network is building the governing power of historically disenfranchised people through collective impact and racial equity that will be essential to achieving climate justice.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization focused on bringing together the Asian American community in North Carolina through civic engagement and political participation. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the country and in this state.
The North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC) works to galvanize a just transition to a regenerative economy that ensures all people and our planet thrive. NCCJC engages with impacted communities to build grassroots power, develop movement infrastructure, and align frontline struggles.
The Roanoke Center catalyzes, nurtures and supports sustainable economic and community development in Roanoke Electric Cooperative’s membership region across Northeastern North Carolina. The Roanoke Center created a model to deliver system benefits, member savings, resilience and community development benefits for its members living in persistently poor counties.
We Are Down Home is a grassroots, community-based organization that is committed to building power for working communities in North Carolina’s rural counties and small towns. We Are Down Home grows power by investing in leadership development, strategic campaigns, civic engagement and multiracial movement building across rural and urban areas.
Texas
The Coalition for Environment, Equity and Resilience (CEER) is a collaborative of 27 organizations working at the intersection of climate change, health, and equity, through values-based organizing and community-driven policy campaigns to achieve a more equitable, healthy and climate-resilient Houston region.
Southern Region
Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN) believes that local organizations are best positioned to bring about equitable and sustainable energy systems across the Southeast when they share a common vision and collaborate with a broad range of partners. The network aims to leverage its collective power to provide members with leadership development, training, funding and support rapid response mechanisms to environmental threats.
The Southern Power Fund is a collaborative initiative, anchored by Agitarte, Alternate ROOTS, Highlander Research and Education Center, The Ordinary People Society, Project South, People’s Advocacy Institute, The Smile Trust, and Southerners on New Ground, that resources people of color-led and multiracial organizations who support the vision and leadership of communities most directly impacted by generations of structural inequality in the South.
Image: The Urgency of Now by Karla Rosas and Fernando Lopez, created for ROOTS Week 2020, featuring C. Gypsi Lewis. Click here to read the artists statement.
In & Beyond the South
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and its project, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, bring high impact constitutional rights cases nationwide, advancing the free speech rights of movements for environmental, racial, and social justice and defending activists from police violence and suppression. They work in partnership with affected communities to create meaningful change and dismantle systems of repression.
Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law. IEN’s Indigenous Feminisms Initiative aims to support networks and circles of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit relatives who are building our collective power to heal and protect the wellbeing of our communities and our Earth Mother by reclaiming Indigenous knowledge and lifeways and defending our sacred lands and waters from extractive industries.
The St. Croix Foundation advocates for and mobilizes around a community vision rooted in environmental justice, placing a historically marginalized community in charge of decision-making around energy supply, environment, health, workforce, and community development.
The 19th is an independent nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, race, politics and policy that is majority women of color staff. The 19th will create a gender and climate beat to help provide those they serve – particularly women, women of color, and the LGBTQ+ community – with the information, resources and community they need to be equal participants in our democracy.