Announcing our Spring 2022 Grantee Partners
The Hive Fund’s Spring 2022 grants docket represents intensified support for organizations working year-round to increase civic and political engagement in the U.S. South—a region with outsized global warming pollution and erosion of rights, but also a legacy for galvanizing social progress. There is no road to climate progress or holding on to our democracy that does not go through the South.
Grantee partners led by women, people of color, and those on the frontlines are organizing, holding rallies and events, conducting trainings and actions, producing art and sharing stories, educating and mobilizing voters—all to boost participation at the polls, elevate justice to the top of decision-makers’ agendas, decrease the influence of dirty industries, and expand our imaginations about what’s possible, what we’re fighting for, and how we can win.
We’ve also made our first climate finance grants this cycle. Look for grantees with an *asterisk by their name.
georgia
Capital B is a first-of-its-kind, Black-women-led, local and national nonprofit news organization for Black audiences. We aim to combat misinformation that has run rampant as quality local news declines, whether that be coordinated political disinformation campaigns aimed at suppressing the Black vote or misinformation about Covid-19 that endangers lives.
Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a member-based community organizing collective that promotes community sustainability through cooperative economics. CMB utilizes direct action, liberatory mutual aid programs, sustainable alternative economic development models, and organizing as a means of enacting change.
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) is a statewide organization that organizes intergenerational Latinx-Immigrants. Its work centers on increasing grassroots communities’ participation for social justice through coalition building, intersectional work, grassroots community organizing campaigns and leadership trainings.
Building on a 50-year legacy of civil rights, civic engagement, and economic development work, the Southwest Georgia Project is exploring the opportunities to engage in energy democracy work with a growing coalition in Albany, while also supporting black farmers in learning about the opportunities and challenges that are arising as they lease land for and engage with renewable energy projects in the region.
Additional grants to current Georgia grantee partners:
Louisiana
The Descendants Project was founded to preserve and protect the health, land, and lives of the Black descendant community located in Louisiana’s River Parishes. Through advocacy, resources, engaging the descendant community, and creating strategies for a safe and sustainable economy, The Descendants Project utilizes an innovative approach that uplifts cultural and emotional enrichment for the community’s ultimate liberation.
Additional grants to current Louisiana grantee partners:
North carolina
Center for Progressive Reform works to prevent and repair climate-induced harm to disenfranchised communities, redress societal inequities, and ensure that all people can fully participate in and benefit from our transition to a carbon-free economy.
Grounded Possibilities exists to connect Black artists in North Carolina with the knowledge and resources necessary to do impactful and cultural-focused environmental justice work. The funding and support creates opportunities for Black artists to create work that shifts culture and engagement with environmental justice concerns and ideas.
The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network is a coalition of community organizations, individuals and supporters and staff who work with historically marginalized communities in the pursuit of environmental justice which necessarily includes climate, social and racial justice. We support communities impacted by environmental injustice in building and exercising power to determine the direction of their communities towards justice, equity and sustainability.
Siembra NC is a grassroots organization focused on defending our communities from ICE, abusive employers and landlords, and bad políticos. As a hub affiliate of Mijente, we are pro-Black, pro-indigena, pro-worker, pro-mujer, pro-lesbian gay, bi, trans and queer, pro-climate and pro-migrant because we hold all of those identities, and because our unity against shared oppressions is central to our vision for change.
Additional grants to current North Carolina grantee partners:
texas
The Clean Energy Fund of Texas Inc.* aims to reduce greenhouse gases and address equity by financing energy and water conservation projects, facilitating the deployment of more renewable energy, and investing in other decarbonization strategies.
Photo by Kelly West
Commission Shift is reforming oil and gas oversight in Texas, a global influence on the oil and gas industry. We are building public support to hold the Railroad Commission of Texas accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape.
East Harris County Empowerment Council (EHCEC)* exists to improve the quality of life through innovative, sustainable programs and services that empower men, women, and youth to achieve their full potential.
The work of Houston in Action is rooted in the belief that an organized and empowered community can bring about transformative change. We work for more powerful communities by supporting Black-led, Latinx-led, and AAPI organizing culture; re-imagining Democracy by and for BIPOC, women, low-income, LGBTQ and youth; and supporting new non-profit organizations.
All of Mi Familia Vota Education Fund’s (MFVEF) work is centered around racial justice and equity. Our mission is to unite the Latino community and its allies to promote social, environmental and economic justice through increased civic participation.
Photo by Winston O'Neal
MOVE (Mobilize, Organize, Vote, Empower) Texas is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building power in underrepresented youth communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy. Together, we are building a Texas that believes in young people and invests in their leadership.
Radical Registrars is a grassroots, Black woman led organization born out of the George Floyd/BLM protests of 2020. Radical Registrars seek to empower and educate our communities on whom laws are made for, their eligibility to vote and how issues they care about are directly affected by elections.
Additional grants to current Texas grantee partners:
southern region
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area designated to preserve, share and interpret the history, traditional cultural practices, heritage sites, and natural resources associated with Gullah Geechee people of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Corridor mounts climate change programs to educate about threats to the survival of Indigenous Gullah Geechee people, communities, cultures, and land.
in and beyond the south
Inclusiv's* mission is to help low- and moderate-income people and communities achieve financial independence through credit unions. Inclusiv’s Center for Resiliency and Clean Energy has built a network of community-based financial institutions that are scaling green lending solutions that address climate and energy justice in low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color.
Jobs to Move America works to transform public spending and corporate behavior using a comprehensive approach that is rooted in racial and economic justice and community organizing.
National Bankers Community Alliance* (NBCA) is the nonprofit arm of the National Bankers Association (NBA), the leading trade association and advocate for Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) whose membership includes Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and Women-owned and operated banks across the country. NBCA launched its Climate Lending Initiative to support MDIs with green financing and technical assistance for climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience efforts.