Announcing the Winter 2020 Hive Fund Grantee Partners
After spending many months meeting with leaders across Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas and Georgia and learning from our first round of grantmaking, the Hive Fund is excited to announce the Winter 2020 grantee partners. These organizations are protecting and expanding democracy; organizing and building political power; stopping the expansion of highly polluting oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities; shaping transportation planning with community-led visions for more equitable mobility; stopping dangerous pipelines; and building cleaner, more just and more sustainable futures.
Georgia
In addition to funding the new grantees below, we also deepened our support to existing grantees in Georgia who continue to lead civic engagement efforts.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is dedicated to protecting the rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast. The organization combats the long-standing harms of rampant voter suppression, racist state policies that have built a robust detention-to-deportation pipeline, and environmental racism through their comprehensive program. Their work falls into four categories: Policy Advocacy, Organizing & Civic Engagement, Impact Litigation, and Legal Services.
SOWEGA RISING COALITION is a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Southwest Georgia, comprised of member citizens and grassroots organizations which support their core initiatives: food justice, economic justice, rural health, criminal justice reform and public safety and historic and cultural preservation. The coalition fights against high utility rates by advocating for alternative energy, climate justice and environmental justice, and mobilizes people and resources to improve the well-being, quality of life and political power of marginalized Southwest Georgians.
Louisiana
Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) is a social justice philanthropic intermediary working to address the longstanding inequities that have shaped life outcomes for Louisianans. FFL’s Climate Justice Program is driven toward comprehensive, adaptive, and regenerative solutions for each sector of our lives touched by the climate crisis. Their climate strategy implements pathways for holistic action towards a just and vibrant future by building people power, advancing just climate policy, and cultivating new narratives.
The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy is a non-profit justice center with a mission to advance structural shifts toward climate justice and ecological equity in communities of color on the frontline of climate change. GCCLP is the regional anchor organization for the Gulf South for a Green New Deal initiative and national anchor for the Red, Black & Green New Deal initiative with the Movement for Black Lives.
The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice is a statewide civic engagement and base building table in Louisiana that is working to shift power back to the people, fight policies that hurt the state’s families, and increase voter participation by building support structures for community activism. They center those most impacted by past and current systemic inequities, and work for policy change, civic engagement, and political education on issues including democracy, economic opportunity, environmental justice and criminal justice.
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RISE St. James is a faith-based organization focused on protection of the people and environment of St. James Parish. Since 2018, they have built regional and national awareness of the environmental injustices caused by the petrochemical industry on their historic African American community and the land, air, and water that has sustained us for centuries. Their goal is to make St. James Parish inhospitable to the petrochemical expansion that threatens to exacerbate climate impacts already harming the region.
North Carolina
The Center for Energy Education (C4EE) is a nonprofit organization located in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and a center for renewable energy research, education, and workforce development for the eastern United States. Since 2015, the organization has grown to support communities where solar projects are located or being developed. The Center works closely with schools, public officials, and work-readiness organizations to engage residents with opportunities that solar development brings into their communities. The C4EE’s goal is to ensure that when solar development is introduced into a community, its residents are well educated and informed about solar technology and can take advantage of the local job opportunities made available.
The North Carolina Black Alliance is working toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with a progressive, grassroots networks on intersecting issues. These issues range from voting rights, gerrymandering, criminal justice reform, health and wellness, economic development to education. The Alliance is an intergovernmental network of African American legislators, county commissioners, school board members, and municipal elected officials centered by a commitment to ambitiously address broad issues of inequality and fairness. The Alliance collaborates with strategic partners to advance the work of those organizations and to enhance intentional collaboration with black constituencies.
The Red-Tailed Hawk Collective (the Collective) is a group of indigenous leaders who gained momentum fighting against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Collective, made up of members of four of North Carolina’s state-recognized tribes, is fighting for land sovereignty while working to push back against local, state and federal policies that disproportionately harm Indigenous communities.
Texas
The Campaign to Block New Markets for Oil & Gas, fiscally sponsored by the Sierra Club Foundation, centers coalition-building and community organizing to challenge proposed oil and gas infrastructure along the Gulf Coast. Led by Sierra Club's Rebekah Hinojosa, the campaign is building a racially and culturally diverse movement that is working to stop further fossil fuel build-out in a region already overburdened with pollution. The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe is a key partner, with aligned funding from Equation Campaign.
LINK Houston believes that transportation – how we get to where we need to go – should not be a barrier to accessing opportunities. For communities of color across Houston, a lack of equitable investments continues to perpetuate historic disadvantages, including environmental and climate impacts. LINK Houston is working to change that system by shaping transportation-related policies through data analysis and community engagement.
National
The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) is a solutions-based organization engaging women and feminists worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, direct action, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice. Their strategic focus is uplifting an intersectional lens with women-led solutions and an emphasis on BIPOC women leaders, while also collectively transforming and healing our relationship with each other and Nature.
funding partners
We’re thankful to be working in partnership will the allied funders below, who are providing more than $300,000 to these same groups and campaigns:
WE LEAD at Tides Foundation
Equation Campaign
Plastics Solutions Fund
Sapelo Foundation
Thank you also to our newest funding partner, MacArthur Foundation.