Welcoming the Winter 2021 Hive Fund Grantee Partners
We’re thrilled to welcome 16 new grantee partners this winter. Their work includes strengthening civic engagement; building and expanding campaigns to stop new oil and gas facilities; holding Public Services Commissions accountable to people, not polluters; and building regenerative, clean, and equitable economies.
Georgia
The Black Male Voter Project Education Fund is the first and only national organization with a singular focus on increasing Black men’s participation in civic life. Their Black Male Engagement Program Additory Approach ©️ is a culturally competent approach to engaging Black men that have been made invisible by America’s political system.
Louisiana
Founded in 1995, Healthy Gulf’s mission is to collaborate with and serve communities who love the Gulf of Mexico by providing research, communications and coalition-building tools. Healthy Gulf supports communities facing the greatest threats of environmental injustice as they advocate for clean air and water, coastal restoration, sustainable fisheries and a just transition.
North Carolina
A Better Chance A Better Community (ABC2) is a 501c3 nonprofit and community organization that provides unique cultural opportunities to equip young people with the necessary life skills to be game-changers in their communities. The program promotes positive values, healthy habits, and education through community development, culture, and awareness.
Texas
The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas preserves, maintains, protects, and offers services that will better tribal communities’ ability to overcome the erasure of the Original People of Texas. The tribe partners with regional organizations working to stop proposed new oil and gas facilities in South Texas, and works to regain control of tribal lands near the proposed border wall.
Based in Corpus Christi, Chispa Texas works to invigorate the environmental movement with new Latinx leaders, increase voter participation, and hold elected officials accountable, all in order to improve the quality of life of communities.
The Organizers Institute South and West Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) strengthens community-based organizing and supports organizers in the South & Western US. Texas IAF affiliates are working with allies in the environmental, education, and labor movements to shape tax policy in a way that bolsters the state budget and maintains good jobs.
The South Texas Human Rights Center (STHRC) responds to the humanitarian crises of migration and migrant death across South Texas and the border region. Since 1995, climate change and free trade agreements have become dual drivers of migration crises. STHRC participates in local organizing to end oil and gas industrial expansion and fossil fuel extraction across the South Texas region, with a focus on building political power and campaigning alongside groups working for climate justice.
Southern Region
Advancing Equity and Opportunity is a regional organizing platform that sustains engagement through collaboration, while also advancing the core campaign work of individual organizations. The AEO Collaborative works across eleven states in the South - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Clean Energy Works accelerates inclusive utility investments to open the clean energy economy to all. Inclusive utility investments overcome the barriers of upfront costs of clean energy upgrades to create jobs, cut pollution, and lower energy bills for everyone. The organization centers racial equity, while accelerating progress at the speed and scale required to meet climate goals.
The New Alpha Community Development Corporation (CDC) and the Whitney M. Slater Foundation empower low- and middle-income communities with environmental health and community economic development issues in South Carolina and beyond. The organizations work to break socioeconomic barriers, and to address water, air, land, and healthcare issues that affect vulnerable communities today.
One Voice is a fifteen-year-old social justice organization working to create thriving communities by building progressive leadership in Mississippi. The organization accomplishes this through training and community organizing that puts the voices of traditionally marginalized communities first.
North Carolina-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) works to challenge barriers to voting access and efforts to gerrymander across 10 Southern states — accounting for over 56.5 million of the more than 168 million people registered to vote in the United States. SCSJ works to challenge state voter suppression laws and tactics and oppose unconstitutional Congressional, legislative, and local gerrymanders.
We Make the Future (WMTF) aids state and national groups in building alignment and amplifying empirically-based narratives that addresses race and class within their particular issue lens. WMTF offers specialized support to a growing cohort of climate justice organizations across Texas and the US South within this broader narrative work.
In & Beyond the South
Bank for Good creates, disseminates and analyzes themes and content that most propel audiences to shift their personal funds to financial institutions that are environmentally friendly and actively anti-racist. Bank For Good engages its large partner base to engage activists and consumers in financial institution switching behavior and banking education.
The Fund for Frontline Power is an autonomous fund fully governed by grassroots leaders, supporting frontline-led climate solutions toward a multiplicity of Just Transitions. The Fund is a deconstructing and reconstructing experiment in how dollars flow - an exercise in collective self-governance of capital where grassroots leaders decide what grassroots-led climate solutions are funded.
Institute for Leadership Reimagined will create a safe, joyful, and generative space for social justice leaders from diverse movements to be in community with each other, share strategies, and deepen their liberatory leadership practices in service to our social justice movements.