Safe & Sustainable
Future Impact Collective
We believe a safe and sustainable future includes the right to clean air, water, land, food, environmental justice, and gender equality. Recognizing the centrality and intersection of women’s rights and environmental justice, we share a commitment to supporting women’s powerful leadership, in particular, Black and Indigenous women. In 2021, we signed the Climate Funders Justice Pledge, which challenges funders to give at least 30% of their climate funding to the BIPOC-led, power-building groups that have been most successful in fighting the climate crisis. We are committed to supporting BIPOC climate leadership worldwide, with many of our grantees receiving renewal grants, especially those who attend the UN Climate Conference or COP each year. Over the past three years, we’ve expanded our funding from a focus on Puerto Rico and US-based efforts to solutions in the Global South, knowing that climate disasters most heavily impact countries in the Global South.
Growing Movements in the U.S. and Abroad
Funding a Just Transition
The climate justice movement is working to create a new center of gravity by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Safe & Sustainable is organizing to build a Just Transition, which means we move away from extractive systems of production, consumption, and political oppression, and toward resilient, regenerative, and equitable economies.
GRANTEE SPOTLIGHTS
Photo Credit: Breahna Crosslin/GCCLP
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy provides free legal services for Gulf Coast residents in the wake of disasters, organizes community members, and helps people understand their human rights and how to protect them. As climate change bears down on the region, they are ensuring that disaster recovery is rooted in community organizing. Our grant helped them build a framework between local and national partners, advocate against extractive economies and bailouts for corporations, and report on climate justice issues.
Photo Credit: Food for All, Jaclyn Fawn Mendez
New Economy Coalition for Black Solidarity Economy Fund
Acknowledging that Black communities have been systematically denied access in the realm of funding, leadership, and capacity-building, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund distributes resources to Black-led climate justice organizations throughout the country in a participatory grantmaking process led by Black organizers. Our funding supported these redistribution efforts to help build a solidarity economy and work towards a Just Transition.
See our full list of 2021 grantees here.