Climate Justice Movement Support Grant
In context
This call is open to non-profits, registered charities and community groups and 2 others. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
This grant supports leaders, organizations, and network infrastructure advancing the climate justice movement, combining climate action with equity and advocacy. Eligible applicants include nonprofits, advocacy groups, and community-based organizations working at the intersection of climate and social justice.
About this grant
The Kresge Foundation's Environment Program helps cities combat and adapt to climate change while advancing racial and economic justice. The program holds that cities should limit climate change and prepare for its effects at the same time, and it focuses on ensuring that community voices, particularly those of lower-income residents and communities of color who bear the greatest harm from climate pollution and extreme weather, lead climate decisions from city halls to state capitals and Washington, D.C. The program's investments fall into two categories: Field Building, which supports leaders and organizations whose work is critical to addressing climate change while advancing racial and economic justice, and Transforming Urban Systems, which accelerates equitable climate action by transforming urban energy, health and water systems. The program's aims include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preparing for unavoidable climate effects, and advancing social cohesion and equity. The Climate Justice Movement Support strategy specifically works to support leaders, organizations, and the network infrastructure that advance the climate justice movement. It sits alongside related strategies and initiatives, including Public Sector Leadership Support, Community Development Climate Finance Ecosystem, Climate Change, Health and Equity, Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems, and Equitable and Just Energy Transition. The program does not accept unsolicited proposals. Grant opportunities are posted on the Current Funding Opportunities page when available, so applicants must wait for a listed opportunity before applying.
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Eligibility
The Environment Program does not accept unsolicited proposals, so eligibility is tied to specific funding opportunities posted on the Current Funding Opportunities page when they are available. The page does not state general organisation types, stage, or prior-recipient rules for this strategy. The Kresge Foundation is a national foundation with an urban focus on American cities, so applicants are expected to work in U.S. urban contexts, but the page does not set out formal geographic eligibility in detail.
Key requirements
- ✓Focus on climate justice and equity outcomes
- ✓Demonstrated leadership or organizational capacity in climate advocacy or community organizing
- ✓Contribution to network infrastructure supporting the broader climate justice movement
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Climate Justice Movement Support?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; nonprofit, charity, community-group, social-enterprise, indigenous-community. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
Relevant sectors
About this sector
Environmental justice funding supports communities most exposed to pollution and climate harm, with an emphasis on local leadership. It is offered by public programmes and foundations, often as grants to community organisations and partnerships. Calls typically ask how residents are involved in decisions and how benefits stay in the community.
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