We seek to build the capacity of grassroots environmental and climate justice groups to advance their communities’ needs.
Grassroots organizations are critical to building powerful environmental and climate justice movements. The Fund to Build Grassroots Power grants to grassroots organizations that are advancing environmental and climate justice within the United States.
In 2018, The JPB Foundation established the Fund to Build Grassroots Power, a project of the Windward Fund, to help accelerate a just transition from an extractive to a regenerative economy by strengthening, growing, and supporting four national networks of grassroots environmental justice organizations: the Climate Justice Alliance, the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum (coordinated by WE ACT for Environmental Justice), the People’s Action Institute, and PowerSwitch Action (formerly Partnership for Working Families). These networks play a critical role in strengthening and connecting grassroots organizations to advance the environmental and climate justice movements. The fund makes grants to the members and affiliates of these networks to help those organizations build their capacity and power.
