The $7 billion federal Solar for All program presents a transformational opportunity to lower energy bills, build resilience, and create job and entrepreneurship opportunities in parts of the US South that have seen decades of disinvestment. As awardees, including several Hive Fund grantee partners, have begun negotiating contracts with the Environmental Protection Agency and moving toward implementation, they have identified some common challenges in urgent need of philanthropic support.
Read MoreFrontline climate justice groups won a momentous victory in January when the US Department of Energy announced a pause on permit approvals for certain new liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects, a major new source of climate pollution. Now they are asking for support to cement their win.
Read MoreThe Hive Fund made our first round of healing justice and holistic security supplemental grants in 2021, following one-on-one conversations with grantees with our partner Ananse Consulting. In 2022 and 2023 we partnered with Ananse again to help us expand our healing justice and holistic security grantmaking and integrate it more systematically into our grantmaking practice as we develop an internal culture around it.
Read MoreAlong with our grantee partners, the Hive Fund is co-creating a strategic, place-plus grantmaking approach to support groups in leveraging funding from new federal climate programs to build and scale community-driven climate solutions.
Read MorePlace-based groups representing communities of color and working-class communities have powerful visions for implementing the Inflation Reduction Act and other new climate policies in ways that improve the lives of a broad swath of Americans, and are ready to provide the organizers, doers, builders, and connectors to make those visions come to life. Here are some key approaches foundations and donors can take to support these groups’ engagement, and ensure IRA’s promise of an equitable transition to clean energy is realized.
Read MoreOur Listening Tour with more than 60 grantee partners yielded insights that we are eager to share with fellow funders and others interested in moving toward climate, gender, and racial justice.
Read MoreThe Hive Fund awarded multi-year grants to ten Houston-based organizations, with a focus on Northeast Houston. Increased support to this constellation of stellar organizations will bolster efforts to leverage public and private funding for community-based climate justice projects, win policy changes at local and state levels, and move hearts and imaginations away from fossil-dependent economic development, helping transition this icon of oil and injustice to an exemplar of an equitable and clean energy future.
Read MoreDuring the recent COP summit in Glasgow, 11 governments committed to end new oil and gas extraction and plan for a just, equitable, and managed phase-out of all existing oil and gas production. But these ground-breaking goals cannot be achieved without increased support for groups on the frontlines in the Gulf South.
Read MoreSupporting healing justice and holistic security practices does not require funders to create and impose something new. It is a call to honor and resource the practices and tools communities have always used and organizations may already be using to care for themselves and survive.
Read MoreExhaustion and burnout has emerged as a common theme across grantee partners jumping from crisis to crisis in this last tumultuous year. Funders often unwittingly add additional burdens in our attempts to support groups on the frontlines of disparity. We’re sharing insights from our Healing Justice and Holistic Security inquiry that can help us reduce and relieve those burdens and help our grantee-partners build rest and healing into their work ahead.
Read MoreAnanse Consulting’s Principal and Founder, Omisade Burney-Scott, and Emanuel Brown sat down with Melanie Allen to talk about the growing field of Healing Justice and how important it is to movement work.
Read MoreWe asked some of the Hive Fund’s grantee partners to share wins, lessons learned and opportunities to scale their organizing and advocacy work for climate, gender and racial justice in 2021 and beyond.
Read MoreAs movements for Black lives and racial justice continue to gain momentum, many funders have reached out to the Hive Fund for help deepening their understanding of the connection between racial, gender, and climate justice, and for advice on how to shift their philanthropic practices and grant-dollars to center equity.
Read MoreWelcome to the Learning Lab, where we’ll be sharing insights, ideas, challenges and learnings from our grantee and funder communities to help philanthropy be a better partner in the fight for climate and gender justice.
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