In our 2024 Impact Report, we highlight some of the successes grantee partners have achieved in the past year, including nearly $10B in federal funding accessed for transformational climate and resilience projects, progress slowing the expansion of dirty energy, and wins for democracy.
Read MoreGroundwork laid and lessons learned through Atlanta's community-driven weatherization program will help ensure federal climate investments lower energy costs and spur economic opportunity in under-resourced communities.
Read MoreFrontline leaders along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana are cultivating a powerful trans-Atlantic collaboration that is using political, social, and economic pressure to slow and stop the expansion of US gas exports.
Read MoreWe're excited to welcome Josh McClenney as our new Atlantic Coast Program Officer.
Read MoreAs Georgia Conservation Voters has started canvassing in Atlanta for the state’s new Solar for All program, they are finding some big trust barriers that will take deep investment in outreach, education, and culturally-rooted marketing to overcome.
Read MoreThis spring we’re excited to announce over $18 million in multiyear grants to more than 50 groups — our largest docket ever.
Read MoreThe EPA’s Solar for All program awarded over $1 billion to projects that include Hive Fund grantee partners in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina. These awards are the result of years of partnership-building, community organizing, and collaborative planning that the Hive Fund is proud to have supported.
Read MoreThis month we are both welcoming Jada Sherman as our new program officer for climate and economic justice in the Atlantic Coast region, and saying goodbye to Jill Cartwright, our first Atlantic Coast program officer who was instrumental in shaping our grantmaking in the region.
Read MoreWe join our partners in celebrating the historic announcement last week of groups selected to administer $20 billion in funding for cleaner energy and pollution reduction projects through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), including seven Hive Fund grantee partners who individually and as part of broader coalitions were awarded $8 billion.
Read MoreWomen of color leaders across the US South are bringing in wins big and small that propel us toward cleaner energy, build health and wealth in disinvested communities, and protect democratic rights.
Read MoreIn honor of Valentine’s Day, we invited our staff and advisors to share their love and gratitude for the tireless leaders working for climate, racial, and gender justice. We made some templates so you can too.
Read MorePresident Biden announced that his Administration will “heed the calls of young people and frontline communities who are using their voices to demand action from those with the power to act” and will pause review of liquified natural gas export permits to “take a hard look at the impact of LNG exports on energy costs, America’s energy security, and our environment.” This is a momentous victory for all the frontline leaders who have been courageously challenging the expansion of these mammoth polluting facilities for many years.
Read MoreThis fall we're moving resources to civic engagement groups working in ever stronger coalitions to engage voters and protect democracy; strengthening disinvested communities’ capacity to compete for federal funding for clean energy and resilience projects; and supporting groups pushing back against carbon capture and sequestration and biofuels projects that threaten the health of their communities.
Read MoreWe caught up with Ashley Shelton, leader of one of the Louisiana’s most powerful civic engagement tables, in the run-up to the state’s general election to talk about ways they are using culture and joy to galvanize voters in the face of increasing voter suppression and intimidation, efforts to restrict public input, criminalization of protest, and other attacks on democracy.
Read MoreFind stories, insights, and funding opportunities from grantee partners’ work toward climate, racial, and gender justice in our 2023 Impact Report.
Read MoreRoanoke Cooperative, a rural electric coop (REC), has emerged as a regional leader in strategies to reduce energy use and build a cleaner grid while lowering costs for their member owners. Its work is demonstrating how, with support to innovate, pilot, and scale, RECs can serve as anchors for energy transformation in rural areas.
Read MoreOpposition to planned desalination plants that would provide water for a massive fossil fuel processing and export buildout in Corpus Christi, Texas has brought together community and environmental groups in a powerful coalition that is taking on these industries and racking up important wins.
Read MoreLooking back on the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re in awe of how much has been accomplished by grantee partners — in shaping program design, getting their communities ready to access funding, beginning to move projects from shovel worthy to shovel ready, and re-doubling efforts to stop oil and gas expansion that’s also being subsidized by the IRA.
Read MoreWe’re excited to introduce three new team members who have joined us this summer, seasoned leaders who are helping us expand and deepen our power building and climate and economic justice grantmaking and supporting our organizational growth and fundraising. We’re hiring one more senior program officer in the Atlantic Coast region to fill out the team.
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