To build long-term organizing power in six Florida geographies facing pivotal energy decisions, the project will mobilize residents to advance municipally-owned utilities as alternatives to proposed gas infrastructure projects. Taking advantage of key moments—such as lapsed utility contracts and new infrastructure proposals—the project builds local power with national implications that empower communities to pursue renewable, publicly controlled energy solutions that are responsive to and reflective of local needs.

In response to repeals and rollbacks to EPA policies, Boston University School of Public Health will work with a coalition of NGOs and other academic institutions to perform rapid response analyses of the public health impacts of these actions. This will provide robust evidence that can be used in responding to these repeals through the formal public comment period, public outreach, and potentially litigation.

Working to break down silos between labor and environmental justice groups in New York to foster stronger partnerships in local and statewide advocacy for green energy production. Through a series of convenings, the project will bring together labor and community stakeholders to identify barriers to collaboration and develop a shared vision for a clean energy economy.

Building bridges between housing justice and climate and environmental organizations in Virginia to advance more affordable climate-friendly housing. The project is launching a cohort program of leaders to learn from one another and build trust, with the long-term goal of coalescing about a dozen Virginia-based environment and housing justice organizations to create shared vision and policy principles.

More than ever, online discussions are fueling real-world harm. The project is developing and scaling a more organic online-to-offline narrative strategy for environmental and public health campaigns, building bridges that connect online non-political communities or communities harmed by current policy to offline communities advancing environmental and pro-democracy efforts. The resulting narrative playbook and narrative measurement framework will be shared with the broader environmental movement.

To win just clean energy implementation in Tennessee, Labor at the Table will coordinate across trade unions, central labor councils, and community-based organizations to expand the reach of union-backed Apprenticeship Readiness Programs and prepare low-income, disadvantaged community members to enter the clean energy construction workforce. The project includes a mobile program to reach rural communities in the state and pursuing new signatory contractors in the clean energy sector.

Building narrative power across race, class, and genders and creating an aligned echo chamber of messengers and narratives that directly demand climate justice by expanding who is seen as heroes in the story. The project will strengthen the climate communications capacity of a network of state power building organizations, largely in the Midwest and South, who message to their base and persuadables (the middle). This state-focused power building strategy is critical to achieving long-term climate justice goals, impacting what happens in other states and nationally.

Building across geography, 12 powerbuilding organizations across the West, Midwest, Appalachia, South, and Northeast will organize across race, gender, class, and political ideology to advance utility justice campaigns for 100% CARE in states: clean, affordable, reliable energy. The project will develop a shared training curriculum, model legislation, narrative, and a common repertoire of campaign tactics to build a grassroots base on a populist agenda to defend democracy, break down silos, and usher in a just energy transition.

Building power to ensure that equitable climate solutions reach frontline communities, defending wins like the Inflation Reduction Act and advancing bold state policies. The project is mobilizing tens of thousands of people, training climate justice leaders, and engaging new voters in innovative, community-rooted ways.

To create state and local solutions that can prevent additional harms and build toward a just future, the project will leverage the best available evidence and policy ideas to serve Environmental Justice communities’ needs. The Tishman Center will deploy its scientific, policy, and convening capacities to support co-designed solutions in three areas: mandatory reductions of power sector pollution; cumulative impacts permitting protections; and defense against climate “false solutions.” Together with national and state partners, it will also facilitate trans-local exchange across the Midwest and Northeast regions, as well as cross-sector collaboration with public health, academic, and philanthropic partners.

To protect and defend the Bureau of Land Management’s 245 million acres of public lands and waters, the project equips and activates the Friends Grassroots Network – a national movement of more than 80 local groups spanning 16 states – to champion their local public lands and engage with national efforts to safeguard threatened landscapes across the western United States. Photo by PC West Cliff Creative.

Building and expanding the influence of a cadre of voices from Albuquerque to Appalachia to protect communities, lands, waters, and ways of life from climate change and other environmental injustices. The project will grow the advocacy clout of participating leaders through public narrative and communications leadership trainings ranging from public speaking to enhancing their digital presence, coupled with influencer pathway development and visibility strategies. This new corps of leaders will grow movements by connecting with and inspiring others through storytelling that gives hope, voice, and belonging to people.

To build a just, inclusive climate future, the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform will deepen alignment between grassroots environmental justice and national environmental groups. The project will advance climate policy rooted in equity, build narrative power, and invest in community leadership. Through coordinated campaigns, regranting to frontline partners, and strategic engagement of 300+ co-signers across the U.S., the coalition will defend hard-won gains, push bold federal action, and expand a cross-sector infrastructure for long-term environmental justice movement success.

A diverse and growing national network of advocates, frontline groups and activists, and subject matter experts working on housing and community development policy, consumer protection, and environmental, climate, and racial justice. Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative aims to raise awareness on the role of insurers and their regulators – insurance commissioners – and to develop policy solutions that put people, not insurers, first.

A national hub for legal, technical, and strategic support, the project is protecting over $35 billion in EPA’s environmental justice, climate, and energy awards and helping EPA grantees safeguard critical work, access the funding they’ve earned, and stand strong in a battle for justice.

Bringing together a nonpartisan community of at least 50 local, state, and regional leaders and equipping them to advance transformational clean energy solutions for rural communities that help withstand and rebound from the increasingly severe impacts of climate change in the Southeast. The project will build the political infrastructure and local momentum needed to connect energy efficiency, clean energy, and resilience projects with local community and economic development priorities.

Implementing and growing a statewide, Indigenous-led alliance aimed at advancing a just green transition in Minnesota. The project will connect Native and non-Native climate justice advocacy communities, bridge insider (grasstops) & outsider (grassroots) advocacy approaches, and help all people understand the centrality of Indigenous sovereignty and the need for including and honoring Indigenous perspectives in the work for a just and sustainable future.

Building a public education campaign to shift the narrative on "critical mineral" mining and the "green energy" transition. The project will monitor mining companies and new permits, advocate for mining regulations in New Mexico that are protective of health and the environment, fight for cleanup and repair in mining-damaged communities, and aspire to set examples that raise the bar nationally and internationally of how to hold polluters accountable, and what is possible when communities organize behind powerful demands.

To develop, promote, and realize a shared vision for the responsible development of offshore wind energy on California’s Central Coast, the project will build a local network committed to shaping a new energy economy with justice for workers and communities. This new coalition will break down silos between labor and environmental justice advocates, define a community benefits agenda based on deep engagement of marginalized communities and workers, and identify job creation and high-road training partnership opportunities. The project will provide a national model for building broad and diverse constituencies for clean energy projects.

Anchored by a cross-sector coalition and community leaders, the initiative seeks to build durable and scalable movement infrastructure to reshape environmental systems and promote equity in historically marginalized communities throughout the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. The project, a model that can be replicated in other regions, is equipping local leaders with the strategies and relationships needed to drive systemic, community-rooted change.

Building bridges among climate/environmental justice, housing, restorative justice, community health workers, labor, local government and disaster response sectors and develop a network of Neighborhood Hubs within disadvantaged communities in Buffalo, New York. The project, a replicable community self-governance and resilience model, creates hyperlocal infrastructure that can be integrated into existing extreme emergency systems and activated to address root issues causing these communities to always be hit first and worst in any disaster.

A cohort of community organizations across rural America coming together to tell the true stories of rural people, cutting through the smokescreen of divide-and-conquer scarcity stories to make meaning of the crises these communities face, and bridge political, ideological, racial, and cultural divides—inviting more rural people ‘beyond the choir’ to join together for the solutions we all deserve.

CBAs present a unique opportunity to unite historically divided stakeholders in Savannah over shared concerns about environmental and socioeconomic justice amid rapid industrial expansion, and build the power to win enforceable environmental and workforce protections and meaningful community investmentsin a key port city. The project is building a CBA coalition that will bring together local and national labor, immigrant and faith-based groups, neighborhood associations, and environmental organizations.

Helping local community leaders, activists, and nonprofits counteract the fossil fuel industry's efforts to weaponize the law and stifle people's First Amendment rights, so that the environmental and climate justice movement can continue to grow during this time of closing civic space.

Building a cross-movement initiative that equips working people with the tools, education, and organizing infrastructure for people to thrive together in community. By partnering with labor unions, immigrant rights groups, environmental justice organizations, and racial justice advocates, the project delivers tailored popular education and train-the-trainer programs rooted in lived experience and grows a durable, inclusive, and strategic cadre of working people ready to mobilize.

Bridging across and between Wyoming’s long roads, political and cultural divides, and diverse communities to protect access to clean water, air, and lands,Tribal sovereignty, and wildlife. The project also promotes climate resilience and adaptation at the local, state, and national level, with a focus on Wyoming and the Wind River Indian Reservation.

To grow the power of multiracial, cross-class coalitions advancing climate across the U.S., the Blueprint Coalition Training Cohort Program provides advocates, organizers, and leaders with strategic training to strengthen their coalition cultures and deepen collective impact. Rooted in equity and collective care, this program equips climate coalitions with the capacity to collaborate across differences, deepen relational ties, and build durable political structures for long-term impact.

Supporting and developing authentic rural grassroots leadership for equitably eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and experimenting with practical ways to bridge the urban/rural divide. The project will seek opportunities for urban and rural environmental leaders to work together on campaigns that benefit both communities and build connectivity across the rural Midwest to support the organizations and communities that are working on climate, environmental justice, energy, and other environmental issues in rural areas.

To catalyze its members and allies to build a bigger activated base for climate justice, United Women in Faith will leverage its national network of women of faith by working in coalition with environmental justice, faith-based, and culture, education and social justice partners to build narrative power and shift perspectives about who is, and should be, in the fight for climate justice.

Bridging divides and strengthening democratic collaboration on Wisconsin’s environmental challenges. The project unites students, residents, and community groups from across the political and social spectrum, and creates methodologies and models for cultivating the next generation of civic leaders, building community, strengthening environmental movements, and shifting narratives around climate action from polarization to partnership.

A diverse national coalition of 300 organizations working to address nature loss and its impact on frontline communities while reshaping the conservation movement to center the leadership of historically marginalized voices.

Working to strengthen the relationship between local and county governments as well as local organizations, relevant stakeholders, frontline activists, and community members, share information to their network and shift the environmental landscape of this neglected, ecologically fragmented, and industry-dominated state.

A campaign in partnership with frontline communities to protect environmental justice by closing incinerators and ending subsidies for incineration. This project has expanded information-sharing, coordination, skill-sharing, communication, and advocacy infrastructure and increased the capacity of frontline, grassroots groups to leverage federal policy work in state and local contexts around the impacts of dirty energy.

Thwarting the expansion of oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure from the Permian Basin to the US Gulf and building a more powerful, resourced, and connected movement for a just transition. The project is strengthening strategic coordination to fight new oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure across the region.

Facilitating the adoption of clean energy and energy efficient technologies, while building trust with community leaders and strengthening the climate and energy movement in Alabama. The project will supoprt outreach and education for renewable energy programs, defend Solar for All, Community Change and New ERA grants to make sure those projects get off the ground, and conduct an economic development analysis of federal climate investments in Alabama to demonstrate economic benefits to government leaders.

An online network of over 17,500 of the country’s leading climate advocates, policymakers, academics, and activists that exists to facilitate interstate collaboration, increase coordination in the climate movement, and empower state actors working on state climate policy.

Mobilizing the largest and widest-reaching Latino-led and Latino-serving organizations to reap the benefits from Federal climate investments. The project distributes resources and technical assistance, develops culturally appealing and linguistically available educational and digital tools to access information and resources, distributes grant opportunities and builds matchmaking partnerships.

Promoting knowledge of, advocacy for, and active utilization of federal climate initiatives through online training, multi-city partnerships, cross-pollinating virtual convenings, and collaborations with key institutions of color for the BIPOC-led network of community solar developers, leading environmental justice groups, and progressive financiers.

Working with local governments in the region to increase their knowledge and understanding of how transportation electrification opportunities align with their needs and priorities; identifying technical assistance needs and resources; and developing strategies to ensure funding opportunities are accessed to directly benefit their communities.

Ensuring rural communities are not left out of funding opportunities for climate and resilience projects. The project provides communications, trainings, and other support to their network of over 35,000 to incentivize clean energy and reduce negative climate impacts.

Movement-building in disadvantaged Iowa communities to address climate resilience, environmental justice, and health equity during a time of backsliding. The project builds capacity among local leaders and community stakeholders to engage in democratic processes to create meaningful change, providing resources, conducting outreach, and developing and sharing educational resources to empower stakeholders to pursue climate resilience, environmental justice and health, and pollution reduction efforts.

Providing information, funding, and communications support to more than 100 network colleagues across a 12-state region

Creating state-level green industrial policy to support home retrofits, Mobilizing the IRA for Just Housing Decarbonization leverages its strong interdisciplinary network to support campaigns with cutting edge research and policy analysis in priority states.

Building the movement infrastructure needed to promote clean energy across Michigan and defend us from the many federal assaults on our environmental protections.

Providing detailed energy affordability data for advocacy efforts, regulatory planning, and climate investments across the country.

Promoting shared capacity and deep network building among key coalition partners, inclduing coordinating joint fundraising efforts, promoting a collaborative effort to keep Appalachian organizations afloat impacted by federal funding freeze, and better support regional offense / defense strategy for federal climate resources.

Working to strengthen the environmental justice movement infrastructure by catalyzing the civic leadership of a powerful yet undervalued constituency, young people. The project trains novice youth climate activists in policy and advocacy skills and plugs them into the environmental justice initiatives led by collaborators.

Supporting the transformation of the current environmental narratives in rural communities. The project trains and mentors community leaders in rural Washington to reclaim the rural story of our land, our resources, and our path to a stable future, and shares lessons and innovations with a broader community of practice statewide, regionally, and nationally.

Building capacity and collaboration among nursing, health organizational partners, and the environmental movement. The project is developing a ‘network of networks’ and leadership and advocacy trainings across 14 national nursing and academic institutions to scale impact on equitable climate action with more than 4.2 million nurses across the nation.

A coalition of organizations working together at the intersection of chemicals, climate, agriculture, health, justice, and the economy. The project is actively creating connective platforms, research projects, tools, subgrants and shared strategies across 150 organizations to advance priorities around climate, environmental, and pesticide policies.

Creating a path to a 100% clean energy economy in New York State, the world’s 11th largest economy. The project is growing the capacity of over 300 member organizations and communities by developing training curriculum, securing funding, and creating base-building infrastructure in service to the goals of a multi-sector climate, jobs, and justice coalition.

Increasing the ability of our partners to advance advocacy, litigation strategies, and policy initiatives for environmental justice campaigns in BIPOC, rural, and working-class communities

Puting young leaders of color at the forefront of climate action and justice in Texas. This project is building a pipeline of next-generation climate leaders through advocacy and organizing training, policy development, and communications and digital strategies to amplify their voices and mission.

Expanding a sustainable connection of Black-led denominational networks across the country in leading environmental advocacy efforts. The project engages a broad base of historically Black denominations, including over 1,000 pastors and congregations across the U.S., in uniting with the climate and environmental justice movements.

Organizing working class military veterans to advance climate and economic justice solutions. The project recruits and trains cohorts of veteran leaders in narrative building, leadership and grassroots organizing strategies to make meaningful connections between the climate crisis and other issue spaces (like jobs and infrastructure, foreign policy, racial justice, and immigration).

Creating an ecosystem of resilient, regenerative, and racially-justified food systems, by and for Black-owned food and agricultural organizations. The project is connecting BIPOC-led farming organizations to lift up their expertise, assets and brilliance, and connect them to the supportive infrastructure like innovative training and culturally relevant techniques to enhance the removal of greenhouse gases as well as reduce emissions.

Strengthening networks of farmworker women working toward reorienting our food, fiber, and energy systems to help heal the land and restore balance in our ecosystem. The project is strengthening and building leadership and advocacy capacity through sharing ancestral agricultural knowledge and practices, implementing trans-national policy goals, and securing equity for farmworkers and historically underserved BIPOC farmers across the country.

Working to end racially discriminatory environmental decision-making and raise awareness of climate issues within the Black community. This project coordinates and equips member organizations to be advocates of environmental justice through co-learning, jointly determining priorities, and network sharing.

Ensuring that local organizations and communities have the technology infrastructure to build connection, alignment and capacity towards achieving key objectives locally and nationally. The project installs tech hubs in BIPOC-led communities across the Great Lakes to fight causes of climate change and water insecurities that are currently affecting their youth, families, and communities.

Deepening solidarity, cooperation, and collective action among 55+ diverse organizations, activists, and 500,000+ online members across the country, while providing them with the tools, knowledge, and co-powerment to build power as leaders in the climate justice movement.

Providing capacity building, training, and advocacy resources to frontline communities and local environmental justice organizations to help transition away from oil and gas and other carbon emitting practices.