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Dear CJA Supporters,
We are writing to share [The Just Returns Project]([link removed]), a three-year research collaboration that highlights the gaps in climate philanthropy, while painting an in-depth picture of the deep impact of grassroots organizations across society. It is based on a comprehensive analysis of public grantmaking and investment data from the 50 most influential U.S. climate funders in 2020, along with interviews with grassroots organizations across the country.
Three years ago, we came together with our partners National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School to ask – how do we build the resource infrastructure around frontline community solutions? Why isn’t philanthropy invested at higher levels?
This developed into our research questions: (1) Where are philanthropy’s resources – investments and grants – going — and (2) how do we convey the multilayered impact of frontline community solutions?
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[The Just Returns Project report series]([link removed]) finds that only 3% of climate funding from 50 influential U.S. foundations goes to grassroots climate justice groups—despite strong evidence that these organizations are delivering the most impactful, community-driven responses to the climate crisis.
>>> We invite you to [examine and share]([link removed]) the three reports in the series.
- The first research brief, Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is: How to Make Your Investments Climate-Justice Aligned, illuminates the gap between foundations’ stated grantmaking missions and the outsized impact of their investments in propping up the fossil fuel industry. It provides recommendations to philanthropy on how to pivot their investment strategies to match their missions.
- The second brief, Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is: How to Make Your Grantmaking Climate Justice-Aligned, shows that climate grantmaking has disproportionately gone towards false solutions and Big Greens, despite the effective real solutions that grassroots organizations are implementing at a local and scalable level with fewer resources. It provides recommendations to philanthropy on how to match their grantmaking with real solutions to climate change.
- The third report, Voicing the Power of Climate Justice: Insights on the Impact and Sale of Grassroots Initiatives, shows the breadth and depth of grassroots achievements, which have impact across issue areas and sectors, confronting food systems, legacy pollution, economic equity, community development, social justice, and more, at the same time. More importantly, it quantifies the impact of grassroots climate solutions in a way that honors how grassroots want to qualify their impact.
[Read the reports here.]([link removed])
It’s high time for philanthropy to move critical resources into the hands of those building resilient, community-rooted climate justice solutions.
Warmly,
Climate Justice Alliance
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