Climate Justice Organizing Fund

Bread & Roses Community Fund, with support from the William Penn Foundation, is launching a new three-year Climate Justice Organizing Fund. The fund will move money to community-led grassroots groups and leaders in the Philadelphia region. The two-track fund will support grassroots groups organizing to change the policies, practices, and processes that create and maintain climate inequities. It will also provide grants for community-based groups to strengthen their capacity to organize or develop a climate justice organizing strategy.

At its core, climate justice aims to advance:

• Equitable Processes: Ensure impacted communities have a pathway to provide meaningful input and leadership in decision-making about climate policies, solutions, and clean energy projects. Demanding that decision-makers partner with impacted communities in measurable and meaningful ways.
• Equitable Climate Benefits: Access to healthy air, clean water, climate mitigation tools, the green economy, climate project financing, and all clean energy technology and approaches that support human and environmental well-being.
• Systemic Accountability: Hold governments, corporations, and other institutions responsible for climate harm accountable. Redirect priorities from profit and exploitation to regeneration and care for people and the planet.

The Fund will make grants through a two-track funding approach.

1. Track One is designed to strengthen the foundational work necessary for effective climate organizing, ensuring that movements have the preparation and strategic alignment needed for long-term success. 
2. Track Two is designed to support grassroots, community-led organizations working in the climate justice space. It is intended for groups that have already developed a climate justice organizing strategy and need financial support to sustain, implement, or scale efforts. Unlike funding for planning or preparation as outlined in Track One, this funding track focuses explicitly on implementation.

Click here for more information about eligibility.  You can also view the virtual information session recorded February 20, 2025 here.