Gidimt’en is one of five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, based in British Columbia, Canada. The clan is fighting the expansion of the Coastal GasLink, a fracked gas pipeline now endangering the pristine territory and waters of the Wet’suwet’en Peoples, without the consent of the Hereditary Chiefs. This pipeline is being financed by the Royal Bank of Canada and Gidimt’en is leading a climate finance campaign to challenge RBC and working to strip the Coastal GasLink of its social license to operate.

Laudato Si’ Movement is a global movement with hundreds of thousands of christians and collectives of organizations, religious congregations, parish and diocese groups, universities and NGOs engaged in activism to inspire and mobilize the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice. They aim to reframe the narrative on climate change from a left-right, political issue to a moral, ethical and religious imperative. They plan to immediately start raising the call for an end to fossil fuel expansion in the US, focusing on organizing in Texas and New Mexico.

A leader in the climate and racial justice fights, Hip Hop Caucus seeks to use advocacy and public and stakeholder pressure to drive divest-invest strategies wherein climate finance and racial equity finance are one goal.

ACRE is a campaign hub for organizations working at the intersection of racial justice and corporate accountability, supporting grassroots environmental justice groups with the analysis, research, and national structure they need to fuel their fight. 

A coalition of over 130 organizations, STMP is holding the financial backers of climate chaos accountable. Through direct action, consciousness raising, and advocacy, they’re targeting the likes of Chase and Liberty Mutual to stop dangerous fossil fuel projects we can’t afford.

Mazaska Talks (“Money Talks” in Lakota) is an all-indigenous organization focused on fossil fuel divestment in the Pacific Northwest and reinvestment in the local community. Their leadership and activism have contributed to major wins like the King County Moratorium on fossil fuel expansion, a corporate tax to fund Green New Deal policies in Seattle, and the protection of Licton Springs, the last intact sacred site in the region.

The Giniw Collective is an indigenous, women-led frontline resistance group founded by Tara Houska. They’re working to fight Line 3 in the Tar Sands while preserving their traditional culture and training the next generation to protect their land and practices.

Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) is an interstate coalition representing individuals and groups from counties in Virginia and West Virginia dedicated to protecting the water, local ecology, heritage, land rights, human rights of individuals, communities and regions from harms caused by the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. They’re working to stop the disastrous Mountain Valley Pipeline and working with affected communities along the route to make their voices heard.

CORA comprises the five tribes with legal rights under the 1836 treaty including the Bay Mills Indian Community, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The are a nonprofit organization with representation from the five tribes, with a governing board that oversees the monitoring, maintaining and enforcement of their treaty rights in the great lakes, including where Line 5 passes.

Floodlight is a nonprofit environmental news collaborative that partners with local journalists and the Guardian to co-publish investigations about the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action.

Guardian.org, is an independent nonprofit with the mission to advance and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of our time through the support of independent journalism and journalistic projects at the Guardian.

Native Roots Radio is one part of a larger network of Indigenous communicators, artists and organizers that fights for a new form of democracy that upholds Treaty responsibilities and acts in deep partnership with people on the margins of our society.

Drilled, a podcast from Critical Frequency, investigates fossil fuel propaganda and traces its impact down to the frontlines. The next season will focus on the history of the shale bubble and its impact on the country, tracing the growth of the industry through shady financing and lobbying efforts, the popping of the bubble, and its painful aftermaths.

Fossil Free Media is a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels
and solve the climate emergency. They do this by providing direct communications support for
organizations and coalitions, developing movement resources, and running
hard-hitting campaigns that expose industry propaganda and shift public opinion.

Inequality Media is focused on shifting public opinion around wealth inequality. This grant supported an explainer video on the need to keep oil and gas in the ground.

Appalachian Mountain Advocates is a non-profit public interest law and policy organization dedicated to fighting for clean water and a clean energy future. We use law and science to protect our region’s people, land, forests, air and water. Our pipeline litigation has, thus far, successfully stalled the MVP indefinitely and added billions in costs. Recent filings and statements indicate the MVP is on precarious financial footing — we hope our work over the next year will force the builder to fully abandon the project.

Akiing, the Anishinaabe word for “the land to which the people belong” is a regional integrated community development initiative, aimed at restoring an culturally based Anishinaabe economy focused on food, energy, and value added production. Akiing is intended to restore health and well being economic opportunities for Anishinaabe people in the Great Lakes region, through the promotion of education and outreach on sustainable development, research, pilot projects and regional collaboration on economic development, cultural events , research and policy work for tribal nations. Akiing is home to the Rights of Nature program, which Equation Campaign most recently supported with a grant for legal support for tribal water protectors.

Lone Star Legal Aid protects and advances the civil legal rights of low-income Texans by providing advocacy, legal representation, and community education that ensure equal access to justice. It is the third largest provider of free legal services in the country, serving over 76 counties in Texas ranging from Houston to the Gulf Coast. Lone Star Legal Aid designed its Environmental Justice Project to address a multitude of environmental justice issues in East Texas and along the Texas Gulf Coast, including the ever-increasing number of expansion projects for existing oil and gas facilities, proposed new facilities for LNG exports, etc. that disproportionately burden low-income communities.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. In the fight for climate justice, CCR works to defend environmental activists and water protectors who are protesting as well as journalists who are seeking to document and report on environmentally harmful industrialization in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley — particularly new facilities proposed by petrochemical companies and other companies posing environmental hazards.

The mission of the Campaign to Free Jessica Reznicek is to lessen the amount of time that Jessica Reznicek has to spend in prison and spread awareness about her case. One main objective to lessen her prison sentence is to get the terrorism enhancement dropped. The team plans to pursue legal angles; educate the public about her case and those it relates to; build alliances with relevant organizations; and organize strategic actions to achieve these goals. As part of these efforts we will educate the public about the sweeping global trend of governments to criminalize nonviolent climate protest.

The Climate Litigation Accelerator (CLX) based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law – is a global collaborative hub that nourishes, catalyzes, and disseminates the ideas, tools, strategies, and partnerships needed to secure urgent and ambitious action on the climate emergency. CLX is developing its Youth Legal Defense Network which will match youth climate advocates from around the world with regionally based lawyers that can provide legal defense services. To lay the groundwork for this network, CLX also plans to have a year-long youth fellowship. 

Appalachians Against Pipelines is a frontline organization defending Appalachia from the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and more by empowering communities to organize and take action against hazardous projects. They formed in 2018 when they took nonviolent direct action to obstruct construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL’s staff of international attorneys provide legal counsel and advocacy, policy research and capacity building in the areas of biodiversity, chemicals, climate change, human rights and the environment, international financial institutions, law and communities, plastic, and trade and sustainable development. CIEL has stepped as a leader to develop a national strategy to fight CCS while connecting to local campaigns around the country.

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), founded in 2020 by a group of Yale Law students, is an organization that scores law firms based on their environmental activities. LSCA aims to revoke the social license of the legal industry’s role in exacerbating global climate change. LSCA created the Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard and, since the Scorecard’s publication in October 2020, Law Students for Climate Accountability has grown into a movement—across law schools in the United States and beyond.

The Bad River Band (BRB) of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin is fighting the 49 miles of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline passing through their reservation. They filed a federal trespass lawsuit against Enbridge in hopes of shutting down the pipeline.

Breach Collective partners with communities on the front lines of the climate crisis to advance justice through locally-driven campaigns rooted in the power of grassroots organizing, legal advocacy, and human stories.

Climate Defense Project fills a gap in the legal landscape by supporting front-line activists (including those on Line 3 and the Mountain Valley Pipeline), advancing innovative arguments, and connecting attorneys, experts, and community members.  CDP’s three co-founders are graduates of Harvard Law School, where they brought the first fossil fuel divestment lawsuit, Harvard Climate Justice Coalition v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.  Since graduating, they have continued to fight for a stable climate for present and future generations.

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy works in the courts, at the legislature, and with public agencies to enact, strengthen, and enforce smart environmental law. Equation Campaign’s grant supports their legal advocacy with frontline groups opposing Line 3. 

Texas lawyers for Texas communities, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) serves the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts. They use legal advocacy and litigation to protect and advance the civil rights of everyone in Texas, particularly the state’s most vulnerable populations, and to effect positive and lasting change to law and policy.

Friends of the Headwaters is a local citizen’s group organized for the purpose of protecting the land and water that would be damaged by Line 3: Itasca State Park, the Mississippi River, clean lakes and trout streams, the aquifer for drinking water, forests, and wildlife.

Built out of the No DAPL protests, Water Protector Legal Collective provides legal support, advocacy, and knowledge sharing for Indigenous centered and guided environmental and climate justice movements.

The Thurgood Marshall Center for Civil Rights at Howard Law School works to help build a world where civil rights, human rights, freedom, and equal justice under law flourishes for all people who have historically suffered oppression or subordination on the grounds of difference.

The Just Transition Movement Law Initiative is a new initiative being led by the NAACP Environmental Justice Program and a national network of community-based lawyers to connect and develop leadership among community-based lawyers working in environmental justice and collectively build toward a legal framework for a just transition. 

Better Future Project works to build grassroots movements beyond oil, coal, and gas, with particular expertise on supporting divestment campaigns on campuses. 

The movements for racial, environmental and social justice are making the change society urgently needs and that our lives depend on, and the right to protest is under threat. The Center for Protest Law protects democracy by protecting protest and enforcing constitutional rights, in the courts and in the streets.

Greenpeace Fund Inc. continues the vital work of Greenpeace by increasing public awareness through research and education. We are the leading independent environmental organization in the world, and accept no money from governments or corporations.

Following the Quaker tradition which inspired our founding, Greenpeace “bears witness” to environmental destruction, moving from a belief that, as citizens in an interconnected global community, we have a moral obligation to take action against the injustices visited on the Earth in a peaceful, non-violent manner. We challenge the systems of influence and privilege that destroy the environment and place disproportionate burdens on the economically disadvantaged and the vulnerable.

Greenpeace does this by investigating, documenting and exposing abuses of power and by championing solutions.

Artivism Virginia is creating a supported connection between Virginia artists & activists working for environmental justice with strategy, messaging, event & campaign production, music, spoken word, visual design, sound, videography & photography.

Wild Virginia is a grassroots non-profit organization that protects Virginia’s wild lands and waters through advocacy, education, and influence. For more than twenty years, Wild Virginia has strongly advocated environmental protections and empowered citizens to become active in the decision-making processes that affect our wild lands’ future. The organization’s three central programs are: 1) water and energy, 2) outings and education, and 3) habitat connectivity. For seven years, Wild Virginia has opposed dangerous natural gas pipelines that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia, threatening sensitive and valuable natural areas and communities. Wild Virginia helped lead effective opposition against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) still faces multiple legal and regulatory hurdles that could prevent its completion. MVP has already harmed waters and people in a path across southwest Virginia, and Wild Virginia intends to prevent further damage.

The Tiny House Warriors is a group of women, families, and Indigenous land defenders
from the Secwepemc Nation and beyond whose mission is to defend and reclaim our lands in
the face of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (TMX) through interior British
Columbia. Tiny House Warriors is a mission to stop the Alberta Tar Sands infrastructure including the 1152km Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, pumping stations, terminal stations, tankers and refineries that threaten the existence of Indigenous Peoples, culture and territorial land base.

Future Economy Collective is a community-led, volunteer-run 501c3 on Tutela land in so-called Southwest Virginia. We strive to build community strength and support grassroots organizing to model the world we want to live in, by offering alternative forms of collaboration; collective growth, education, and liberation; skill-sharing; and mutual aid. We are currently working to provide support for frontline community organizers as well as mutual aid projects throughout the New River Valley Region.

The Niibi Center is a catalyst for research, advocacy, and activism, grounded in Indigenous culture and knowledge to protect and advance Anishinaabe prophecy, sovereignty, and cultural survival. The Niibi Center provides programs, education and events aimed at language preservation, protecting the rights of niibi (water) and manoomin (wild rice), healing of historical trauma and building traditional women’s leadership.

The Organizers Institute South and West IAF provides training and support in the areas of leadership and institutional development to over 30 local broad-based organizations of the Industrial Areas Foundation network in 10 South and Western US states. In terms of climate justice, the Texas IAF network organized a successful, non-partisan strategy to end the Texas Chapter 313 program, which allowed petrochemical and other industrial giants to take $45 billion in school district revenue through corporate tax cuts. Not only was a dysfunctional tax policy allowed to sunset, multiple attempts to reinstate these kinds of tax cuts were thwarted. With the original tax policy set to expire in December of 2022, the Texas IAF network can now build relationships with potential allies in environmental and labor movements to shape economic development policy in a way that bolsters the state budget, rather than draining it, and maintains good jobs and a level playing field in energy and manufacturing.

The Port Arthur Community Action Network, or “PACAN”, is an environmental justice advocacy and community development organization serving the City of Port Arthur, TX, a town described as a “sacrifice zone” for the oil and gas industry. PACAN fights back against the constant pollution and corruption that has caused residents to suffer from COPD, cancer, asthma, and decades of economic extraction by building the power of the local community through mutual aid, applying for government grants to add solar panels to homes, executing hurricane relief and coordinating legal aid. PACAN successfully stopped Zeo Gas’s proposed $1.2 billion dollar methanol plant by organizing residents to lobby city council to deny the permit and request for tax abatements.

Chispa builds the power of latino/tejano communities of color to achieve climate justice, community health, and hold both lawmakers and polluters accountable to our communities through grassroots organizing. They are now squarely aiming at flipping the Corpus City council, which has major decision-making responsibilities over the port of Corpus Christi where an untold amount of oil and gas infrastructure projects are either operating, under construction, or proposed. Their parallel focus is to protect residents living in the shadow of the port from the land grabs industry is attempting to make in the neighborhood to expand their operations inland.

Highlander is a training organization that focuses on social and economic justice, environmentalism, and grassroots movements, especially in Appalachia and the American South. Highlander is expanding its finance team’s capacity in order to offer fiscal sponsorship to vital grassroots organizing in the South.

The Line 3 Storytelling Anthology is a collection of stories from the movement to Stop Line 3 that will be published and given to water protectors. Over the past decade, hundreds of people in Minnesota and around turtle island dedicated themselves to this fight for the climate, for water, and for Anishinaabe sovereignty. At this crucial moment of loss and transition after the completion of the pipeline, our anthology team is taking a pause to collect the stories of water protectors. Through this collection of writing, drawing, photography, and more, we hope to honor and commemorate the diverse experiences of those who resisted and struggled for a better world through the movement to stop Line 3.

The mission of the Vessel Project of Louisiana is to help our most vulnerable black, indigenous, people of color, low income communities in the most efficient way possible while allowing them to keep their dignity and advocate for themselves through empowerment and by providing them with their most emergency needs as barrier free as possible. The Vessel Project of Louisiana envisions empowered, resilient individuals and communities that will restore hope following crisis and revolt against disaster capitalism and climate chaos, in favor of a more peaceful and sustainable world.

Ronald K Turney Jr captures and compiles drone footage to monitor the Line 3 oil pipeline, with particular emphasis on water crossings. Ron is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and has been an integral part of the fight to protect homelands, ecosystems and waterways, including the iconic Mississippi River, from the environmental destruction brought by this irresponsible and ill advised oil pipeline. The Makwa Initiative stands to protect the sacred land and rice lakes of the Anishinaabe people against Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Project.

Movement Rights’ mission is to work with Indigenous tribes and communities to align human laws and culture with the laws of the natural world in the time of climate chaos. We work to elevate the voice of Indigenous people at the UN, community meetings, regulatory hearings, and more. Movement Rights’ work offers a deep structural analysis of the role of corporations in creating and sustaining the conditions for climate chaos by using our political, economic and legal systems to create wealth for the few.

The Gathering of Eagles is a convergence of canoe families from across the Salish Seas of the Pacific Ocean, who are gathering for a two-day ceremony in May followed by a celebration of Lummi elder and veteran land defender Jewel James. This convergence is led and designed by Indigenous Earth, Sky & Water Protectors in the Pacific Northwest, to build solidarity across multiple campaigns tackling the threats of pipelines, tankers and other Oil, Gas and extractive industries across the lands and waters of the Salish Seas.

Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization based in Canada guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice.

The Descendants Project is an emerging organization committed to the intergenerational healing and flourishing of the Black descendant community in the Louisiana river parishes. The lands of the river parishes hold the intersecting histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and environmental degradation.Through programming, education, advocacy, and outreach, The Descendants Project is committed to reversing the vagrancies of slavery through healing and restorative work. They aim to eliminate the narrative violence of plantation tourism and champion the voice of the Black descendant community while demanding action that supports the total well-being of Black descendants.

Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) is a Black-led, social justice philanthropic organization that provides “critical justice infrastructure” in Louisiana, responding to crises fueled by the intersecting threats posed by oil and gas projects, climate change, and racial injustice. FFL was formed In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to channel national and international relief money to the local communities that were hardest hit. FFL has built out continuing services and programs running high impact programming in the spaces of decarceration, reproductive rights, and climate justice. They have also begun to build an arm dedicated to fiscal sponsorship for small grassroots groups across the state, many of which are fighting oil and gas expansion along the gulf.

Generation Green is a Black youth and women-led organization focused on building an ecosystem that fortifies the leadership of young people in the environmental liberation movement throughout the African Diaspora. They connect a number of environmental and social justice movements for the purpose of creating a regenerative and decolonized future in which Black people are liberated through collective power-building.

Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) is a women-led organization on a mission to protect our environment, reverse climate change, and ensure a just, thriving world by empowering women’s leadership in the climate justice movement. WEA’s signature Accelerator provides leadership, strategy, and technical training for women leaders to scale their climate and environmental initiatives while connecting them to a global alliance of peers, mentors, and funders.

GreenFaith is an interfaith coalition working to build a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement. They are focused on building a strong base of religious progressives and moderates by activating their moral conscience and encouraging them to take action on climate issues on which they might not otherwise engage. They leverage an interfaith and strongly spiritual approach to emphasize the moral imperative to stop fossil fuel extraction and demand that governments and religious institutions do what’s necessary to make the change. With 30,000 congregations as part of their network and 20% of them –and growing –engaged in frontline fossil fuel fights, they fill an important gap and have seized an opportunity to broaden and enrich the movement.

The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a small organization dedicated to frontline women’s leadership in the movement for climate justice. It was created to accelerate a global women’s movement for the protection and defense of the Earth’s diverse ecosystems and communities. They focus on short-term and long-term systemic change and solutions to address the climate crisis and the root causes of environmental degradation and socio-economic inequalities.

Founded in 1985, the Alliance for Affordable Energy promotes equitable, affordable, environmentally responsible energy. From the start, they have advanced a philosophy that there is no conflict between lower energy costs and lower pollution, between good jobs and regulation, or between serving the public interest and making a reasonable profit. Because they are both a consumer advocate and public health advocacy organization, their policy work meets at the crossroads of social justice, sustainable economic development, and environmental protection.

The mission of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is to collaborate with impacted communities and hasten the transition from fossil fuels. LABB works with communities that live near polluting facilities and are in what they call the “bullseye” of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. Their collaboration with impacted communities in Louisiana has defined their work since their inception in 2000.

Healthy Gulf’s purpose is to collaborate with and serve communities who love the Gulf of Mexico by providing the research, communications, and coalition-building tools needed to reverse the long pattern of over exploitation of the Gulf’s natural resources. Healthy Gulf organizes community-based resistance to petrochemical buildout in the Gulf, particularly in Louisiana and Texas.

Memphis Community Against the Pipeline is a Black-led grassroots movement rooted in South Memphis, Tennessee that successfully fought and beat Valero Energy Corporation and Plains All American’s Byhalia Connection Pipeline, a proposed crude oil pipeline that would have cut through Southwest Memphis communities already burdened by decades of environmental injustice. They are now turning their focus on ending the legal loopholes that would allow Valero’s operations or a pipeline to come back into the area.

US Climate Action (USCAN) is a coalition of over 200 environmental, labor, policy, and justice focused organizations committed to fighting climate change in a just and equitable way. USCAN launched Arm in Arm with the goal to build toward a massive decentralized escalated action through 2023 by cultivating organizing hubs across the country.

Bay Mills people are Ojibwa or Chippewa who have lived for hundreds of years around the Whitefish Bay, the falls of the St. Mary River and the bluffs overlooking Tahquamenon Bay, all on Lake Superior, most of which still encompass their present day homeland. They have been actively advocating against Enbridge and Line 5 since the notorious Line 6B spill into the Kalamazoo River in 2010, resulting in one of the largest inland oil spills in US history. The Bay Mills Indian Community is located twenty five miles west of Sault Ste. Marie in Brimley, Michigan, within the boundaries of Chippewa County.

The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is an alliance of Indigenous peoples whose mission it is to protect the sacredness of Mother earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining, and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws. IEN has been a leading organization and alliance first against DAPL and then more broadly as they have been recognized for their expertise and unique voice in the fight against the expansion of fossil fuels.

West Virginia Rivers is a statewide voice for clean, drinkable, swimmable, fishable rivers and streams. WIth this focus, they have been a leading voice to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which not only threatens crucial headwaters and streams, but has already polluted them during its construction and development.

Oil & Water Don’t Mix is a coalition of organizations and citizens across Michigan are working to keep oil out of the Great Lakes and spur a transition to a clean energy economy. Focusing on concerns about water quality, Indigenous rights, climate change, pollution, sustainable economies, protecting sporting, commerce, tourism, and jobs, Oil & Water Don’t Mix have been fighting back against the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan.

Seven Directions of Service is an indigenous-led organization leading the fight to protect land, water, and community against the MVP Southgate Extension in North Carolina. Through community education, outreach, and organizing, they have successfully raised awareness and resistance to this dangerous project.

The Society of Native Nations is an organization founded by Native people in Texas with members in many states that are dedicated to advocating for indigenous people and the earth by helping to protect and preserve native culture, spirituality, teachings, medicine, and way of life, including passionate protection of land and people. Equation Campaign’s grant supports their (zero waste) emergency response to tribal communities in the wake of covid and the winter freeze, and investment in their “Pipelines to Plastics” campaign which organizes resistance to fossil fuel projects.

The Labor Network for Sustainability is playing a critical role in building the strong, broad movement that is needed to advance strategies for a transition from a world with an economy, society, and climate in crisis to one that has a sustainable future. LNS is dedicated to helping labor realize its self-interest in becoming a central player in the movement to address climate change, economic instability and political deadlock, and to build a sustainable future for the planet and its people.

Resilience Force invests in the dignity and power of the frontline workers who help communities adapt and thrive to climate disasters to build back better by building back fossil free. The national initiative organizes workers from poor and marginalized communities in oil and gas producing regions to demand fair wages and working conditions for this growing sector of the economy.

MNIPL is an interfaith organization pursuing healing justice work in northern Minnesota in the 13 county area where the Line 3 pipeline was built in 2021 and works to promote public policy in Minnesota that will protect the public interest from future fossil fuel projects. MNIPL previously built the interfaith climate movement in Minnesota by empowering faith communities across the state to take action that was authentic, effective, and energizing in their context, and played a supportive coordinating role in the frontline fight against Line 3.

Unkítawa is an indigenous-led group of dedicated, results-oriented people who have come together to support the efforts that protect and heal the Earth for the benefit of all and provide core organizing and spiritual support to indigenous activists.

Currently fighting the Line 3 pipeline, Honor the Earth uses indigenous wisdom, music, art, and the media to raise awareness and support for Indigenous Environmental Issues, then leverage this awareness and support to develop financial and political capital for Indigenous struggles for land and life.

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, NDN Collective is creating sustainable solutions and strategies for Indigenous self-determination and movement-building.

MOVE Texas is on a mission to build power in underrepresented youth communities across Texas by building engagement and involvement on matters that they most care about. 

The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe are leading the fight against three liquid natural gas terminals on their sacred land. In partnership with locals and organizers, they’ve successfully held off construction for five years.

Polluters Out is a youth-led coalition of the entirety of the climate movement across the globe. Their focus is ending the fossil fuel industry’s control over “every aspect of our society from indigenous lands, governments, banks, universities, and climate negotiations.”

Our Kids Climate is a network of 58 parent groups from 23 countries who are uniting for climate action to protect the kids we love from the climate crisis. This grant supports a new Climate Parent Fellowship created in conjunction with Parents For Future Global, the global movement behind the Fridays for Future youth movement. 

A multi-racial coalition of indigenous and rural organizations, Promise to Protect has been instrumental in fighting back Keystone XL. Our grants went to member organizations Brave Heart Society, Indigenous Environmental Network, NDN Collective, Native Organizers Alliance, Dakota Rural Action, 350.org, Wiconi un Tipi Resistance Camp, and Bold Nebraska

The Pipeline Fighters Hub is a project of the Bold Education Fund designed to help connect and resource local communities fighting fossil fuel pipelines. In the last 10 years, the movement collectively has developed a wide-ranging expertise in how to fight pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure.The Pipeline Fighters Hub provides technical, legal, storytelling and organizing assistance to any community fighting pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, with the goal of protecting the land and water while staying rooted in local and traditional cultures.

FFU is a training course for young climate justice activists around the world who want to channel the power of the youth movement to address the source of the climate crisis.