Funding movements on the ground to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
The majority of fossil fuel projects live or die based on the strength of support or opposition from local communities, media, government officials, and agencies.
What We Do
Gas corporations cite delays from opposition groups as the most significant threat to infrastructure expansion.
That’s why we’re funding the frontlines to win.
Equation Campaign supports strategies that disrupt the power of the oil and gas industry and unleashes the power of movements and people on the frontlines. We do this using the very levers that have given the industry its unprecedented influence: finance, media, law and political power.
We work with a national network of allies in identifying our grantee partners, building trust and carefully evaluating needs and priorities to make high impact
grants with an emphasis on centering BIPOC-led organizations and environmental justice communities. We ensure that funds in this area get directly to the frontlines, which often requires unconventional investment and funding, like seed money, technical support, and rapid response grants.
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The financial sector is still funding, insuring, and investing in the oil and gas industry. The industry also receives trillions of dollars in subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts.
Our finance-focused grants support campaigns that target the underwriters of the climate crisis and elevate the risks of funding, insuring, or investing in fossil fuels with the goal of stopping the money pipeline.
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We work to counter the oil and gas industry’s multi-billion dollar public relations machine by amplifying the voices of people who experience its harms the most.
We support journalism, media organizations, local watchdog groups, and community-led media projects that expose the truth and center the lived experience of people most directly impacted by oil and gas expansion.
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We support legal strategies and lawyers working to stop new or expanded oil and gas projects and to defend activists facing legal repression and retaliation from the industry.
Climate defenders face multiple direct threats for their work. Corporations alongside their government and financial enablers are responding with increased harassment, intimidation, violence, surveillance, and retaliatory legal action.
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Our support of financial, media, and legal campaigns – are core to our strategy. They rely on the momentum and power of a movement to demand and achieve rapid transformation. Growing a movement requires funding local organizations and communities hit hardest by the human rights, health, and environmental abuses of the fossil fuel industry. We believe those closest to the dangers are closest to the solutions, and hold untapped power to achieve the results that we all need.
As funders, we support grassroots and local movements whose energy is born and bred from threats facing their communities. They are communities fighting for the health and safety of their children, neighbors, and the homelands they love. They have the power to win, they just need resources to grow and sustain their movements to achieve systems changing wins.
