FUNDING PRIORITIES:
Our funding priorities are shaped by a view of the Earth as one community, an interconnected web of life in which human society is an integral part.
• PROTECT THE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT OF COMMUNITIES THREATENED BY TOXICS
Supporting organizations, primarily at the state and regional levels, that:
- Bring together activists to work on toxics exposure and contamination; and
- Promote initiatives and public policies that reduce the use of toxins and hold corporations accountable for their impact on the environment.
• ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Supporting organizations, led by people most heavily affected, that:
- Work to counter environmental degradation in low-income communities and communities of color.
• PROMOTE A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SYSTEM
Supporting rural and urban organizations that:
- Work with farmers and consumers on issues involving sustainable agriculture and community food security;
- Advocate for governmental policies and funding allocations that advance sustainable agriculture and community food security; and
- Counter the actions of public and private sector institutions and corporations that further the concentration of food production and the industrialization of agriculture.
• ENSURE QUALITY REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT
Supporting organizations that:
- Broaden the base and agenda of the reproductive rights movement through the involvement of new constituencies, primarily at the state level and in communities of color; and
- Advocate for legal and policy initiatives to safeguard reproductive freedom.
• FOSTER AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK CITY
Supporting community-based organizations that:
- Organize to protect the city's environment and the health of its residents;
- Develop effective coalitions and networks; and
- Promote public policies and improved responsiveness by public agencies to environmental concerns.
GRANTMAKING:
We prefer to make general support grants and do not limit the number of renewal grants. We believe this helps organizations increase and sustain their effectiveness.
We seek out organizations led by people of color and/or working in low income communities. We support efforts to develop the leadership skills of, and foster the participation by, low income people and people of color.
We encourage requests that address multiple priorities, as well as those that bring together organizations and activists from diverse movements. With first time grants, we try to bring diverse voices and approaches, and young people into the movements for social change.
We make grants throughout the United States in both rural and urban communities. Grants under the New York City funding priority are made for citywide activities and to organizations working in any of NYC's five boroughs.
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