Climate Emergency Fund
Summary
501(c)(3) grantmaker funding disruptive, nonviolent direct-action climate campaigns specifically (not general climate nonprofits) — useful as both a funding lead and a signal of what kind of escalation strategy currently attracts movement-infrastructure money.
Body
The Climate Emergency Fund is a US-based philanthropic fund that makes grants to support nonviolent climate action across the globe; its tagline - Your money powers nonviolent climate action that moves society now - captures its operational focus [source: climate-emergency-fund]. The fund’s grantmaking thesis is that mass-mobilisation is one of the highest-leverage responses to the climate emergency and that small, fast-moving grants can support groups that mobilise, win coverage, and change the world quickly [source: climate-emergency-fund]. The Climate Emergency Fund has become one of the standard philanthropic infrastructure organisations for frontline climate movements, particularly in the disruption-tradition [source: climate-emergency-fund].
Coverage: the fund’s grantmaking focuses on (i) frontline climate organisations using nonviolent disruption as a tactic; (ii) coverage-winning demonstrations that bring the climate-emergency narrative to the public; (iii) cross-movement coordination between climate, racial-justice, and economic-justice movements; and (iv) emergency rapid-response grants for climate-movement organisations in moments of state or industry attack [source: climate-emergency-fund]. The fund operates in the US, UK, and continental Europe, with portfolios designed to support both large coordinated mobilisations and small direct-action campaigns [source: climate-emergency-fund].
A campaigner reaches for it when seeking rapid-response grants for a climate-movement mobilisation, when designing a philanthropic narrative for a climate-emergency campaign, or when documenting the available funding infrastructure for disruption-tradition climate action [source: climate-emergency-fund]. Treat as link-only. [source: climate-emergency-fund]
Use it for
A funding lead for a climate campaign specifically built around disruptive nonviolent direct action, distinct from grassroots-fundraising sources aimed at general-purpose campaigns. [source: climate-emergency-fund] Seed funding specifically for launching a new climate movement organization, via its dedicated program area. [source: climate-emergency-fund]
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