From Voting Rights to Clean Water: Announcing Our Fall 2021 Grant Recipients
We are thrilled to announce our Fall 2021 grant recipients! These organizations are doing cutting-edge work to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
They are tackling injustice and defending our democracy. They are advancing solutions to climate change, which is an existential threat to the planet. They are innovating solutions to ensure we can all enjoy healthy food and clean water. And, they are protecting the landscapes we call home.
Our nation’s big, complex problems demand an abundance of compassion and action on an unprecedented scale. That’s why we’re proud and humbled to support the incredible organizations listed below.
Check out how they are leading the way to a better world, and get inspired!
Social Justice
Mississippi Center for Justice
By engaging elected officials, faith-based leaders, media, community activists, educators, childcare providers, healthcare professionals and other advocacy partners, the Mississippi Center for Justice provides the legal perspective to policy initiatives that improve the lives of Mississippians.
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South.
Climate
Climate Neutral turns climate aspirations into action by giving companies a clear roadmap, a simple set of tools, and an incentive to eliminate their carbon - right now. For customers, Climate Neutral Certified helps you find companies that offset and reduce all of their greenhouse gas emissions.
Zero Foodprint food businesses and their customers help farmers turn bad carbon into good carbon. Carbon farming (also called regenerative farming) restores soil biology, which naturally pulls tons of carbon (literally) out of the atmosphere, brings soil back to life, and replenishes nutrients.
Land & Water Stewardship
Over the past six years, the Navajo Water Project has brought clean, running water to more than 300 Navajo households. They’ve also lit up remote homes with solar power, delivered 13 million gallons of water, created jobs, and sustained thousands of families throughout the pandemic.
The Freshwater Trust
The Freshwater Trust protects and restores freshwater ecosystems. With more than 35 years of on-the-ground experience, The Freshwater Trust uses science, technology and incentive-based solutions for conservation.
Food Systems
Agriculture can be used to solve many of the world’s problems, and Ecdysis Foundation provides the Research and Development that can make innovative practices scalable and transferable to as many operations as possible.
The mission of Jubilee Justice is to heal and transform the wounds suffered by the people and the land through reparative genealogy and regenerative agriculture. They envision an America where the institutional injustices concerning Land, Race and Money, that are rooted in a history of extraction and exploitation, both spiritually and materially transform toward justice, equity and repair.
Manzanita Capital Collective
Manzanita Capital Collective’s purpose centers on self-determination, rematriation of land to indigenous communities, climate resilience, and a just transition from an extractive to a regenerative economy. Our work aims to shift power and channel capital to advance indigenous food and land sovereignty, sustainable food and ag, and racial and economic justice. In collaboration with values-aligned partners, we strive to move philanthropy and impact investing to redistribute capital, land and power to, and to be governed by, farmers of color, indigenous land stewards, and communities working towards food, ag and land justice.