From Uncovering the True Cost of Climate Crisis to Building a More Just Food System: Announcing Our Summer Grant Recipients
Mighty Arrow Family Foundation is excited to announce our Summer 2024 grant recipients. The current heat waves and political headlines can feel daunting, but now is not the time to look away, we must continue to lean in and find the solutions through the chaos. Each one of these recipients represents real change and hope for the future. Their work is a reminder of the things we can accomplish when we focus our energy and resources to work together. We truly can shift the course of the future, and we’re looking forward to how these partners do it.
Matching Grant with Honnold Foundation
The Honnold Foundation partners with marginalized communities to expand equitable solar energy access. Often times the support for solar projects within these communities or nonprofit organizations also helps to elevate awareness around the mission and work of the partnering NGO. Mighty Arrow is honored to join the Honnold Foundation with a matching grant to install a solar project at a nonprofit farm in California who’s mission is aligned with multiple strategies within our funding priorities. More information on the nonprofit partner receiving the support for their solar project will be announced later this summer.
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is a nonpartisan budget watchdog that has served as an independent voice for the American taxpayer since 1995. As we feel the impacts of climate change TCS is making sure we can also know exactly how our money is being spent on the catastrophic wildfires that have become more frequent and destructive. With new resources available, it’s more important than ever to understand the complex web of wildfire-related spending that spans dozens of agencies and departments and the billions of dollars earmarked for this work. Taxpayers have a right to know where and how their money is being spent and this grant supports TCS in developing a report on the State of California’s wildfire spending.
Green Foothills aims to protect the open space, farmland and natural resources of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties in California for the benefit of all through advocacy, education and grassroots action. Prioritizing a more diverse and inclusive conservation movement to foster deeper relationships and direct increased resources in marginalized communities, Green Foothills is in the process of developing a new strategic plan that centers the diverse demographic of communities its team serves, with a goal to model how communities and economies can thrive in balance with and respect for nature.
National Center for Appropriate Tech in Partnership with Quivira Coalition
The National Center for Appropriate Tech (NCAT) works nationwide in the agriculture and energy sectors to build resilient communities, reduce poverty, promote equity and protect natural resources. Alongside the Quivira Coalition, which builds soil, biodiversity and resilience on western working landscapes, fostering ecological, economic, and social health through education, innovation and collaboration, NCAT has launched The Grazing for Resilience Project. The project leverages the shared vision and complementary strengths of NCAT and the Quivira Coalition to shift power, paradigms and resource allocations within New Mexico’s ranching communities to facilitate a swift, lasting uptake of regenerative landcare practices essential to building resilient food systems, abating climate change, enhancing biodiversity and empowering rural communities.
Colorado Grain Chain’s vision: For every household, food and beverage supplier, and maker in Colorado to use and value locally grown grains. The Colorado Grain Chain (CGC) is committed to growing Colorado’s local grain economy by cultivating demand and market connections for local and sustainably sourced grains. By building an attractive marketplace for local, sustainably grown grains through a variety of hosted events and expanding education and leadership opportunities for the next generation in food and agriculture, CGC is charting a path toward a sustained and thriving local grain economy. We are specifically funding a project related to winter rye as a cover crop solution in the San Luis Valley and the market development that would incentivize soil health practices for farmers.
Feed Black Futures (FBF) is the only Black-, Queer-, women-led organization in California investing in Black food economies and supporting prison-impacted Black mamas and caregivers in attaining food sovereignty. FBF builds power through Black food economies and food sovereignty, facilitating healing and addressing historical harms due to incarceration and land dispossession. This project will establish and launch a Food Sovereignty and Advocacy Cohort in an effort to create a network of food leaders with a deep understanding of food and land sovereignty committed to building a racially just food system across four counties in California (Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Sacramento, and Alameda).