Tides Foundation is pleased to announce the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Frontline Justice Fund’s Spring 2023 round of grantmaking.
Donor Name: Tides Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $25K–$150K
Details:
Launched in 2022, the Tides Foundation Frontline Justice Fund (FJF) provides grants to groups representing communities who are living with and fighting against toxic pollution, the fallout from climate disasters, and the looming threat of new and expanding oil pipelines, mines, petrochemical plants, and other dangerous and destructive projects.
In concert with public mobilization, leveraging the power of the law with highly impacted community-based plaintiffs is by far the most compelling pathway in advancing equitable environmental protections and safeguards.
By directing funding to under-resourced communities who are using legal and regulatory advocacy to address environmental degradation and injustice, they can help to secure the rights of people and nature and create durable and impactful systemic change so that all can thrive.
Priorities
- Groups engaged in, or anticipate engaging in, protracted legal or regulatory actions to advance environmental and climate justice.
- Those who require rapid response or multi-year funding to cover non-legal costs with mounting and sustaining successful legal orregulatory advocacy campaigns. (i.e., organizing, communications, technical expertise, capacity building, etc.)
- Groups representing Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and/or low income frontline communities most impacted by environmental harm, racism, and injustice.
- Communities where resources will have a direct impact on the frontlines. These are communities most impacted by environmental harms, with broader implications in the fight for environmental and climate justice.
Funding Information
- The Frontline Justice Fund will grant a total of up to $3M.
- Anticipate grants will fall in the range of $25K–$150K.
- At least 30% of organizations will receive multi year funding
Eligibility Criteria
Within this larger context, the Fund will support grassroots environmental and climate justice organizations that:
- Are actively engaged in (or want to actively engage in) community-based legal, legislative, and/or regulatory advocacy, to advance environmental and climate justice, specifically to confront existing or proposed extractive industry infrastructure, remediation and reduction of legacy pollution, and/or fostering the growth of community-supported clean energy and energy efficiency solutions.
- Are actively engaged in (or want to actively engage in) legal, legislative, and/or regulatory advocacy, to leverage this historic moment in federal infrastructure and climate funding to ensure investments are implemented in an equitable and just way while fighting any effort to expand or prolong use of fossil fuels that would adversely impact local communities.
- Require rapid response or multiyear funding to cover legal and non-legal costs, and/or necessary organizational capacity costs to adequately support with mounting and sustaining successful legal or regulatory advocacy campaigns (i.e., organizing, communications, technical expertise, legislative advocacy, capacity building, etc.).
- Represent under-resourced Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and/or under-resourced frontline communities, in particular Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities, most impacted by environmental harm, racism, and injustice.
- Represent communities where resources will have a direct impact on the frontlines. These are communities most impacted by environmental harms, with broader implications in the fight for environmental and climate justice.
Priority consideration will be given to:
- Groups who face systemic barriers to resources and opportunities
- Groups engaged in (or anticipate engaging in) legal or regulatory actions designed to fight existing or proposed extractive industry infrastructure projects that threaten the health, safety, and well-being of frontline communities (e.g., pipelines, oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining).
- Groups who are leveraging legal, regulatory, and/or legislative advocacy to access or enforce recent federal infrastructure funding and policies to ensure equitable distribution of investments to under-resourced communities.
- Chronically underfunded regions, especially the Southeast, Gulf South/TX, and Appalachia/the Ohio River Valley. While groups across the country, and in Puerto Rico, are encouraged to apply, at least 60% of funding in this round will be allocated to these regions.
- Grassroots and frontline organizations with an organizational and/or climate program budget less than or close to $2 million.
Frontline Justice Fund does not fund:
- Work or organizations outside of the United States
- Projects inconsistent with a legitimate charitable purpose and applicable law, including any political campaign intervention or impermissible private benefit
- Projects inconsistent with Tides vision, mission, and approach, their organizational values, and FJF’s funding priorities
- Nonprofit public interest legal service organizations and for-profit law firms
- Groups that currently have an open grant with FJF are not eligible to apply for this round of grants
For more information, visit Frontline Justice Fund.
