Bread & Roses Community Fund, with support from the William Penn Foundation, is creating a three-year Climate Justice Organizing Fund.
Donor Name: Bread & Roses Community Fund
State: Pennsylvania
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/06/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Climate Justice Organizing Fund will provide resources to groups organizing to advance climate justice in a variety of issue areas. This may include interconnected issues like:
- Racial Justice and Climate Justice: Environmental disparities stem from historical redlining, disinvestment, and discriminatory policies that have placed polluting industries, hazardous waste sites, and inadequate infrastructure in predominantly Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income neighborhoods. As climate change increases, these neighborhoods also lack adequate tree canopies, are in floodplains, and continue to grapple with being left out of decision-making.
- Food Security and Climate Justice: Extreme weather caused by climate change (fires, floods, and extreme heat) disrupts food supply chains, which leads to higher and unpredictable prices and more food scarcity for communities that often live in food deserts or lack resources to access healthy food, compounding pre-existing environmental and economic injustice.
- Affordable Housing and Climate Justice: Populations most at risk for climate impacts are the ones experiencing the most significant housing affordability, maintenance, and displacement issues. For instance, Black, Latinx, and Native households spend between 25-45 percent of their income on energy costs. This is referred to as energy poverty. As extreme heat increases, so does energy poverty. These same communities are less likely to have the funding to weatherize homes or invest in clean energy solutions that decrease energy costs and are more likely to be displaced by predatory development practices.
- Health Equity and Climate Justice: Climate change disproportionately harms communities facing systemic health disparities—who bear the most significant health burdens from pollution, extreme weather, and environmental hazards.
- Public Transportation and Climate Justice: Public transportation is critical in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality, and promoting climate resilience. However, disparities in transit access disproportionately affect communities also the most impacted by climate change.
Types of Tracks
- Track One: Climate Justice Capacity Building and Strategy Development
- Track One is designed to strengthen the foundational work necessary for effective climate organizing, ensuring that movements have the preparation and strategic alignment needed for long-term success. These grants will:
- Support capacity-building activities through climate justice organizing training for community-based organizations, community members, coalitions, and/or other stakeholders. The organizing and training funded by these grants must result in a strengthened capacity for actually implementing a climate justice organizing strategy.
- Track Two – Implementing a Climate Justice Organizing Strategy
- This funding track is designed to support grassroots, community-led organizations working in the climate justice space. It is intended for groups that have already developed a climate justice organizing strategy and need financial support to sustain, implement, or scale efforts. Unlike funding for planning or preparation as outlined in Track One, this funding track focuses explicitly on implementation.
Funding Information
- Climate Justice Capacity Building and Strategy Development
- Up to $15,000 grants
- Implementing a Climate Justice Organizing Strategy
- Up to $25,000 grants.
Eligibility Criteria
- An annual operating budget of $500,000 or less.
- Leadership must reflect the organizational membership base, include people directly affected by the climate crisis, and represent communities affected by the climate crisis.
- Eligible organizations must use or plan to use community organizing that centers the experiences and voices of climate-impacted communities. Specifically, eligible organizations build power by and with grassroots communities to hold corporations and policymakers accountable to impacted communities.
- Eligible applicants should demonstrate that they understand climate justice and environmental racism and how the issues they are organizing around promote climate justice.
- Additional Track One Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include new organizations focusing on climate justice or existing grassroots organization expanding their work to focus on climate justice.
- Additional Track Two Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organizations:
- Have a track record of community organizing tactics that drive change in legislative or regulatory policies or institutional practices.
- Invest in community engagement to ensure their strategies are informed directly by community members impacted by climate change.
- Have a track record of basebuilding, e.g., growing the number of communities and residents supporting climate justice issues by bringing in new people or groups.
For more information, visit Bread & Roses Community Fund.
