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Topic: Environment

Rapid Response Resources: Hurricane Helene

As tragic reports are coming in from partners across the Southeast U.S., we’re witnessing in real time the devastating toll of climate crises on our communities, impacting our very own ecosystem of movement partners in Florida, Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee.
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Action photos from our 2023 annual conference

Empowering Change: Takeaways from WDN’s 2023 Impact

In 2023, we mobilized an incredible $20.2 million via WDN and WDN Action, funding 175 organizations and projects. We strengthened our community by welcoming new members and hitting three decade member anniversaries for others! And we harnessed our collective wisdom and deepest aspirations to chart our next era through our new strategic plan.
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Making Climate Justice Inevitable

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in response to a simple truth: traditional environmental movements are not fighting for the communities most impacted by climate change. The environmental justice landscape has historically been dominated by white-led organizations that work through moderate legislative policies, single-issue campaigns, and market-based solutions driven by profit.
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WDN’s Impact in 2023

Photo Credits: Just Vision and We Testify When we step back and look at our work in 2023, we see a constellation formed from moments of mobilization. Like stars in an unchanging sky, movement leaders and organizations guide us toward a more just future, which is why we prioritized and robustly supported existing partnerships with unrestricted funding.
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We Sent $3.8M to the Field This Fall

Photo: Alliance for Youth Organizing We close 2023 with one of our largest funding pushes to date – over $3.8 million in grantmaking this fall! WDN’s members, staff, and movement partners collaborated to channel these funds to 48 organizations championing progress across Black liberation and feminism, workers’ rights, economic justice, abortion access, a Just Transition, year-round voter engagement, and pro-democracy work.
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We Just Directed $2.4M to 27 Movement Organizations

In our most recent round of grants, we sent $2.4M to 27 organizations dedicated to creating safer, healthier, and more just communities for all. This latest round of support maintains our commitment to existing partnerships, explores new catalytic opportunities, and meaningfully backs a wide ecosystem of change-builders.
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A WDN Member’s Look At Landback

Photo: NDN Collective By Cynthia Beard WDN member Vice Chair, WDN Action Board WDN is proud to host Land and Legacy: Reclaiming Stolen Lands, a Landback learning series to highlight leaders working to rematriate stolen land. While the Landback movement has existed for generations, this movement has been elevated further in recent years through Indigenous-led direct action protests and social media campaigns.
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A drawing of two people farming together. They appear to be larger than life, like godexxes

Grantee Spotlight: Sparking Environmental Action

Climate change has reached a boiling point. Every day brings fresh signs of the crisis, from historic wildfires to once-a-century flooding, from unpredictable growing seasons to devastating hurricanes and tornadoes, with the worst impacts hitting communities with the fewest resources to respond.
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a portrait photograph of a farmworker. They wear a bandana over their face and a hat and reach for a bunch of grapes

Grantee Spotlight: Building Power for the Women Who Feed Us All

Farmworkers are perhaps the single most essential workers in our communities. Without food, nothing else matters. And yet, farmworkers often toil under backbreaking conditions and for poverty wages. Roughly 50% of farmworkers are undocumented, leaving them at risk of deportation and exploitation by employers.
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A photo of a group of people waving flags and standing behind a large banner that reads "the seas are rising and so are we"

Building Resilience on the Frontlines of Climate Chaos

For communities of color throughout the Gulf South, climate change is already here, and it’s only getting worse. The 2021 hurricane season was the third most active in recorded history, and 2020 was the most active ever. The devastation of climate change only amplifies environmental catastrophes, like the BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, that have hit the region in recent years.
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