Women Donors Network | Environment Archives

Topic: Economic Justice

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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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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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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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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WDN-backed Hive Fund in the News

WDN (through our Safe & Sustainable Impact Collective) co-founded and provided early funding for an exciting new project: The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. The Fund was recently profiled in Inside Philanthropy (subscription required) and Philanthropy Women.
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Wrapping up 2019: Final Updates from WDN’s Initiatives

As we wrap up the year, we are excited to share a few final updates from WDN’s initiatives. The Impact Collectives have been hard at work awarding final grants for the year. We’re finishing 2019 strong and supporting the following organizations: This year, the Emergent Fund moved over $1 million to sixty-nine grantees, with most of them getting their funding within a week of our decision.
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What is WDN’s Safe & Sustainable Future doing amidst the youth climate strike?

Community organizing and global solidarity is critical for climate justice, as we’re seeing from the youth climate strike. Earlier this year, WDN’s Safe & Sustainable Future Impact Collective awarded $100,000 to the Sunrise Movement—key organizers of climate actions. Last year, Safe & Sustainable Future made grants to an incredible cohort of climate activists to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland in order to speak truth to power and strengthen the global climate justice movement.
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