Windward Fund

The Windward Fund seeks to build a more impactful environmental movement by connecting people across diverse geographies, sectors, and communities, enabling them to share resources, and providing a vehicle for effective community-based grassroots grantmaking that elevates the voices of those most impacted by environmental degradation. (Substrategy: Philanthropic Capacity)

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, fiscally sponsored at the Windward Fund, makes grants to organizations accelerating an equitable transition to cleaner energy, while reining in oil, gas, and petrochemical pollution across the U.S. South. The Hive Fund provides multiyear, general support to grantee partners primarily located in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas — states that contribute more than 20% of the nation’s climate pollution. The fund supports organizations working on implementation of recent federal policy, ensuring that these policies put the U.S. on a path to a clean energy transition, one that touches and improves the lives of a broad swath of Americans and intensifies support for even more climate action. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice is a specialized intermediary housed at the Windward Fund that raises funds and makes grants to groups that are building power to accelerate an equitable transition to clean energy in the U.S. South. Many of the Hive Fund’s program staff are new to philanthropy and the engagement style and practices utilized within the fund. This organizational effectiveness grant will provide the capacity to strengthen the skills of the program team to deepen self-awareness, understand the philanthropic context, strengthen relationships, develop place-based strategies, and serve ambassadors to build the field.