Windward Fund
For The Methane Hub
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Amount$20,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/1/2022
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
In the past decade, global methane emissions have risen at a rate faster than at any time in the past 30 years. Moving quickly to rapidly decrease methane emissions could reduce warming by as much as 0.3 degrees Celsius by the 2040s, and by more than 0.5 C by 2100. Strategies specifically targeting methane from all sectors need to be implemented to achieve sufficient methane mitigation, yet the current field of methane advocacy is insufficiently funded, and strategies are not yet fully developed to address the scale of the problem. Housed at the Windward Fund, the Methane Hub will move quickly to leverage new monitoring tools and growing ambition and commitments from policymakers, while developing the next set of strategies and building new analytical and advocacy capacity globally. (Substrategy: Philanthropic Capacity)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.windwardfund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300-C, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
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)
for the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice
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)
