Community Initiatives
For The Just Solutions Collective
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Amount$492,800
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Program
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Date Awarded11/4/2022
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Just Solutions Collective, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, works to build the capacity needed to scale equity-centered solutions to the climate crisis. Just Solutions supports environmental and climate justice organizations to strengthen their individual and collective policy capacity, elevate new policy models, and build a learning network. Just Solutions is working to ensure that the implementation of federal climate investment legislation brings positive environmental, economic, and social outcomes to communities. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.communityIn.org
Address
1000 Broadway, Suite 480, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for sponsorship of CSLX funder convening
This grant will support a convening hosted by Community Schools Learning Exchange (CSLX): Staying the Course: Student Success in a Post-ESSER Landscape. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)
for CSLX organization assessment, planning, and wellness
The Community Schools Learning Exchange (CSLX) supports stakeholders in implementing and refining whole-child community schools that leverage complementary whole-system efforts across the education and other child- and family-serving ecosystems. CSLX envisions community schools that are organized to create and sustain the optimal conditions for teaching and learning, are inclusive, equitable, student and family-centered, and are interconnected with the organizations and people within the communities they serve. This organizational effectiveness grant will support CSLX while they undergo organizational assessment and planning to highlight strengths and identify areas of opportunity and develop recommendations and tools to strengthen those areas. This will allow CSLX to refine their operating model and organizational structure, codify their practices, and ultimately develop a strategic plan that reflects their values and priorities in collaboration with the communities and stakeholders they work with. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose.
for Just Solutions Collective’s leadership recruitment and staff development
The Just Solutions Collective works to broaden and deepen the understanding and implementation of equitable and effective climate policies and programs at a scale and pace that match the urgency of the climate crisis. This organizational effectiveness grant will support a search for the organization's first Directors of Research and Policy, develop a more robust evaluation system, protocols, and templates that facilitate optimal leadership and professional development.