Sunrise Movement Education Fund

The Sunrise Movement Education Fund works to make climate change an urgent public priority across America and reduce the influence of fossil industries on the country’s public discourse. Sunrise will accomplish this by organizing a multiracial, cross-class base of young people; building a pipeline of leadership in the climate movement to keep the climate crisis an urgent public priority; and engaging that organized bloc of young people to implement the decarbonization policies already on the table, leading to concrete change for our communities. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)

Sunrise Movement Education Fund is a youth movement-building organization dedicated to addressing the climate crisis. The fund works to build a multiracial, cross-class movement for bold solutions that meet the scale of the climate challenge. The fund organizes in communities, recruiting and training new leaders, and mobilizes nationally. Its voice is important in driving ambition for climate progress with policymakers, and in holding policymakers accountable to their climate commitments. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)

This Organizational Effectiveness grant would help Sunrise Movement Education Fund (SMEF) scale its organizational capacity with respect to financial health, ensuring that SMEF can plan effectively to support its rapid growth and maintain organizational stability.