Windward Fund

For The Water Funder Initiative

Amount

$200,000
Program

Environment
Date Awarded

11/5/2018
Term

12 Months
Type of Support

General Support/Program

Strategies

Western Conservation

Overview

The Windward Fund’s Water Funders Initiative seeks to advance sustainable water management in the American West by catalyzing philanthropy to confront the toughest problems at hand, with an eye toward building a field capable of delivering systemic change. This grant supports the activities of the Water Funders Initiative.

About the Grantee

Address

1201 Connecticut Ave Nw Ste 300
Washington, DC 20036

Grants to this Grantee

Mar 22, 2021

$150,000

for the Water Funder Initiative matching grant fund

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Mar 5, 2021

$1,000,000

for the Women and Climate Fund

The Windward Fund is the fiscal sponsor for a new regranting intermediary focused on elevating investment in diverse climate justice leadership to move equitable climate solutions at the speed and scale needed to attain a just and habitable world. Inaugural seed funding from the Hewlett Foundation’s Climate Initiative, Performing Arts Program, and U.S. Reproductive Health Program supported the launch of the fund in 2019. (Substrategy: Climate Finance)

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Nov 13, 2020

$100,000

for Phase II to develop a natural and working lands strategy to reach carbon neutrality goals

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