Windward Fund

Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

The Windward Fund incubates and hosts initiatives that pursue solutions to environmental challenges by elevating the voices of those most impacted by environmental degradation. The award supports the Windward Fund’s Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, which helps organizations and networks on the frontlines work to address the climate crisis in the American South. Without an equity and racial-justice orientation, climate solutions risk perpetuating and exacerbating previous unjust patterns, thus undermining the broad public support needed for rapid progress on the climate crisis. The Hive Fund supports organizations that advocate for women, people of color, and under-invested communities participating in developing and implementing climate solutions.

Heartland Fund

Global Methane Hub

The Windward Fund incubates and hosts initiatives that pursue solutions to environmental challenges by elevating the voices of those most impacted by environmental degradation. The award supports the Windward Fund's Methane Hub, which is a $300 million initiative that enables funders to coordinate their giving to support the field of methane work, including communications, advocacy, technical assistance, diplomacy, monitoring and verification, and research. It serves as a pooled fund and as a resource for the field to ensure that we leverage the momentum and political will of the moment and reduce anthropogenic methane, which is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

The Windward Fund incubates and hosts initiatives that pursue solutions to environmental challenges by elevating the voices of those most impacted by environmental degradation. The award supports the Windward Fund’s Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, which supports organizations and networks led by Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color on the frontlines working to address the climate crisis in the United States. The impacts of climate change exacerbate existing health and other inequities faced by women, people of color, and under invested communities. Without an equity and racial justice orientation, climate solutions risk perpetuating and exacerbating these same unjust patterns, thus undermining the broad public support needed for rapid progress on the climate crisis.  The Hive Fund makes multi-year general support grants to organizations based mostly in the Southeast that are conducting advocacy and movement-building. The award helps these organizations build their capacity to engage effectively in advocacy on climate policy initiatives. 

The Climate Resilience Fund is a project of the Windward Fund that aims to mobilize the technical and financial resources necessary to build a climate resilient society. The Climate Resilience Fund does this by aligning financial resources around targeted efforts to build the technical capacity needed to begin meeting the demand for support of climate action locally and regionally. Over three years the Climate Resilience Fund is using this award to identify strategic investment opportunities for its members, develop a re-granting program and process, and grow philanthropic support for climate adaptation. This award supports core operations for three years, and initial capitalization of the Fund.