Climate Equity Policy Fellows
The Climate Equity Policy Fellowship supports frontline organizations in Equity Fund states to deepen frontline policy capacity to create state-level policy change. It provides funding for three-year policy positions for select host organizations and offers training and mentoring opportunities for the Fellows.
2023 Host Organizations
Make the Road PA
Progressive MD
Philly Thrive
CASA MD
9to5 Colorado
PLAN
Nevada Environmental Justice Coalition / Make the Road
Illinois People's Action (IPA)
Chicago Environmental Justice Network
People's Lobby
Catalyst Miami
Cohort Coordinator (Central Florida Jobs with Justice)
Florida Rising
We are Down Home
2022 Host Organizations
In 2022, The Equity Fund launched its first cohort of Climate Equity Policy Fellows in New Mexico and Virginia.
Somos Un Pueblo Unidos
Power 4 NM
Naeva
Virginia Organizing
Virginia Interfaith Power and Light
VA Climate Equity Working Group
How Did We Get Here
Frontline communities are an essential part of ensuring that the most equitable policies are created, championed, and passed, yet support for these groups is still nascent. In 2021, The Equity Fund conducted a landscape analysis to find out what kind of support is needed by frontline organizations and practitioners to accelerate the climate and environmental justice movement. Published in this report – Accelerating Equitable Climate Policy: A Landscape Analysis – the analysis found that the Climate Equity Policy Fellowship can serve as a critical intervention in building long-term policy capacity, rooted in movement.
What We Hope To Achieve
The overall goal for the Climate Equity Policy Fellowship Program is to accelerate the adoption of holistic and equitable policy solutions generated by grassroots organizations and practitioners. The program will accomplish this through:
Supporting frontline and grassroots organizations to build/deepen strong climate and clean energy policy capacity, rooted in movement, to strategize for holistic and equitable policy change that advances environmental, economic, and social justice at the state-level.
Cultivating policy practitioners in the climate and environmental justice movement to bridge the gap between policy and organizing who are from frontline communities, grounded in community-based organizing principles, and committed to working in deep alignment with communities.
Advancing a replicable model for other funders invested in resourcing grassroots organizations’ policy expertise
Creating a connected and empowering internal Fellowship community and culture which fellows can rely on for feedback, training, mentorship, and support while working through
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