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Just Transition for Workers

Our Policy Accelerator team partners with grantees to advance a Just Transition for all workers in harmful, polluting industry, which focuses on apprenticeship and job retraining programs, early retirement resources, and language access for migrant and undocumented workers. Grantees have secured significant progress in equitable access to resources in-state climate banks and workforce development programs. Examples of this work include advancing robust Community Benefit Agreements and prioritizing clean energy workforce development for communities of color.

Power-Building Strategies

  • Community Organizing
  • Strategic Communications
  • Policy Advocacy
  • Voter Participation and Education
  • Coalition Building

Constituents

  • Black
  • Indigenous
  • Latinx
  • AAPI
  • Immigrant
  • Multiracial

Select Grantees Working on Just Transition for Workers

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  • Naeva

    Naeva exists to unite community stakeholders for the purposes of materially, spiritually, and emotionally improving the quality of life for and continuity of Indigenous communities across New Mexico.

  • The Semilla Project

    The Semilla Project is a women of color-led 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preparing the next generation of young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to become strong leaders of environmental, economic, and racial justice.

  • Appalachian Voices

    Appalachian Voices brings people together to advance a just economic transition away from fossil fuels and toward a democratic and inclusive clean-energy future. They partner with impacted communities to strengthen environmental protections, enact equitable clean-energy policies, and secure investments in ecologically sound alternatives to extractive industries.

  • Green Workers Alliance

    The Green Workers Alliance mobilizes current and future workers in the clean energy field to build support for green jobs policies that grow the sector and improve job quality.

  • Center for Coalfield Justice

    The Center for Coalfield Justice is working with residents in Washington and Greene Counties to invest in the leadership of those who are most impacted, and to help create communities of people that possess the skills and analysis to advocate for their basic rights to a healthy environment and thriving economy.

  • Philly Thrive

    Philly Thrive organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice in Philadelphia. They work to heal the unmet needs the current extractive economy creates for communities while taking direct action to transform the extractive economy into a regenerative one.

  • PA Climate Equity Table

    The Pennsylvania Climate Equity Table is building power in communities across Pennsylvania that have been impacted by climate and environmental injustice.

  • Pittsburgh United

    Pittsburgh United is a coalition of community, labor, faith, and environmental organizations committed to advancing the vision of a community and economy that work for all people.

  • Philadelphians Organized to Witness Empower and Rebuild (POWER)

    POWER Interfaith organizes toward a new society based on equity, sustainability, and love through strong, multi-racial, people-centered organizations that relentlessly press for social change

  • NC A. Philip Randolph Institute (NCAPRI)

    North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute aims to improve the quality of life for economically disadvantaged families by providing the necessary resources that improve their standard of living, foster self improvement, self empowerment, and self sufficiency.

  • Climate and Jobs Roundtable

    The North Carolina Climate and Jobs Roundtable is a network of individuals from the worker’s rights, racial justice, and environmental movements in North Carolina. They are focused on building labor’s contribution to transforming our state’s economic and political systems towards a regenerative economy that supports workers, protects the environment, and paves the way for a sustainable future.

  • NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fe (CAFE)

    NM CAFe is a network of diverse religious institutions and community broad based organizations across Southern NM committed to building relational power with and for New Mexicans who have been directly impacted by systems of injustice.

  • Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ) Education Fund

    OLÉ trains BIPOC communities in the use of grassroots organizing strategies to create institutional changes that enrich, empower, and protect their communities.

  • Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA)

    YUCCA is a youth-led arm of the organization created to ignite a statewide youth-led movement to fight for a livable future by keeping remaining oil, gas, coal, and uranium reserves in the ground and transitioning our state from our dependence on fossil fuels and extractive industry.

  • Somos Un Pueblo Unido

    Somos Un Pueblo Unido works to build communities that guarantee the civil and worker’s rights of all people irrespective of national origin or immigration status.

  • Center for Civic Policy (CCP)

    The Center for Civic Policy is a nonpartisan organization that works to empower and amplify the voices of everyday New Mexicans, especially those who experience oppression, to shape a more inclusive, responsive, and accountable democracy.

  • Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accion Latina (COPAL Education Fund)

    Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past six years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.

  • Unidos MN Education Fund

    Unidos MN Education Fund is a grassroots organization that builds power for Minnesota’s Latino working families to advance social, racial and economic justice for all.

  • ISAIAH

    ISAIAH’s mission is to promote racial and economic justice through intentional, intensive leadership development and collective, faith-based actions. ISAIAH works to ensure that all people, regardless of class, race, ethnicity or religion, are involved in creating the region’s future and have an opportunity to benefit from the region’s growth.

  • Take Action Minnesota Education Fund

    TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund’s mission is to unite the power of diverse individuals, communities and organizations in active grassroots democracy that builds racial, social and economic justice.

  • Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light

    Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light works in partnership with faith and spiritual communities to build transformative power and bring the lights of people’s unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis.

  • Minnesota Environmental Justice Table

    The MN EJ Table’s mission is to build power to guarantee environmental justice across Minnesota. This is done through campaigns to fight against the systemic harm of frontline communities, by developing solutions that build the world we need, and through transformative education.

  • Detroit Action Education Fund

    Detroit Action Education Fund, is a grassroots, member-led, multigenerational, community-based organization fighting for racial and economic justice for working-class Detroiters. Their mission is to build up individuals and families to challenge the root cause of poverty, advance justice, and promote human development through neighborhood-driven community organizing and nonpartisan civic engagement.

  • CASA

    With over 155,000 lifetime members across 46 US states, CASA is a national powerhouse organization building power and improving the quality of life in working-class: Black, Latino/a/e, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities.

  • United Congregations of Metro East (UCM)

    United Congregations of Metro East (UCM) believes all citizens deserve to have a voice in the decisions that affect the quality of their lives. UCM’s coalition of congregations transcend the divisive barriers of race, economic status, religion, partisan politics, and geography to unite in a powerful voice for justice.

  • The People’s Lobby Education Institute

    The People’s Lobby is a membership-driven organization of people across the Chicago area that work together to build support for public policies and candidates – including people from our communities – that put gender and racial justice, the needs of people and the planet before the interests of big corporations and the very rich.

  • ONE Northside

    ONE Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities. They build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing.

  • lllinois People’s Action (IPA)

    Illinois People’s Action aims to empower everyday people and their congregations to become partners in the decision-making process on justice issues they identify. They use the principles of community organizing, leadership training and direct action to achieve this mission.

  • Georgia WAND

    Georgia WAND is an independent, grassroots, women-led organization that organizes front-line communities, especially people of color, women, and youth, to establish long-term solutions for social justice. Georgia WAND’s mission is to empower women to advocate for programs and policies that prioritize and address climate change, environmental racism and gender inequities.

  • Georgia Conservation Voters

    Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund’s mission is to organize and mobilize Georgians to advance climate and environmental justice through education, advocacy, and other forms of civic engagement.

  • Dialogue Collaborative

    Dialogue Collaborative works to inform, educate, and bridge the participation gap in civic engagement through fact-based research, analysis, and strategic, creative, and integrative communications strategies.

  • 9to5 Georgia

    9to5’s mission is to build a movement to achieve economic justice, by engaging directly affected women, particularly BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) women, to fight for better working and life conditions.

  • Florida Climate Equity Cohort

    The Florida Climate Equity Cohort is a group of 10 organizations across Florida working at the intersection of climate change and social, economic and racial justice.

  • Family Action Network Movement (FANM)

    Family Action Network Movement’s mission is to empower low to moderate income families socially, financially, and politically and to give them the tools to transform their communities.

  • Catalyst Miami

    Catalyst Miami aims to reform existing systems and introduce new people-powered systems. They provide both individual and shared paths to prosperity, enhance civic engagement through advocacy and leadership training, and increase the resilience of our environment and communities through people-led strategies.

  • Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute

    Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute’s goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. They seek to achieve their goals with 5 core beliefs that are rooted in the idea that Black voters matter, and that understanding, respecting and supporting local infrastructure is key.

  • Miami Climate Alliance

    The Miami Climate Alliance works for equity and resilience by activating community through strategic action, increasing understanding of climate change as a threat to all forms of justice, and building urgency around our shared community well-being.

  • Farmworker Association of Florida

    The Farmworker Association of Florida is a statewide, grassroots, community-based, non-profit, farmworker membership organization with over 10,000 Haitian, Hispanic, and African American members and five offices in the state of Florida, working for social and environmental justice with farmworkers.

  • Central Florida Jobs with Justice

    Central Florida Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor unions, community orgs, faith based and youth groups dedicated to building power for worker rights on the job and in the community.

  • Alianza Center

    Alianza Center serves the Puerto Rican and Hispanic communities of Florida by developing and promoting leadership around the environment, healthy living and civic engagement. Their work consistently focuses on sustainability, self-determination, and education.

  • Womxn From the Mountain

    Womxn from the Mountain was founded in 2018 by indigenous womxn, as an inclusive group for all women, trans, non-binary, two-spirit individuals, and diverse communities. Their mission is to empower holistic needs through equity, transformative education, and culturally responsive healing arts.

  • ProgressNow Colorado

    ProgressNow Colorado is the state’s largest and most effective multi-issue progressive  organization. They communicate ideals through high-quality video, cutting-edge digital marketing campaigns, and a full scope of storytelling for progressive values and issue-aligned organizations in Colorado.

  • Tó Nizhóní Àní (TNA)

    Tó Nizhóní Àní’s mission is to protect the water of Black Mesa from industry use and waste. They work to bring power back to our Indigenous communities impacted by coal. Their work is rooted in protecting water—Tó bee iiná. Water is life.

States Where Grantees Are Working on Just Transition for Workers