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Transportation & Transit Access and Affordability

Our Policy Accelerator team partners with grantees to advance transportation and transit access and affordability including school bus electrification and accessible charging infrastructure. This includes work on setting robust and ambitious clean energy targets for public transportation. Our work in this area also includes combating electric vehicle disinformation campaigns targeting 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 Transportation & Transit Access and Affordability

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  • Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)

    The mission of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is to build a diverse movement powerful enough to put our region on the path to climate stability, while using our proximity to the nation’s capital to inspire action in neighboring states, around the country, and across the world.

  • Virginia Organizing

    Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives.

  • Virginia Interfaith Power & Light

    Virginia Interfaith Power & Light collaborates among people of faith and conscience to grow healthy communities by advancing climate and environmental justice.

  • New Virginia Majority Education Fund (NVM EF)

    New Virginia Majority Education Fund (NVM EF), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organize in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • North Carolina Black Alliance

    The North Carolina Black Alliance addresses policy and economic issues to enhance black communities by developing and promoting systemic policy change as well as youth and leadership development.

  • Sol Nation

    Sol Nation’s vision is to create self-lead BIPOC communities who prioritizes black issues, establishes climate justice solutions, and provides the next generation with access to knowledge and resources, including school curricula with environmental justice standards.

  • Faith in Action Nevada

    Faith in Action Nevada is a nonpartisan, multi-faith organization that organizes and advocates for racial justice, economic justice, and an inclusive democracy.

  • Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)

    The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada was founded by local activists to build a more fair and just state that puts people and planet first. They organize with front line communities and directly impacted leaders for policy changes and community investments that improve the lives of Nevadans.

  • Chispa Nevada

    Chispa Nevada strengthens the voices of Latinx families to fight against climate change and for clean energy for a healthier future for us all. They are one of the only environmental programs truly engaged in traditional community organizing that builds the capacity of Latinx families to influence policymakers and pressure polluters to protect communities’ rights to clean air and water, healthy neighborhoods, and a safe climate for generations to come.

  • MN 350

    MN350 unites Minnesotans as part of a global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future 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.

  • Out for Justice, Inc.

    Out for Justice, Inc. believes that individuals impacted by the criminal justice system should be at the forefront of policy reform efforts that directly affect us, our families, and communities.

  • 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.

  • Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition

    The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition is a resolute, community-led group. Their mission is to supplant structural racism in public transit policy with structural change to attain equitable, reliable transit and greater environmental, social and economic justice for the Baltimore region.

  • 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.

  • New Georgia Project

    New Georgia Project’s mission is to build power with and increase the civic participation of the New Georgia Majority—Black, Latinx, AAPI, and young Georgians—and other historically marginalized communities through nonpartisan voter registration, organizing, and advocacy on the issues important to our communities.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Florida Immigrant Coaltion (FLIC)

    The Florida Immigrant Coalition is a multiracial, multiethnic, member-led coalition consisting of 80+ organizations whose mission is to grow the connection, capacity, and consciousness of communities to strengthen pro-immigrant power in Florida.

  • 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.

  • GreenLatinos

    GreenLatinos is a national non-profit for Latino leaders confronting national and local environmental issues in the Latino community. They envision a healthy and equitable society where communities of color are liberated from disproportionate environmental burdens.

  • Mi Familia Vota

    Mi Familia Vota is a national civic engagement non-profit organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through citizenship workshops, voter registration, and voter participation. Mi Familia Vota has operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, and Texas.

  • Chispa Arizona

    Chispa Arizona builds capacity of Latinx families to influence policymakers and pressure polluters to protect communities’ rights to clean air and water, healthy neighborhoods, and a safe climate for generations to come.

  • Arizona Coalition for Change

    Arizona Coalition for Change is a Black-led organization with a dynamic multicultural team that empowers everyday people to transform their community through building civic power, leadership development, and community collaboration. They advocate for lasting progressive public policies that change the dynamics for their communities by putting people first. They also work to develop and uplift voices in their communities to take on the United State’s most pressing issues.

States Where Grantees Are Working on Transportation & Transit Access and Affordability