Let’s mobilize that power to collectively demand that our funders, organizations, and the institutions we are connected to are not participating in old economies that are built upon human suffering and exploitation but rather on investments in thriving people and a thriving planet!
Jenny Brandt Archive
Defunding of the ECJ Communities Grants: The scale of what is being taken from communities nationwide
The actions of the Federal Government have caused harm. For grantees, this has in some cases led to them laying off staff, spending limited resources without reimbursement, and may even result in threatening an organizations’ existence. It has certainly eroded relationships built with communities over years. And life-saving measures that were going to be implemented will not.
Community-centric from the beginning: CCF training for Mountains and Plains EJ Council
Experts themselves, the EJ Council shared their experiences with funders who earned and lost their trust. Together, we came up with the Council’s values of solidarity and integrity, we imagined what success for the region would look like beyond the lifecycle of this grant, and we led a session about rest.
Justice 40 Initiative: An opportunity to right environmental injustice
We have an opportunity to address long-standing environmental injustices and redistribute wealth back into communities it has been taken from.