Windward Fund uses a fiscal sponsorship model to incubate nonprofit projects on the frontlines of climate crisis mitigation and environmental conservation efforts. We provide projects with necessary support to run efficiently and achieve their environmental and social impact goals. Fiscal sponsorship, a common philanthropic practice, allows Windward to serve as a shared operational home to nonprofits, enabling them to pursue their programmatic missions while Windward provides administrative support. Explore a sampling of projects hosted at Windward Fund below.
Collectrify operates a trust-based fund that demonstrates how decarbonization can advance both climate goals and environmental justice through democratic processes and frontline leadership. Collectrify supports grassroots and base-building organizations and their leaders through direct funding, technical assistance, and a national Learning Community Collaboratory Network—a unique forum where they provide a dedicated space for funders and community practitioners to collaboratively build trust, foster community, and engage in mutual learning. Collectrify’s funding model is designed to ensure housing and energy affordability for everyone because they support community-driven climate solutions that advance equitable building electrification at scale.
Hive Fund raises funds and makes grants to groups working to accelerate the transition from dirty to clean energy in ways that center justice, redistribute power, and create healthier, safer, and more prosperous communities. Its grantmaking is focused in the US South—a region whose high pollution levels, abundant clean energy opportunities, and legacy of environmental justice leadership make it critical for global climate progress. Hive Fund’s grant dollars go to organizations led by impactful leaders—nearly three quarters of them Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming people—that have historically been overlooked and undervalued by philanthropy.
The Global Methane Hub is implementing strategies around the globe that will lead to systemic reductions in methane emissions. Through collaboration with researchers, local and federal governments, and non-governmental organizations, the Global Methane Hub is establishing long-term, cost-effective solutions to methane mitigation. With a focus on the energy, agricultural, and waste management sectors, the initiative aggregates data and leverages funds to promote solutions that drive meaningful change and lasting impact.
Farm to Fork works to ensure our food is healthy, nutritious, sustainably grown, equitably produced, delicious, and accessible to all. Farm to Fork serves as a bridge between the previously disconnected sectors within the food movement to help foster a community and establish a common purpose. Since its inception, Farm to Fork has built a cohort of over 140 organizations across the labor, equity, health, nutrition, anti-hunger, and sustainable agriculture communities to enable a stronger, unified movement advocating for a more progressive national food system.
The Fund to Build Grassroots Power provides flexible support to strengthen and grow the capacity and power of members and affiliates of four national grassroots networks, with the goal of advancing environmental and climate justice in the United States. The Fund to Build Grassroots Power awards grants to organizations that are led by constituencies who have been historically suppressed and who work on a variety of issues, such as environmental and climate justice, farmworker rights, and economic security.
Resilient Foundation is a nonprofit facilitating the funding and production of visionary storytelling that drives collective action toward a resilient world. Resilient unites a global network consisting of visionary impact funders, award-winning storytellers, and inspiring changemakers. Together, this network leverages the transformative power of storytelling to bridge knowledge, empathy, and action gaps.
Heartland Fund is the first funding collaborative built to support and connect local organizations working for progress across diverse communities in rural areas and small cities. The fund believes our country is stronger when we bridge across racial, economic, and geographic differences to drive solutions. Heartland invests in permanent civic engagement, issue advocacy, community organizing infrastructure, and sustainable urban-rural coalitions. In addition to grantmaking, Heartland also supports rural efforts through convening, research, and communications. Together, the project is building a stronger democracy, healthy climate, and shared prosperity.
The Safer Chemistry Impact Fund works to advance science-based, data-driven solutions to systematically eliminate hazardous chemicals and replace them with verified safer alternatives. Through the deployment of high-impact capital, the fund aims to positively disrupt entrenched systems of hazardous chemical use. The fund is the first to address chemical pollution, one of three planetary crises, alongside climate change and biodiversity. As it works across industry sectors, the fund will improve human and environmental impacts in support of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and national and international development goals.
