Deadline: 27-Oct-22
Tides Foundation is excited to announce the Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the Frontline Justice Fund’s (FJF) fall 2022 grantmaking cycle.
Tides Frontline Justice Fund is designed to protect, repair, and prepare communities to confront environmental and climate legal battles in the short to long term against some of the biggest and baddest actors in history.
Launched in 2022, the Tides Foundation Frontline Justice Fund (FJF) provides grants to groups representing communities who are living with and fighting against toxic pollution, the fallout from climate disasters, and the looming threat of new and expanding oil pipelines, mines, deadly petrochemical plants, and other dangerous and destructive projects.
In concert with public mobilization, leveraging the power of the law with highly impacted community-based plaintiffs, is by far the most compelling pathway in advancing equitable environmental protections and safeguards.
By directing funding to under-resourced communities who are using legal advocacy to address environmental degradation and injustice, they can help to secure the rights of people and nature and create durable and impactful systemic change so that all can thrive.
Funding Information
- Grant amounts: The Frontline Justice Fund will grant a total of up to $4M
- Grants will fall in the range of $25K-$150K
- At least 30% of the total number of grants will be two-year commitments, paid either in one installment or in two annual installments at the grantee’s discretion
Eligibility Criteria
- What they are looking for:
- Groups engaged in, or anticipate engaging in, protracted legal or regulatory actions to advance environmental and climate justice.
- Those who require rapid response or multi-year funding to cover non-legal costs with mounting and sustaining successful legal or regulatory advocacy campaigns. (i.e., organizing,communications, technical expertise, capacity building, etc.)
- Groups representing Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and/or low-income frontline communities most impacted by environmental harm, racism, and injustice.
- Communities where resources will have a direct impact on the frontlines. These are communities most impacted by environmental harms, with broader implications in the fight for environmental and climate justice.
- Priority consideration will be given to:
- Geographic Considerations: FJF will invest in chronically underfunded regions, especially the Southeast, Gulf South/TX, and Appalachia/the Ohio River Valley. While groups across the country are encouraged to apply, at least 75% of funding in this round will be allocated to these regions.
- Issue focus: While FJF remains committed to funding across a broad range of environmental justice issues, for this round they are prioritizing support to groups that are engaged in (or anticipate engaging in) legal or regulatory actions designed to fight existing or proposed extractive industry infrastructure projects that threaten the health, safety, and well-being of frontline communities (e.g., pipelines, oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining).
- Grassroots and frontline organizations with climate/environmental program budgets under or close to $2 million.
What the Frontline Justice Fund does not fund:
- Work or organizations outside of the United States
- Projects inconsistent with a legitimate charitable purpose and applicable law, including any political campaign intervention or impermissible private benefit
- Projects inconsistent with Tides vision, mission and approach, their organizational values, and THEY LEAD’s funding priorities
- Groups that currently have an open grant with FJF are not eligible to apply for thisround. They anticipate another RFP in early 2023.
For more information, visit https://www.tides.org/frontline-justice-fund/
