Hunger Strike for Climate Justice (HSCJ) is a grassroots campaign led by young adults. HSCJ held a 2-week hunger strike in front of the White House, pressuring our political leaders to pass bold legislation to rapidly decarbonize the economy and deliver climate justice.
ShutDownDC is a grassroots all-volunteer activist organization based in Washington D.C. Over the next several months, ShutDownDC will keep pressure on the political leaders, such as Joe Manchin, who stand in the way of climate action through disruptive protest and non-violent direct action.
CEF is nimble enough to seize outsized opportunities. We funded RISE, a youth-led advocacy group on the ground in Georgia, who reached 800,000 young voters of color, getting them registered and turning them out to vote in the historically important Senate runoff election!
Young Evangelicals for Climate Action is a youth-led project taking action to overcome the climate crisis as part of their religious practice. They are organizing local churches and Christian schools in D.C. area, featuring Christian tradition of song, liturgy, and pilgrimage.
Coalition for Sustainable Jobs (CSJ) is a bipartisan group spearheaded by the American Conservation Coalition and the Evangelical Environmental Network. CSJ contributed to the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act and will continue to push for binding climate legislation.
Extinction Rebellion NYC is growing their #TelltheTruth campaign, targeting NBC News and other news outlets. They are protesting climate silence and looking to mobilize large-scale protests during climate shocks, such as fires and hurricanes, reporting on the crises with the focus and urgency they deserve.
New York Communities for Change is a grassroots organization targeting the drivers of racial and economic inequality. They are conducting a targeted digital campaign in conjunction with a series of in-person protests. During highly visible climate shocks such as hurricanes and fires, they will protest media silence in coordination with XR NYC.
Extinction Rebellion DC launched a six-month pressure campaign and sustained protest, targeting news outlets in the Nation's Capital to Tell the Truth about the climate and ecological crisis.
The GYG Project is conducting multiple street protests in Accra, Ghana, targeting television stations, demanding that Ghanian broadcast media tell the truth about the climate emergency.
Climate 2025 provides infrastructure and capacity-building support to emerging movements and activates and amplifies an ecosystem of change-makers across the world. The project is specifically focused on expanding core service offering to US movements.
NooWorld, a global operating system built for activists and climate organizations to centralize and collaborate, will amplify climate campaigns and re-imagine climate activism in service to humanity everywhere, using new forms of regenerative social action and mutual aid.
The Climate Clock is a visual aid illustrating the time humanity has left to reach zero emissions and reverse the climate crisis. Simple, easily understood, and attention grabbing, the Climate Clock takes this critical climate deadline and elevates it into a global mission, becoming a visual statement ubiquitous with the “The Climate Emergency”.
Families for Future is a campaign and digital mobilizing platform intended to activate and make visible “an army” of alarmed parents and grandparents who are regularly taking action, on and off-line, to protect their children from fossil fuel pollution.
The Week is a psychologically brilliant campaign, consisting of a carefully planned and guided 3-session experience that supports participants through awareness and devastation, to energized inspiration, and finally to steadfast action and outreach to others.
Soil Centric is on a mission is to avert catastrophic climate change by empowering citizens to harness the power of regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration. CEF supported Soil Centric’s launch of the PathFinder Tool, which provides everyday citizens guidance on regenerative solutions.
Climate Rescue is a bold new approach to global climate campaigning, demanding that governments implement what is necessary to protect the world’s most vulnerable people and species. A coalition of community groups and people, pursuing stronger goals with more powerful strategies will need to coalesce to drive governments.
Rapid Climate Action Network (RCAN), provides pathways for feasible. emergency-speed climate action to practitioners and local governments. The Project is a communications research and development project, to pilot ways of communicating the full urgency of the climate emergency that inspire rather than turning people off and push local government staff and decision-makers to become empowered climate leaders.
Ocean Rebellion uses confrontative, actions and light projections to raise the alarm about the Climate Emergency and other threats to the ocean. CEF funding their organizing and actions in the lead up to and during COP.
Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is a non-profit organization that educates, inspires, and mobilizes Christians to advocate for actions and policies that honor God and protect the environment. EEN will host a music-inspired, candle-lit worship experience in Glasgow, Scotland throughout the period of COP 26.
Climate Call Up is a UK based startup launching a WWII-style poster and public awareness campaign in the run-up to COP26 that uses nostalgia and civic pride to motivate participation. It aims to radically boost awareness of the scale and urgency of the climate emergency, as well as reach people outside of the traditional climate movement, through its powerful framing.
Insulate Britain has launched a highly disciplined, direct action campaign in London, in the lead up to COP.
We are supporting the creation of a hard-hitting, science-based press kit, featuring climate scientist Professor Jason Box and his research on abrupt climate change. The press kits, including quotes, video, and B-roll, will be distributed to news outlets targeting business, youth, and policy audiences in the lead-up to and during COP 26, and then made available to the public.
Elected Officials for the Protection of America (EOPA) is the only national organization mobilizing veterans who are lawmakers on the climate emergency. Drawing connections between climate, water, food, refugees, and security, EOPA will educate, train, and mobilize federal lawmakers to declare climate emergency, and act accordingly.
Climate Emergency Now (CEN) is a project of United We Stand, a non-governmental agency associated with actor and activist Mark Ruffalo. The Project is a pressure campaign, primarily led by Indigenous activists, demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency and utilize all available powers to rapidly lead the decarbonization of our economy.
Climate Emergency Unit is a Canadian organization helping governments, churches, businesses, unions, and climate organizations enter “emergency mode” by offering a 4-point framework. CEU has already advised over 100 organizations. Our grant will help them scale up their impact.
The Climate Mobilization is developing a US based network of Climate Emergency Campaigners. They aim to grow their network, which already has participating groups in 30 states, and offer strategic coordination, training, communications, and digital support.
The Cleo Institute supported youth organizers who led the campaign to win a Climate Emergency Declaration in Miami in 2019. Now, Cleo’s high school activists are protesting the Miami Mayor and City Council to implement ultra-ambitious policies and treat climate like the emergency it is.
Extinction Rebellion Youth US is a diverse, decentralized group of youth from different regions of the country that uses direct action to fight for a livable future for the people and planet. They are targeting climate finance, including but not limited to big bank’s investments in the fossil fuel industry.
Treaty People’s Gathering was a deployment of 1,400 people to join the fight over building Line 3, a tar-sands pipeline that threatens Northern Minnesota’s waters. This deployment supported the Indigenous leaders and allied climate organizations who have been putting their bodies on the line in order to captivate the public’s attention.
Future Coalition is a network of over 100 youth-led climate organizations, who are focused on ending the fossil fuel industry by targeting the financiers and enablers of climate destruction through protest, disruptive action, and shareholder resolutions. Another key goal is to grow the core capacity of the youth movement, including by training 1,000 young people in organizing and direct action.
350 New Hampshire, a chapter of 350.org, demanded the shutdown of the Merrimack coal plant, the last active coal plant in New England. 18 were arrested during the protest, after being swarmed by over 40 police officers wearing riot gear.
Extinction Rebellion Montgomery County conducted a summer youth training program for local youth from primarily Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, resulting in youth-led coordination of the largest climate justice demonstration in the history of Montgomery County. 18 youth organizers built a model eco-village in the major Montgomery County thoroughfare, shutting it down and pressuring elected officials to take action on a Green New Deal.
Building off the “Cult of Oil” actions initiated in a previous 2019 grant from CEF, Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles (XRLA) began a new campaign series, “Drilling is Killing.” XRLA employs tactics such as banner drops, street art, and street theater to target local Los Angeles elected officials including the Mayor, calling on them to move forward immediately to prohibit oil and gas extraction.