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Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund)

Website:

www.hivefund.org
Location:

Durham, NC
Type:

Environmental Advocacy Organization
Fiscal Sponsor:

Windward Fund
Formation:

2019
Co-Directors:

Melanie Allen
Erin Rogers

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The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund) is an organization that connects larger funders to local organizations that directly impact communities and regions. 1

The Hive Fund opposes fossil fuels, natural gas, new highway construction, and building additional pipelines. The Hive Fund wants carbon emissions cut to half of 2021 levels by 2030. In addition to funding left-leaning environmental causes, the Hive Fund has given grant money to voter registration and voter education groups to promote the organization’s environmentalist agenda. 2

History

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice was founded in 2019 to financially assist groups that are led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander women in the South. 3 The Hive Fund claims that almost 40 percent of U.S. climate pollution comes from Texas and the Southeast. 4 The Hive Fund was created to connect funders to local groups that work on left-leaning environmental issues. 5

Positions

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice provides funding to groups in local communities that are against fossil fuels, natural gas, and any carbon emissions. 6 The Hive Fund seeks to strengthen multi-racial activist groups, promote equity in fighting global warming, fund voter registration efforts to build environmental coalitions, and fund comedians and artists to change cultural norms, policies, and civil systems. 7

Through funding, the Hive Fund is supporting grantees that are targeting specific oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities to stop construction or expansion. 8 The Hive Fund advocates ending the construction of new gas pipelines. 9 The Hive Fund seeks to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and to net-negative by mid-century. 10 Through local groups, the Hive Fund has fought against highway expansion in Houston, Texas; pipeline expansion in Virginia and North Carolina; and funded many voter education and voter registration efforts seeking to recruit future environmentalist voters. 11

Finances

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice has given more than $57 million in grant money since 2020 with at least 85 percent of funding going to organizations located in the South. 12 The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice is fiscally sponsored by the Windward Fund, a group funded by Arabella Advisors. 13 The Hive Fund granted $20 million in 2023 and is attempting to double the amount by 2025. 14

Funders

Funders for Climate and Gender Justice have included the Ballmer Group, the Bezos Earth Fund, the Chockstone Fund, the Clara Lionel Foundation, the Climate Imperative Foundation, the ClimateWorks Foundation, the David Rockefeller Fund, the Foundation CHANEL, Gay for Giving, Gelman Giving, the Glickman Family Foundation, the Imago Dei Fund, the Kresge Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Oak Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Resourcing Justice Fund, the Silo Redistribution Fund, the Skyline Foundation, the Sobrato Philanthropies, the JPB Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Zegar Family Foundation. 15

Grantees

According to its 2023 Annual Report, the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice has funded 36 organizations in Texas, 18 in North Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 13 in Louisiana, three in South Carolina, and one each in Alabama and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It plans future projects in Mississippi and Puerto Rico. 16

The Hive Fund has spent more than $600,000 on consultants to provide stress relief to manage any physical, cyber, or psychological bullying toward environmental groups for wellbeing and to transform perceived systems of white supremacy and misogyny. 17

The Hive Fund raised money to supplement and attempt to steer federal environmental funding from President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to left-of-center environmental groups in ten targeted zones in the South. 18 In 2023, priority zones included Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, and rural North Carolina. 19

Texas

In Texas, the Hive Fund has provided grants to Air Alliance Houston; ACTS (Achieving Community Tasks Successfully); Bayou City Waterkeeper, the BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund; the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice; the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe; Chispa Texas, the Clean Energy Fund of Texas; the Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience; the Commission Shift; Connective; Deceleration; the East Harris County Empowerment Council; For the Greater Good; Galvanize USA; the Houston Climate Justice Museum and Cultural Center; Houston in Action; the Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend; the Jolt Initiative; LINK Houston; the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund; the MOVE Texas Civil Fund; the Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council; the Organizers Institute South and West Industrial Areas Foundation; Radical Registrars; Solar United Neighbors; the South Texas Human Rights Center; the Texas Climate Jobs Project; Texas for All; the Texas Freedom Network Fund’s Texas Rising; the Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute; the Campaign to Block New Markets for Oil and Gas; Trucha; Vecinos para el Blenestar de la Comunidad Costera; and West Street Recovery. 20

North Carolina

In North Carolina, the Hive Fund has provided funding and support to A Better Chance A Better Community, 7 Directions of Service, Blueprint North Carolina, the Center for Energy Education, Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy Green, the Environmental Justice Community Action Network, the Franklinton Center at Bricks, Grounded Possibilities, Kinston Teens, the New North Carolina Project Foundation, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, the North Carolina Black Alliance, the North Carolina Energy Fund, the North Carolina Climate Justice Network, REACH (Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help), the RedTailed Hawk Collective, Siembra NC, Sol Nation, and We Are Down Home. 21

Louisiana

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice has funded the following groups in Louisiana: the Alliance for Affordable Energy, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, the Electoral Collective, Finance New Orleans, Healthy Gulf, the Foundation for Louisiana, Housing NOLA, the Institute for Market Transformation, Louisiana Against False Solutions, the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, RISE St. James, Taproot Earth, the Descendants Project, VAYLA New Orleans, and The Vessel Project of Louisiana. 22

Additional Grants

Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice has provided grants to EnerWealth Solutions, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, the New Alpha Community Development Corporation, Black Voters Matter, the Black Male Voter Project Education Fund, the Partnership for Southern Equity, and Organized Uplifting Resources and Strategies. 23

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice has partnered with One Voice in Mississippi. 24

References

  1. “About Us.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/about.
  2. “About Us.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/about.
  3. “About Us.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/about.
  4. “Frequently Asked Questions.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/faq.
  5. “About Us.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/about.
  6. “Our Values.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/our-values.
  7. “Our Values.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/our-values.
  8. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf.
  9. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf.
  10. Welch, Kaniqua. “Q&A: Hive Fund Share How An Equity-Focused Intermediary is Working to Advance Climate Justice in the South.” Kresge Foundation. February 10, 2021. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://kresge.org/news-views/qa-hive-fund-shares-how-an-equity-focus-intermediary-is-working-to-advance-climate-justice-in-the-south/.
  11. Welch, Kaniqua. “Q&A: Hive Fund Share How An Equity-Focused Intermediary is Working to Advance Climate Justice in the South.” Kresge Foundation. February 10, 2021. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://kresge.org/news-views/qa-hive-fund-shares-how-an-equity-focus-intermediary-is-working-to-advance-climate-justice-in-the-south/; “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf; “Atlantic Coast Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-atlantic-coast.
  12. “Frequently Asked Questions.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/faq; “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf.
  13.  “How the Hive Fund is Supporting a Climate Movement That Works for All.” Arabella Advisors. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://www.arabellaadvisors.com/blog/how-the-hive-fund-is-supporting-a-climate-movement-that-works-for-all/; “Fiscal Sponsorship.” Arabella Advisors. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://www.arabellaadvisors.com/expertise/fiscal-sponsorship/.
  14. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf
  15. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf; Brown, Daelin. “Healing the Frontlines of Racial, Climate, and Gender Injustice.” Nonprofit Quarterly. August 10, 2023. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/healing-the-frontlines-of-racial-climate-and-gender-injustice/.
  16. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf.
  17. “Impact Report 2023.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6d29ecf8d59d00010ff612/t/65820ced167828252b18b4f0/1703021818790/Hive+Fund+Impact+Report+2023_DIGITAL.pdf.
  18. “IRA Climate Justice Zones.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/ira-zones.
  19. “IRA Climate Justice Zones.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/ira-zones.
  20. “Gulf South Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-gulf-south.
  21. “Atlantic Coast Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-atlantic-coast.
  22. “Gulf South Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-gulf-south.
  23. “Atlantic Coast Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-atlantic-coast.
  24. “Gulf South Grantmaking.” Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. Accessed March 16, 2024. https://hivefund.org/grantees-gulf-south.
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Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund)


Durham, NC