Giving Compass' Take:
- Haleluya Hadero discusses how Donors of Color Network is advocating for more transparency and diversity in climate funding, asking top donors to pledge 30% of their funding to BIPOC-led organizations.
- How can environmental justice funders actively work to improve racial diversity in their climate grantee pool?
- Learn more about why environmental justice funders need to invest in BIPOC-led groups.
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Efforts to increase how much philanthropic funding goes to minority-led environmental organizations are gaining momentum, with one group’s push for transparency from the nation’s top climate donors drawing big-name support.
For months, Donors of Color Network, a philanthropic group dedicated to funding racial equity efforts, has asked the top 40 climate funders to disclose what percentage of their funding during the past two years went to organizations led by Black, Indigenous, Latino, and other racial minorities, and pledge at least 30% of their climate donations to such groups.
On Thursday, two of them — the California-based William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Boston-based Barr Foundation — released data that shows 10% of their climate funding went to minority-led environmental justice groups. That number was 31% at the New York-based JPB Foundation, another top donor.
With those announcements, five of the top 40 donors have released their data from the last two years, along with another nine smaller funders. Donors of Color says four of the top 40 donors — and a dozen other foundations — have signed its pledge, agreeing to meet the 30% minimum the group has set and release their funding data.
Read the full article about diverse climate funding by Haleluya Hadero at Associated Press.