Grantmaking

Sharing the Power Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations serving urban and rural communities that promote clean energy and address environmental challenges through a lens of fairness and equity.

2023 Sharing the Power Foundation Grant Awardees:
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Bridging the Gap in Virginia
Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR)
Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
Coalfield Development
Dreaming Out Loud
Hispanic Access Foundation
Kinfolk Community Inc.
Prairie Rivers Network
Happily Natural Day
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA)

2022 Sharing the Power Foundation Grant Awardees:
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GOODR
Appalachian Voices
Center for Coalfield Justice
HBCU Green Fund
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative

Grantmaking priorities

TOXIC CHEMICAL EXPOSURE

Heavy Metal Exposures
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Persistent Organic
Pollutant Exposures

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGYINFRASTRUCTURE

Lack of Solar in Urban Communities
Climate Resiliency
Lack of Access to EV Infrastructure
Food Inequities
Access to Broadband InternetTransportation Access Inequities
Lack of Energy Efficient Housing

ZERO WASTE & CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Reuse Solutions
Single-Use Product Pollution Waste Incineration and Landfilling

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

Addressing the climate crisis requires significant investments in clean and renewable energy infrastructure, smart growth and sustainable development.
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Sharing the Power Foundation contributes to causes that provide renewable energy access in vulnerable urban and rural communities, promote climate resiliency and mitigation, address food inequity and transportation inequity, and causes that improve housing quality, access, and energy efficiency.

ZERO WASTE & CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Post-consumer product waste, such as plastic pollution, is a global crisis causing public health and ecological challenges particularly for community members who reside in proximity to waste incineration, landfilling, and petrochemical extraction sites.
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To promote zero waste and a circular economy, Sharing the Power Foundation contributes to causes that reduce and eliminate waste materials at the source, develop reusable materials, strengthen material recovery processes to improve the recyclability of materials through recycled content strategies, eliminate the use of toxic substances in these materials, and require producers of the materials to steward their end of life. The Foundation also contributes to causes that address food waste, promote composting access, and advocate for divestment from waste incineration and landfilling.

Toxic Chemical Exposure

Access to clean air, water, and products is critical in stewarding healthy communities.

Sharing the Power Foundation contributes to causes that address exposures to heavy metals, air and water pollutants, and persistent organic pollutants. The Foundation also contributes to causes that advocate for the recognition of cumulative impacts.

investing in students

Diversifying the fields of sustainability and clean energy is critical to solving complex environmental challenges.

For this reason, we are making significant investments into HBCU students with a passion for environmental health, justice, and sustainability through our Foundation’s signature program, the Environmental Justice Ambassador Fellowship.

Fellowship

Grantee Spotlight

Goodr

Goodr leverages technology and logistics to reduce waste and eliminate hunger. Discover how we provide organizations with solutions that create impact.

We believe that hunger isn’t a scarcity issue. It’s a matter of logistics. Goodr was founded on the simple yet powerful idea that we need to feed more and waste less. What started as a local initiative to feed people experiencing food insecurity in Atlanta has grown into a national network with long-lasting impact.

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Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative

The mission of the VEJC is to build the health and wealth of communities of color, low income communities, and communities overburdened by pollution in Virginia by reducing the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards through educating, empowering, and mobilizing grassroots organizations and individuals to speak for themselves and through building an alliance to advocate for equitable policies and practices.

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Tennessee

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