Just Transitions to Advance Social and Ecological Justice

CS Fund is a nonprofit family foundation dedicated to creating an equitable democracy and a just transition to a regenerative economy and food system. CSF addresses critical, under-resourced issues; contends with root causes of problems; and seeks systemic solutions. They practice values-aligned grantmaking and investing and serve as a partner and resource to their grantees. As a small foundation, they strive to educate and organize other funders to invest in critical strategies and organizations, and bring their institutional voices together to advocate for important issues related to their grantmaking.

The Just Transitions program will employ a grantmaking praxis that’s both wide and deep. Wide includes regional/national/multinational movement networks that are directly trusted by and accountable to communities, and deep are frontline/grassroots organizations that are resisting the current system and reducing its harms, as well as creating systems that live into liberated futures. This program will be forward thinking and evolve over time. They will use an adaptive approach to learning, evaluation and planning, including participatory evaluation processes. Knowledge and data generated will be shared as a public good for the broader field.

• Non-profit public charity or a fiscally sponsored project based in the US or internationally
• Place-based work in one or multiple of the following geographic regions: Central America and the Caribbean, South Asia, the United States, and West Africa
• Work centers social and ecological justice
• Have an explicit anti-racist and/or anti-casteist focus, and actively work to protect and build power for cultures and identities that are historically marginalized in your region
• Your organization is directly accountable to communities where you work, with active feedback to allow for critique, learning, and adaptation of your work