Fund for Frontline Power
Fund for Frontline Power (housed at The Solutions Project)
A 100% grassroots-governed fund created in 2021 by thirteen state, regional and national alliances, with thirteen grassroots leaders holding the governing positions and making the funding decisions. Supports grassroots-led climate solutions in frontline communities, an area where community-based participatory research on environmental and climate justice is routinely part of the work.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant amount or range is published on the fund's own site; the site refers all such questions to its listed contact address.
- Timing
- Varies by programmeNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No application deadline, cycle or open call is published on the fund's own site. Contact is by email to the address on the page.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- The fund's own site describes eligibility only in terms of frontline communities affected first and worst by environmental injustice and systemic racism, and grassroots-led climate solutions ready for investment; it publishes no formal eligibility criteria, 501(c)(3) rule or open application. The fund is housed at The Solutions Project with coordination by the People's Climate Innovation Center, and the site directs all inquiries about grant sizes, procedures, deadlines and criteria to info@fundforfrontlinepower.org. A university is not the applicant; a social work researcher would partner wit
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- climate justice · environmental justice · frontline communities · grassroots governance
- Apply at
- https://www.fundforfrontlinepower.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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