Women’s Environmental Leadership Fund Grant

Overview

_NOTE: Begin the process by completing the Partner With Us form on our website. Have an initial call with Tides staff to discuss your mission, program activities, needs, and timeline. Tides staff invite those eligible candidates who fit our current criteria to submit an application and select which cycle to be part of. Application is by invitation only and projects are onboarded in four periods annually.
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Women’s Environmental Leadership Fund

The Women’s Environmental Leadership Fund (WE LEAD) is a Tides Foundation environmental grantmaking initiative that elevates and invests in women and nonbinary leaders who are addressing the root causes of the climate crisis in communities of color, which are disproportionately impacted.

Power a Healthier Environment and Future

Living in a healthy community, safe from the harms of the climate crisis, is a basic human right. But unjust systems disproportionately place communities of color and other impacted communities in the path of environmental hazards, putting their safety and their families at risk.

Tides’ WE LEAD amplifies the impact of women environmental leaders committed to serving Black and Indigenous communities as they take on big polluters through local, community-based solutions.

Our Impact

We’re advancing climate justice through innovative environmental grantmaking to on-the-ground leaders.

Funding Priorities

Tides’ WE LEAD promotes a shift in power and resources to those making a tangible impact on the ground: Women and other underrepresented genders taking on big polluters through local, community-based action.

Leadership

WE LEAD elevates environmental leadership by those who are familiar with the communities most impacted — including Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color — and directs funding to organizations that intentionally sustain, grow, and heal women’s leadership.

Environmental Justice

Tides is intentional about building a broader and more inclusive movement, prioritizing funding for organizations leading work at the intersection of racial, gender, and environmental justice.

Community

Our environmental grantmaking amplifies organizations that center the voices of community members historically and systematically burdened by climate change, where the organization is building community power and advancing advocacy efforts for long-term impact.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._