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About the Climate Program
The DR Fund’s Climate Program aims to support and sustain social movement leadership advancing bold, science-based equitable climate and clean energy solutions. We seek to fund organizing efforts run by and serving disproportionately affected communities to address intersecting climate, gender, economic, and racial justice inequities. We also seek to foster greater civic engagement through deeply relational approaches; expand movements to keep coal, oil, and gas in the ground; and accelerate regional transitions to affordable clean energy. This program is particularly invested in under-funded constituencies within the South and Southwest, with an emphasis on the Gulf Coast and Permian basin regions.
If we are to truly meet this moment, the economic transition that we are witnessing as we shift to a green economy must be done in concert with communities, not imposed on them.
William J. Barber III, climate activist