The Climate Justice Resilience Fund has invited applications for their grants scheme aimed at supporting community-led solutions for climate resilience. Interested organisations or individuals should send Letters of inquiry indicating how a funding request aligns with the priorities of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund and the letters of inquiry should target at least one of the 5 pillars of the organisation's focus of work.

CJRF priorities for the grant is given to organisations aligning with certain criteria: 

1. Operations: Organizations that are registered with the local or national government as a nonprofit organization and have an annual budget greater than $500,000 USD.
   
2. Fit: Organisations that are working with or regranting to grassroots organizations and focus on issue areas that overlap with CJRF project entry points.
3. Geography: Organizations that operate in one or more of CJRF’s priority geographies: Alaska, northern Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Orissa.
4. Organisations that promote knowledge exchange and capacity building across the CJRF regions.
5. Organisations that advocate for global climate finance policies and programs that benefit women, youth, or indigenous peoples, with emphasis on adaptation.

Last date for Letters of enquiry due for January consideration - Dec 21 2018

Grants selected for full proposal development - Jan 2019

Funding decisions for invited proposals - May 2019

CJRF promotes community-led, rights-based approaches to adaptation and resilience-building. To that end CJRF support flows to five “pillars” of work:

1. Advocacy
2. Access to Information
3. Local Initiatives
4. Movement Infrastructure
5. Leadership Development

The grant applicants must make sure that their work or proposal includes at least one of these 5 pillars.

Interested individuals and organisations can read more about instructions for the Letter of Inquiry here and completed  Letters of inquiry may be submitted to [email protected].

"The Climate Justice Resilience Fund is a grantmaking initiative dedicated to helping women, youth, and indigenous peoples create and share their own solutions for resilience. They target their initiatives in the most sensitive areas as they believe that lasting climate resilience must start with those communities first hit by climate change. We help communities reduce risks, manage shocks, rebound, and continue charting a path to sustainable development. 

The Climate Justice Resilience Fund was created in 2016 through a grant from the Oak Foundation. It is a project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity registered in the United States. In 2017, the Kendeda Fund became CJRF’s second member foundation. They welcome funding partners who are willing to share their commitment to addressing climate change by giving voice and power to women, youth, and indigenous communities.