Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ)
GGJ is an alliance of US-based grassroots organizing groups building power for working and poor people and communities of color.
GGJ focuses on bringing grassroots organizations into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment, and transformational leadership development, particularly for working and poor women and gender-oppressed people of color.
Grants
It Takes Roots
It Takes Roots—as a cross-sector alliance of alliances—is uniquely positioned to address the issues of environmental health and environmental justice. We are comprised of grassroots organizing groups leading innovative solutions, driven by the lived experience of environmental racism, resulting health impacts, and the catastrophic effects of climate change.
| Amount | $400,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2019-2022 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
General Operations
| Amount | $675,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017-2022 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
Frontline Delegation to COP26
| Amount | $50,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2021 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
Emergency Funding for COVID-19
This grant will help to support programming and general operations.
| Amount | $10,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2020 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
Feminist Organizing School for Funders (FOS for Funders)
During the FOS for Funders, the group will delve into the theoretical and historical intersections of patriarchy,
homophobia, transphobia, white supremacy, capitalism, and climate change; explore a vision of a
feminist future, including development of a feminist economy; and will support each other in the task of
bringing a feminist approach to our daily work within progressive philanthropy.
| Amount | $25,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2020 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Moving Philanthropy |
It Takes Roots Solidarity to Solutions (Sol2Sol)
It Takes Roots will convene the Solidarity to Solutions Week (parallel to the Global Climate Action Summit convened by California Governor Jerry Brown) to spotlight frontline community solutions to the interlinked crises of climate, economy, and democracy. Frontline community leaders from around the world will share and discuss place-based solutions that make the systemic connections among climate disaster survival, decarbonizing our energy systems outside of a market system, and other critical strategies for tackling the root causes of our global crises— such as Indigenous land rights, food sovereignty, zero waste, public transportation, ecosystem restoration, universal healthcare, worker rights, housing rights, racial and gender justice, as well as economic relocalization.
| Amount | $200,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2018 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
Travel to Fearless Cities Conference in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Support for travel to the Fearless Cities Conference in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
| Amount | $6,892 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance
This is a Call to Action for grassroots organizing forces co-convened by four national alliances utilizing an arc of narrative and action that leads to visionary opposition. We aim to strengthen grassroots forces to influence and build power with broader movement allies on intersectional issues, experiment with multi-sectoral collaborative campaigns, and root rapid response efforts in a long term organizing strategy for political, social, cultural, and economic power building.
| Amount | $200,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
Delegation to Honduras with Grassroots International
Support for members participation in the Grassroots International delegation in Honduras from February 25-March 5, 2017
| Amount | $2,208 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
EDGE Funders Alliance Just Giving Conference
Travel to the EDGE Funders Alliance Just Giving Conference
| Amount | $1,750 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
General Operations
| Amount | $200,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015-2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |
Delegation to World Social Forum
Travel to the World Social Forum in Tunisia
| Amount | $5,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
Road to Paris and Beyond
Prepare for the upcoming COP21 meeting in Paris
| Amount | $15,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
General Operations
| Amount | $200,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013-2014 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Movement Support Organization |