Provided by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia has joined a nationwide coalition of more than 40 community foundations to launch the Community Foundation Climate Collaborative. The Collaborative is a coordinated effort aimed at helping local communities secure funding and more effectively respond to climate change.
The Collaborative will leverage community foundations’ deep frontline knowledge of local issues and long-standing relationships with nonprofit organizations to help direct the unprecedented infusion of federal, state, and private funding dedicated to climate projects across the country.
Further, the Collaborative will focus on:
- Promoting coordinated learning, research, and analysis on climate-related challenges and opportunities.
- Enabling innovation, creative problem solving, and replication of best practices.
- Supporting strategic partnerships and resource mobilization efforts focused on large climate funders and federal agencies.
- Facilitating joint action and advocacy including federal lobbying.
The effort will prioritize offering guidance and support to marginalized communities, which often bear the brunt of climate-related impacts but lack adequate resources and expertise to consistently secure governmental and philanthropic funding.
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia’s President and CEO Eileen Ellsworth said, “Since 2018, the Community Foundation has been investing in organizations that protect, restore, and improve our environment. We are excited to be joining over 40 community foundations from around the country in this national effort to identify key climate change issues that we can address collectively.”
CFNOVA joins the Hawai’i Community Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, the Adirondack Foundation, and many others in this effort. For more information and a full list of collaborative members, visit cfon.org/cfcc.
