Building the Bigger We
Bridging Movement Across Economic Sectors, Issues, and Geography
Over the last near-decade, Climate Justice Alliance has helped to build and coordinate movement formations that respond to frontline organizations’ needs and elevate their work to Fight the Bad, Change the Rules, Build the New, Change the Story, and Move the Money.
Communicating Our Power (CommOp)
CommOP is a communications fellowship program, launched in 2021, jointly led by Climate Justice Alliance, Center for Story-based Strategy, and The Solutions Project. The program supports 20 frontline organizations to integrate a full-time communications fellow, and will provide resources, equipment and tools, training, and technical assistance. CommOP builds collective narrative capacity and skills to communicate frontline communities’ bold, solution-centric visions for climate justice and Just Transitions to Regenerative Economies.
It Takes Roots
It Takes Roots (ITR) is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations, comprised of Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance. Rooted in frontline community wisdom, place-based solutions, translocal organizing and deep democracy, ITR, which emerged as a collective force in 2014, shows up in rapid response at strategic direct actions; develops narrative power through aligning many voices in support of struggles across issues; and elevates the leadership of the radical grassroots organizing sector.
Green New Deal Network (GNDN)
GNDN, which began in 2019, is a cross-movement formation which brings together 15 movement partners from frontline, youth, labor, electoral, and environmental groups, and other collaborators to develop and move Green New Deal strategies on a state and federal level. GNDN partners with frontline organizations to carry out its three-pronged strategy focused on narrative change, coalition building, and electoral engagement. Climate Justice Alliance was among the GNDN founding organizations and is part of the national Coordinating Team.
Creative Wildfire
Creative Wildfire is a collaborative call to collective action from frontline communities, represented by the Climate Justice Alliance, Movement Generation, and New Economy Coalition. Cultural workers have an important role in strategizing, visioning, creating the Just Transition. Our work is to change the narrative, amplify transformative frameworks from OUR communities, and inspire others to resist a return to normal by reinvesting in community power.
United Frontline Table (UFT)
UFT is a formation of 15 frontline groups, grassroots alliances, and movement support organizations who come together to align frontline policy positioning and collective long-term visioning and action toward Just Transitions to Regenerative Economies. Through A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, the UFT’s policy and organizing tool, the United Frontline Table focuses on translocal organizing and policy shifts that center frontline communities. The UFT, which began in 2019, is jointly coordinated by Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, People’s Action, and Right to the City Alliance.
North American Geoengineering Working Group (NAGWG)
NAGWG is a group of North American and international allies, convened by Climate Justice Alliance since 2019, who share information and resources; collectively analyze the financing, promotion, and policy presence of geoengineering; and develop strategies against geoengineering false climate solutions, also known as technofixes. The working group holds both CJA members and non-members who were strategically recruited for the knowledge and experience they bring to the subject.
Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative (REO)
REO is a collaborative group of allied domestic and international progressive funders organizing in alignment with social movements toward systemic change to regenerative economies. Movement-led, REO looks to shift philanthropy to support locally-rooted Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Workingclass-led transnational movements. Climate Justice Alliance was among the founders of REO, which grew out of the It Takes Roots Funder Support Circle and started in 2018.
Fund for Frontline Power (F4FP)
F4FP is a new, autonomous fund, fully governed by grassroots leaders to support frontline-led climate solutions. F4FP was initiated by a group of allied movement partners in response to disproportionate funding flowing from billionaires to big greens. It is both an exercise in collective governance of capital and a deconstructing and reconstructing experiment in how dollars flow. The process to launch the Fund for Frontline Power (forthcoming in 2022) is being stewarded by Climate Justice Alliance and The Solutions Project.
Reinvest in Our Power (RiOP)
RiOP is a collaborative vehicle aligning groups to address inequity and democratize wealth by moving capital and governance from the extractive economy to regenerative economy. The RiOP campaign looks to move money to land-based projects and non-extractive revolving loan funds that invest in projects owned/operated by frontline communities to build economic democracy rooted in ecological integrity. RiOP, housed at CJA since 2015, is coordinated by Climate Justice Alliance, Movement Generation, and New Economy Coalition.
Green New Deal Network (GNDN)
GNDN, which began in 2019, is a cross-movement formation which brings together 15 movement partners from frontline, youth, labor, electoral, and environmental groups, and other collaborators to develop and move Green New Deal strategies on a state and federal level. GNDN partners with frontline organizations to carry out its three-pronged strategy focused on narrative change, coalition building, and electoral engagement. Climate Justice Alliance was among the GNDN founding organizations and is part of the national Coordinating Team.
North American Geoengineering Working Group (NAGWG)
NAGWG is a group of North American and international allies, convened by Climate Justice Alliance since 2019, who share information and resources; collectively analyze the financing, promotion, and policy presence of geoengineering; and develop strategies against geoengineering false climate solutions, also known as technofixes. The working group holds both CJA members and non-members who were strategically recruited for the knowledge and experience they bring to the subject.
Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative (REO)
REO is a collaborative group of allied domestic and international progressive funders organizing in alignment with social movements toward systemic change to regenerative economies. Movement-led, REO looks to shift philanthropy to support locally-rooted Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Workingclass-led transnational movements. Climate Justice Alliance was among the founders of REO, which grew out of the It Takes Roots Funder Support Circle and started in 2018.
Reinvest in Our Power (RiOP)
RiOP is a collaborative vehicle aligning groups to address inequity and democratize wealth by moving capital and governance from the extractive economy to regenerative economy. The RiOP campaign looks to move money to land-based projects and non-extractive revolving loan funds that invest in projects owned/operated by frontline communities to build economic democracy rooted in ecological integrity. RiOP, housed at CJA since 2015, is coordinated by Climate Justice Alliance, Movement Generation, and New Economy Coalition.
United Frontline Table (UFT)
UFT is a formation of 15 frontline groups, grassroots alliances, and movement support organizations who come together to align frontline policy positioning and collective long-term visioning and action toward Just Transitions to Regenerative Economies. Through A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, the UFT’s policy and organizing tool, the United Frontline Table focuses on translocal organizing and policy shifts that center frontline communities. The UFT, which began in 2019, is jointly coordinated by Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, People’s Action, and Right to the City Alliance.
Fund for Frontline Power (F4FP)
F4FP is a new, autonomous fund, fully governed by grassroots leaders to support frontline-led climate solutions. F4FP was initiated by a group of allied movement partners in response to disproportionate funding flowing from billionaires to big greens. It is both an exercise in collective governance of capital and a deconstructing and reconstructing experiment in how dollars flow. The process to launch the Fund for Frontline Power (forthcoming in 2022) is being stewarded by Climate Justice Alliance and The Solutions Project.
