Dear John,

The movement needs your help. 

Would you share this critical opinion piece by Hidden Leaf Foundation Executive Director, Supriya Lopez Pillai, with your networks today?

This story demonstrates how investing early and meaningfully, in alignment with transformative grantmaking can be the most impactful way to address the climate crisis for philanthropy. 

Your support will move us toward a needed funding shift that must be widely adopted by philanthropy so that real climate solutions led by the frontlines can be scaled and replicated by the hundreds of thousands! These solutions will both reduce emissions AND address the inequity and injustice created and deepened by the dirty energy industry since its inception. Here’s an example of one community owned renewable energy project making a big difference!

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Hidden Leaf Foundation ED says philanthropy’s most effective way to address the  climate crisis is to center investments/decision-making w/ those closest to the problem & closest to the solutions, fund early/big now. http://bit.ly/434XnBT #ReinvestInOurPower #ClimateJustice

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Hidden Leaf Foundation Exec Dir, Supriya Lopez Pillai, makes a compelling argument for philanthropy to consider as they set up their investments and grantmaking strategies on climate: “Our concentrations of wealth and power, and the ways our endowments have been traditionally invested, have been at the expense of those who today are on the front lines of the climate crisis: Indigenous, Black, working class and people of color communities. But we can alter this trajectory by heeding the calls of environmental justice communities and directly supporting their solutions.” Learn how by reading her opinion piece in Inside Philanthropy http://bit.ly/434XnBT #ReinvestInOurPower #ClimateJustice #EarthDayIsEveryDay

With gratitude, 

Monica Atkins, Bineshi Albert, Marion Gee

Co-Executive Directors

Climate Justice Alliance