San Francisco, CA – Today, Mosaic, a national grantmaking initiative focused on building a bigger, more influential environmental movement, unveils a new slate of grant funding for 53 collaborative projects, benefiting 85+ co-applicants and 3,700+ organizations, to support the mobilizing capacity the environmental movement needs to ensure the effective implementation of historic federal climate laws
These landmark initiatives, including the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Justice 40, and 30x30 collectively present an unprecedented trillion-dollar opportunity to achieve significant environmental victories rapidly—including as much as 40% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by 2030 . Nearly two years into implementation, 2024 marks a critical moment for making the most of these climate laws. The moment is now for strategic support that bridges federal dollars to local communities.
“We know that adoption of these federal environmental laws is only the first step,” says Katie Robinson, Mosaic’s Director. “Reducing climate change and improving communities equitably requires that coalitions in communities are activated and engaged on a daily basis in the implementation of federal funds. We’re mobilizing urgently at all levels and engaging the full breadth of voices across the environmental movement to capitalize on these once-in-a-generation funding opportunities.”
A focal point of Mosaic’s 2024 grants is support for the development of five Regional Movement Mobilization Hubs. These hubs – situated in the Midwest, Gulf South, Central Appalachia, and Upper Rocky Mountains– are based in areas with significant greenhouse gas reduction potential. By mobilizing organizations and communities—through partnership activation, targeted capacity building, and curated communications—each hub will catalyze action now, while creating movement connection over the long-term.
Western Organization of Resource Councils , the lead project partner for the new Rocky Mountain Movement Mobilizing Hub, noted the importance of mobilization efforts for ensuring drawdown to local communities: "Especially in regions like ours that face political resistance and misinformation, there is great urgency to mobilize around extolling the benefits of federal funding opportunities like the IRA. These grants will help seize these opportunities, bring critical dollars to the table, hasten the transition to clean energy and bring communities the economic and environmental benefits they deserve. We will focus outreach efforts on clean energy funding opportunities in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming."
Additionally, Mosaic’s investments will equip a broad cross-section of environmental organizations with the necessary tools to implement federal climate laws and bolster the movement for the long term through the reinforcement of existing grantees. Mosaic’s funds will provide training and technical assistance to activate diverse constituencies, including youth, faith-based communities, health providers, veterans, and individuals new or newer to the movement.
National Partnership for New Americans, a continued Mosaic grantee partner, noted the importance of ensuring the breadth of voices are included in implementation: "We are striving to ensure that immigrants and refugees are fully included in implementing federal climate policy and programs. Support from Mosaic makes it possible for us to effectively equip immigrant and refugee-led organizations to advocate for equitable IRA/BIL implementation and to engage their communities in this work for lasting change."
Similarly, Mosaic grantee partner Common Defense highlighted: “Despite being on the frontlines of the climate crisis and the clean energy transition, veterans are often overlooked as a key constituency in the climate movement. With support from Mosaic, we are activating and training veterans to become movement leaders, help their communities secure federal funding for local clean energy development, and enter the clean energy workforce as hiring demand balloons amid the energy transition.”
Mosaic’s focus on mobilization emerged from two hallmarks of the initiative—the unparalleled strategic capacity of its Governance Assembly of field leaders and the initiative’s extensive outreach across the field. Strategy sessions amongst Mosaic’s Governance Assembly of field leaders and engagement with dozens of organizations and fellow funders, survey responses, and field webinars highlighted that, despite government and philanthropic support for implementing the IRA and related laws, their scope and scale necessitated greater infrastructure, particularly to support mobilization of interested but not yet actively participating people and organizations. Mosaic’s grants take account of investments to date and will provide expanded pathways to technical assistance and other resources that can enable organizations to engage alongside their existing work. Mosaic focused on filling these key gaps, with a focus in high-emission geographies, like in the Midwest and Plains, Gulf South, and Appalachia.
Mosaic’s Governance Assembly member and Executive Director of Alianza Nacional De Campesinas, Mily Trevino-Sauceda, highlighted: "2024 and 2025 are critical years for climate action. These grants are strategically tailored to bring federal funding to states and regions where it is needed, such as socially disadvantaged communities. Mosaic’s grant funds will bridge capacity gaps hindering effective implementation of crucial new federal laws, ensuring that communities across the country can effectively engage in opportunities."
"Mosaic is fueling the environmental movement's momentum across the country from the grassroots to the grass-tops. We will win through collaboration, mobilization, and strategic action. Our grantee partners are driving transformative change and taking on the biggest opportunities in the IRA and BIL for environmental progress together." says David Beckman, a member of Mosaic’s Governance Assembly and the President of the Pisces Foundation.
For more information and a full list of 2024 grantee partners, visit our website.
About Mosaic:
Mosaic is a national grantmaking initiative focused on building a stronger, more influential environmental movement capable of achieving population-level change and advancing collective environmental and justice outcomes. We invest in the missing field-wide connections and shared tools—like communications, data analytics, training, and large-scale collaborations—that are instrumental to the success of social movements. We are oriented around community and collaboration, not silos or single issues. And we seek to support activists and organizations reflecting the full breadth of the environmental movement, because it will take all to win.
Mosaic's work is driven by its unique Governance Assembly, which features leaders from environmental organizations from the full breadth of the environmental field. This gives Mosaic insights into the critical capacity gaps and opportunities for effective implementation of climate laws and other environmental challenges. Through our participatory funding model, we harness the shared insights of a diverse group of field leaders who select the most impactful projects to build the power to meet the pace and scale of change today. Learn more at mosaicmomentum.org.
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