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Fiscal Hosting That Empowers Your Mission
Team up with Climate Justice Hive:
Climate Justice Hive is more than just a fiscal sponsor—we’re a fiscal host—we’re your ally in driving impactful, community-centered change.
Our Model A Fiscal Hosting approach provides grassroots teams, community-led organizations, and social justice advocates with the legal and administrative support they need to focus on what matters: their mission.
What is Fiscal Hosting?
Fiscal hosting is like having a legal home for your project without needing to establish a separate nonprofit. With Climate Justice Hive as your host, your project becomes part of a more extensive non-profit and tax-exempt community-based operation, allowing you access to back-office support, legal protections, a helpful community, and other necessities to operate effectively.
What is Model A Fiscal Hosting?
Our Model A approach means your project becomes a Climate Justice Hive Member Program. Here’s what you get:
– Legal Home: Your project operates under our 501(c)(3) status, giving you access to essential legal protections and compliance support.
– Back-Office Infrastructure: We handle tax filings, regulatory compliance, financial management, donation management, payroll, and more.
– Autonomy: While we provide the infrastructure, your project retains strategic and programmatic control, including the freedom to exit the relationship on your terms.
– Accompaniment: Each month, your project will receive dedicated “office hours” with our team, allowing you to focus on topics of your choice. You can use this time to explore areas such as governance models, leadership development, resource mobilization strategies, grant prospecting, writing, reporting, and more. We can connect you with experts and resources within our network if you need additional support beyond your allotted time.
Why Choose Climate Justice Hive?
Our fiscal hosting model is built on equitable and inclusive resource-sharing principles, guided by the Social Impact Commons. We strive to create a supportive environment where your mission thrives.
– Mission Alignment: We host projects that share our commitment to climate justice, ensuring our resources and efforts are fully aligned with the broader movement for social and environmental change.
– Inclusive / Collaborative Community: Join a network of like-minded activists, organizers, and projects. Share resources, learn together, and amplify each other’s impact.
– Transparent & Accessible: We make sure that our policies and processes are clear and accessible, empowering you to understand and navigate the fiscal sponsorship landscape.
The Climate Justice Hive is a member of Social Impact Commons, a community of fiscal sponsors, projects, funders and other ally organizations interested in advancing equity and effectiveness in the nonprofit sector through fiscal sponsorship.
Get Started with Climate Justice Hive
Are you ready to give your project the support it deserves? Connect with us to learn more about how our fiscal hosting can elevate your work and expand your impact.
Let’s build a just, collaborative, and flourishing society together.
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Project Profiles
Arena Focus & Communities Served
We focus on communities from low-income and underserved communities like mobile home parks, senior living communities, and low income housing.
Key Activities
5-week training class
The Impact of Funding
“We have been able to teach and better prepare hundreds of people from the community.”
Project Mission
At Community Led Preparedness Training for Climate Crisis (CPT), we are dedicated to empowering communities to effectively respond to the challenges posed by the climate crisis. Co-founded in Boulder, CO, by Isabel Sanchez and Angela Ortiz, we are committed to equipping individuals, particularly those in low-income and mobile home communities, with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate and mitigate the impacts of climate emergencies.
In our fourth year of operation, we remain steadfast in our mission to provide accessible training that fosters resilience, preparedness, and community service. Through our tailored classes, we aim to instill a sense of calm and readiness amidst adversity, empowering individuals to not only protect themselves but also to extend a helping hand to their neighbors in times of need.
At CPT, we believe that by fostering a culture of preparedness and community solidarity, we can build stronger, more resilient societies capable of confronting the challenges posed by the climate crisis.
Project Mission
The Nature Connection Network’s mission is to encourage and support the healthy growth of nature connection organizations and their leaders in building resilient, regenerative and just communities.
Arena Focus & Communities Served
We endeavor to create learning spaces and share resources to support the work of mission-aligned nature-based schools and programs, mostly in North America.
Key Activities
We host topical webinars and lightly facilitated online conversations, a community list serve and other resources.
Impacts from Funding
Our annual in-person Nature Connection Leadership Conference was a highlight for many leaders in the sector. After COVID-19, we brought the conference online, which offered an opportunity for folks – both presenters and participants – to join without the expense and environmental impact of travel. We hope to convene in person again when the time is right, in the meantime our efforts are focused on deepening supportive relationships across the sector and continuous communal learning.
Project Mission
To foster a more just and equitable Boulder County, the mission of the CJC is to understand collective needs and support community based groups and organizations working to minimize the impacts of climate change for underrepresented communities.
Arena Focus & Communities Served
The Climate Justice Collaborative of Boulder County (CJC) strengthens and supports existing movements and organizations active throughout Boulder County, organizing and building a long-term countywide foundation for sustained action toward climate justice led by communities disproportionately impacted by climate change. The CJC develops and strengthens networking infrastructure between local government, Non-Governmental Organizations, Philanthropists, Academia, Faith-Based Congregations, and especially Grassroots and Frontline-led community groups to unite disparate efforts for more effective, coordinated, collaborative action and climate justice leadership development.
Key Activities
Community Leadership, Institutional Support and Frontline Climate Justice Compass
Impacts from Funding
Worked with community organizers to compile an extensive collection of information regarding the Valmont Power Station Coal Ash Corrective Measures to share through a community website in conjunction with The Boulder Watershed Collective.
Project Mission
The Center for Knowledge, Materials, and Materiality (KaMM Center) is a non-profit dedicated to research, public history, and digital humanities. We believe that knowledge is shaped by everyday life, rooted in place, and carried through materials, skills, and memory. Our work focuses on the region north of the Siwaliks, exploring how people have made and shared knowledge through materials, skills, and everyday practices.
Arena Focus & Communities Served
Grounded in Nepal, with interests extend beyond national borders, following the movements of people, ideas, and materials across the region. Current geographic area of interest include places north of the Siwaliks, South Asia, as well as the mountain region of the US.
Key Activities
Research; exhibition; interactive digital map; social media content
Impacts from Funding
Mining Mountains: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
This project of the KAMM Centern investigates the environmental, social, and political impacts of mountain mining in Colorado and Nepal through a bi-national exhibition in Boulder and Kathmandu. Though separated by geography and culture, these sister cities share a mining legacy and a deep connection to the surrounding mountains. By examining different materials, technologies, and mining intensities in each region, the exhibition fosters dialogue and generates new knowledge about how mining shapes landscapes and communities in distinct yet interconnected ways.
Our Projects
Coordinating Community
in the Face of Climate Chaos
