2025 Movement Infrastructure Grants

MOSAIC’S 2025 GRANT CYCLE

Focused on building bridges within and across the movement, Mosaic’s 2025 grantmaking supports a powerful, aligned, and broad-based front to defend five decades of environmental and social progress nationally, while accelerating state and local momentum to continue making gains at those levels.

Building Bridges, Scaling Influence

Just a few short years after environmental movement leaders celebrated the largest federal climate investment in history, bedrock environmental protections, the leaders and institutions that support them, and civil society itself are under massive attack. Mosaic’s 2025 grantmaking responds by supporting a powerful, aligned, and broad-based front across climate, conservation, and environmental health and justice to defend five decades of environmental and social progress nationally, while accelerating state and local momentum to continue making gains at those levels. Our 2025 investments, totaling nearly $6M, enable environmental groups and their allies to bridge diverse work under a set of shared values, and develop the strong and nimble coalition and network infrastructure, shared narratives and advocacy tools, and leadership capacity they need to face down challenges today and build power for transformational change tomorrow. Learn more about our bridge building focus here.

Grants Overview

Mosaic’s 2025 grantmaking builds off the Movement Mobilization Hubs Mosaic funded with multi-year grants in 2024 to continue weaving networks of interconnected and strategically aligned organizations and coalitions that can mobilize broad and diverse constituencies for large-scale collective action around urgent offense and defense goals.

Mosaic’s slate of 30 new grants – alongside 37 renewals and continuing grants from our 2024 grantmaking – focuses largely on state- and cross-state formations that anchor state-level progress while providing scaffolding for movement power from the local to the national. This strategy is building toward a strong, deeply collaborative, and agile environmental movement able to not just achieve near-term wins, but also to hold and wield meaningful, enduring power that transcends social and political divisions.

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Supported projects include:

32 state and cross-state networks and coalitions that are bridging across sectors and to key audiences like workers, veterans, youth, and rural communities to achieve urgent offense and defense goals in climate, conservation, and environmental health and justice. These are paired with a small number of local project that demonstrate powerful, scalable models of effective bridging that can be replicated to support environmental priorities at the state or national level.
14 national networks and collaborative resources that can amplify the effectiveness of state-level movement building work and coordinate and resource national action across sectors and issues.

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Photo courtesy of NY Renews

One way that Mosaic supports movement power is by investing across geographic scale. After providing early funding to New York’s influential climate and environmental justice coalition, NY Renews, starting in 2022, Mosaic is now resourcing two member organizations that enhance NY Renews’ reach and influence: PUSH Buffalo, a local organization that is developing inclusive models of community self-governance and resilience and translating them to state policy opportunities, and ALIGN - Alliance for a Greater New York, which seeks to strengthen campaigns by bringing both community and labor groups to the table to more effectively advance climate priorities. This multi-level infrastructure is a replicable model for a diverse, state-anchored movement building ecosystem that can not only sustain state-level progress but also push a national agenda.

Responding to Movement Needs

In fall 2024, Mosaic engaged in field research, surveys of grantee partners and the broader Mosaic network, and 1:1 conversations with dozens of intermediaries and funding partners. Along with Mosaic’s Leadership Council, we identified three critical strategies that bridge across divides to make collective progress in 2025.

Building Narrative Power

While narrative power building is embedded in many of the projects funded in this cycle, Mosaic is specifically supporting five new narrative-focused projects that are providing essential tools and training for reaching and influencing key constituencies, such as rural audiences, and connecting environmental issues with health, economic opportunity, and community resilience, among other more tangible concerns.

In 2022, Mosaic funded the Rural People’s Platform and Firelands Workers Building Community Power/Trabajadores Construyendo Poder de la Comunidad to develop narrative leadership around climate jobs in rural parts of Washington State. As their work progressed, they began collaborating with state-level advocacy groups and building connections with base-building groups in other states. In addition to continued support for the work in Washington, Mosaic is now supporting Firelands to anchor a new rural narrative hub that will coordinate and co-resource rural narrative efforts across six states, testing a new model for narrative collaboration at scale.

“We urgently need to get stories out into our communities that make meaning of the crises we’re facing, and that takes resources—to coordinate across organizations, gather stories, place billboards, run ads, get on the radio, and truly lift up the true story of our rural homes." - Stina Janssen, Firelands Co-Founder and Executive Director

Leveraging the environmental movement to defend democracy

Mosaic’s approach to the intersection of climate and democracy demonstrates the belief that a strong, pluralistic, intersectional environmental movement plays a fundamental role in building a strong functional democracy and civil society. Mosaic is supporting projects that build power to hold government accountable, model democratic governance, and safeguard the public’s ability to participate in policy advocacy and decision-making. Several of these projects explicitly coalesce diverse constituencies and create shared resources to protect democratic institutions, processes, and leaders essential to the success of our movements.

Breaking down silos within climate, conservation, and environmental health and justice movements or across issues.

The majority of projects Mosaic supports in this grant cycle forge new and expanded collaboration, including relationships and structures for coordinated advocacy and nimble responses across a range of key issues, from clean energy to mining to housing sustainability.

Photo courtesy of The CLEO Institute

The CLEO Institute is building long-term organizing power in Florida by bringing together civic leaders, faith communities, environmental justice groups, consumer advocates, and clean energy experts around utility reform in six key localities facing pivotal energy decisions.

“Mosaic’s support is helping The CLEO Institute build powerful local coalitions to stop new gas plants and advance community-owned clean energy in Florida. We are not waiting for the clean energy future. We are organizing to build it with solutions that exist today.” - Raymer Maguire, Director of Campaigns and Policy, The CLEO Institute

Advancing Priority Issues

Projects funded in 2025 are working across a range of priority climate, conservation, and environmental health and justice issues:

Climate and Energy

Holding the line on IRA and other federal funding rollbacks for clean energy and other climate and resilience projects and supporting groups to implement successful climate and clean energy projects in their communities, with or without federal funds.
Building strong coalitions with labor, health, housing, veterans and others to broaden the base of support for a clean energy transition and ensure workers and communities have ownership and reap the economic and environmental benefits.
Organizing communities for utility accountability and reform.

Health and Justice

Creating, elevating, and connecting authentic narratives that put community health, safety, and economic justice at the center of public discourse on climate change, petrochemicals, and the clean energy transition, especially in rural and Indigenous communities.
Building and resourcing powerful coalitions across grassroots groups and mainstream environmental organizations to safeguard and win protections against harmful pollutants.

Land/water and Biodiversity

Mobilizing and training grassroots communities to expand, protect, and restore public lands and waters, including ocean-climate resilience, clean water infrastructure, water quality, and fostering climate resilience.
Achieving 30 percent conserved U.S. lands and waters by 2030 in ways that benefit frontline communities most impacted by environmental degradation.
Seeding a new model of community self-governance to address challenges related to flooding, drought, nature-based solutions, and water quality that can be replicated nationally.

Sustainable Systems and Communities

Protecting people’s rights and ability to safely and effectively advocate for environmental, climate, and democratic protections through protest and public processes.
Seeding and supporting civil society institutions to safeguard and continue the important work of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Engaging farmworkers and historically underserved farmers across the country in shaping agricultural policy and practices to be more environmentally and economically sustainable.