Patagonia: Environment Grants

Overview

What do they do

• Patagonia supports environmental organizations with bold, direct-action agendas and a commitment to long-term change.
• Patagonia supports innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. They focus on places where they’ve built connections through outdoor recreation and through their network of retail stores, nationally and internationally.
• They believe local battles to protect a specific stand of forest, a stretch of river, an indigenous wild species or a community from a polluting refinery build public support and confront larger, more complex issues like climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental justice.
• They encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defend communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation.
• They support multipronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws.

What do they fund

They fund work that:

• builds an equitable, inclusive and diverse environmental movement
• confronts systemic bias, discrimination and injustice in environmental policy or outdoor spaces
• is action-oriented
• focuses on root causes
• has a clear strategy
• identifies specific goals and objectives that can be effectively measured to evaluate success
• builds public involvement and civic engagement
• works to build an inclusive and diverse environmental movement
• takes place within the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Patagonia believes that the most direct path to real change is through building grassroots momentum.

Their funding focuses on organizations that have or can create a strong base of support. Because they're a privately held company, they have the freedom to fund risk-taking, off-the-beaten-track groups, and that's where we believe their small grants are most effective.

They accept one proposal per group in a given fiscal year (May 1–April 30). Their typical grant size ranges between $5,000 and $15,000. Proposals are reviewed and grants decisions are made by an employee grants council in Europe.

There are two annual deadlines for this process:

• May 31st (all applications received in May will receive a response by the end of August)
• September 30th (all applications received in September will receive a response by the end of December)

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