Rooted in Justice

 

The Cedar Tree Foundation is excited to announce a new cohort of Rooted in Justice grantees who were awarded two years of funding at $25,000/year in April 2024.

2024 Rooted in Justice Grant Recipients

  1. Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas, Inc. for project support for Youth Food Justice Internship Program

  2. Detroit Food Academy for project support for the Advanced Afterschool Leadership Program

  3. Green Guerillas Inc. for project support for Youth Empowerment Pipeline

  4. Groundwork Lawrence for project support for Groundwork Southcoast’s Green Team

  5. Growing Hope Inc. for project support for the Teen Leadership Program

  6. Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center for project support for the Food Justice Club

  7. New Urban Arts for project support for Movement Education Outdoors West End Raices Youth Leadership Garden

  8. TSNE project support for FRESH New London’s Youth Programs

In addition to the Rooted in Justice cohort grants, one time grants of $3,000 were awarded to:

  1. Norris Square Neighborhood Project for project Support for Youth Leadership Programs

  2. Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation for project support of The Local Farm Cooperative

Future grant opportunities through this program will be announced on this webpage, so please check back for updates.

About Rooted in Justice

Rooted in Justice is a funding program designed to help amplify youth voices and actions in the environmental and food justice movements. The program supports community-based organizations and groups that specifically manage youth-led urban greening programs within a justice framework.  

Rooted in Justice recognizes the importance and undeniable right of every young person to have the ability to develop their own relationship with the environment, be it through growing food, spending time with nature, creating community green spaces, or becoming environmental stewards. Rooted in Justice also honors the power and possibilities that arise when young people collectively work to be change-makers in their communities.  

Rooted in Justice supports organizations, groups, collectives, and programs that work with young people between the ages of 12 to 20 in youth-led programming for communities or cultures which have historically or currently experience:

  • A lack of access to land or nature;

  • Agricultural oppression and/or neglect;

  • Food apartheid; and/or

  • Other forms of injustice based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics and disability.

Started in 2021, Rooted in Justice awards grants to a small cohort of organizations recommended to the Cedar Tree Board through an open RFP. Proposals are reviewed and selected by an outside review panel with a majority of BIPOC leaders through a participatory grantmaking process. 

For more information: Click here to see past Rooted in Justice grant award winners and here for details about the Rooted in Justice grant program.

 

 

Page updated 5/2024