As of 2022, I believe these are some of the most effective climate nonprofits.

I made the list so

people who want to financially support climate action have a menu of ideas to explore based on
their own theories of change or passions.

As always, this list is incomplete. There are thousands of amazing climate organizations not
included. So if you don't see your favorite on here, please share and make a comment in this
doc so I and others can check it out.

Y'all have helped shape all of these sustainability lists and I am updating them over time!

Fantastic climate nonprofits to consider supporting

Climate Solutions & Research
Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is the world's leading resource for climate solutions.

Their research and analysis includes the work of a broad coalition of researchers, scientists,
graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and activists to assemble
and present the best available information on existing climate solutions in order to describe their
beneficial financial, social and environmental impact.

The Global Warming Mitigation Project

Via the "Keeling Curve Prize", the Global Warming Mitigation Project identifies and gives grants
to projects across the globe that have significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
or increase carbon uptake.

The Nuclear Innovation Alliance

The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) is a non-profit “think-and-do” tank working to enable
advanced nuclear power as a global solution to mitigate climate change. Through policy
analysis, research, outreach, and education, we are catalyzing the next era of nuclear energy.

Our mission is to bring economically competitive zero-carbon emission energy to the world by
supporting entrepreneurialism and accelerated innovation and commercialization of advanced
nuclear energy systems.

Time For The Planet

https://join-time.com/en

®
Time for the Planet is raising money
 to detect and deploy 100 global innovations
against greenhouse gases.

Grassroots Activism
The Sunrise Movement

The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good
jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent
priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and
elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.

350

We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and
build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom
up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion is a decentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement

using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on
the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

The All We Can Save Project

We uplift truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis.

We resource leaders to build community and spark climate action.

We nurture emergent climate feminists — of all ages and genders.

We invest in women leading on climate to support their transformational work.

Third Act

Third Act is people over the age of 60 — “experienced Americans” — determined to change the
world for the better. We muster political and economic power to move Washington and Wall
Street in the name of a fairer, more sustainable society and planet. We back up the great work
of younger people, and we make good trouble of our own.

Climate Emergency Fund

We support the activists who are transforming climate politics.

We fund young, ultra-ambitious organizations that tell the truth about the climate emergency,
disrupt normalcy, organize mass protests, and demand transformative change.
This is Zero Hour

Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points, training, and resources for new young
activists and organizers (and adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action
around climate change. Together, we are a movement of unstoppable youth organizing to
protect our rights and access to the natural resources and a clean, safe, and healthy
environment that will ensure a livable future where we not just survive, but flourish.

Environmental Justice & Frontline Communities

WE ACT for Environmental Justice

We empower and organize low-income people of color to build healthy communities for all.

The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy

The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) is a non-profit, public interest law firm and
justice center with a mission to advance structural shifts toward climate justice and ecological
equity in communities of color on the frontline of climate change. GCCLP envisions social,
economic and political systems throughout the Gulf South that promote equity and justice for all
people.

Through human rights-based legal services, community training, local leadership development
and grassroots advocacy, GCCLP works to create structural balances in alliance with
marginalized communities of the Gulf South. GCCLP’s programmatic work and community
campaigns emerge from coastal communities on the frontlines of climate change.

Rainforest Foundation US

Rainforest Foundation US is tackling the world’s most urgent challenges: biodiversity loss,
climate change, and human rights.

They've been protecting rainforests in partnership with indigenous peoples since 1989.

Indigenous Environmental Network

IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental
and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN’s activities include building the capacity of Indigenous
communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land,
water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all living things, and to build
economically sustainable communities. IEN accomplishes this by maintaining an informational
clearinghouse, organizing campaigns, direct actions and public awareness, building the capacity
of community and tribes to address EJ issues, development of initiatives to impact policy, and
building alliances among Indigenous communities, tribes, inter-tribal and Indigenous
organizations, people-of-color/ethnic organizations, faith-based and women groups, youth,
labor, environmental organizations and others. IEN convenes local, regional and national
meetings on environmental and economic justice issues, and provides support, resources and
referral to Indigenous communities and youth throughout primarily North America – and in
recent years – globally.

Honor the Earth

Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop
needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities.
Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous
wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those
not heard.

As a unique national Native initiative, Honor the Earth works to a) raise public awareness and b)
raise and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups. We are the only Native
organization that provides both financial support and organizing support to Native environmental
initiatives. This model is based on strategic analysis of what is needed to forge change in Indian
country, and it is based deep in our communities, histories, and long-term struggles to protect
the earth.

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children
and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region
through research, education, community and student engagement for policy change, as well as
health and safety training for environmental careers.

Getting environmentalists to vote in US Elections

Environmental Voter Project

We identify inactive environmentalists and transform them into consistent voters to build the
power of the environmental movement.

With behavioral science-informed messaging, we text, call, canvass, mail, and send digital ads
to millions of low-propensity environmental voters each year with just one goal: turning them into
better voters. Since 2015, we have contacted 7.4 million non-voting and seldom-voting
environmentalists and helped convert 730,000 of them into “super voters” who now consistently
vote their values in every federal, state, and local election.

Public Policy & Research

Rewiring America

Rewiring America is a growing nonprofit, working to launch a movement that electrifies

everything, starting with our 121 million households.

Through accurate, accessible, and actionable data and storytelling tools that power smart,
inclusive advocacy and market-transforming partnerships, Rewiring America aims to achieve
national emissions goals, improve our health, lower monthly bills, and create millions of clean
energy jobs.

Evergreen Action

Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda,
implement an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change and create millions of jobs in a clean
energy economy. We empower climate and community leaders, and advocate for policymakers
to adopt the urgent climate policies that science demands.
Climate Interactive

Based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling, our simulations and insights help
people see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change,
inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food.

Journalism
Grist

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate

solutions and a just future. Our goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way
toward a better world, inspire millions of people to walk that path with us, and show that the time
for action is now.

Inside Climate News

Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news
organization that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the
environment, for the public and for decision makers. We serve as watchdogs of government,
industry and advocacy groups and hold them accountable for their policies and actions.

3Corporate Action
Climate Voice

Our mission is to mobilize the voice of the workforce to urge companies to go “all in” on climate,
both in business practices and policy advocacy.

Science Based Targets Initiative

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) drives ambitious climate action in the private sector
by enabling companies to set science-based emissions reduction targets.

Last but not least, I believe we do some pretty amazing work here on a shoestring budget so I'll
humbly add:

Crowdsourcing Sustainability

Crowdsourcing Sustainability is helping to reverse global warming as quickly and equitably as

possible by inspiring and empowering people around the world to make the places they live and
work climate positive.

We're informing minds, touching hearts, and inspiring action with our podcast and newsletter
that reaches over 200,000 people in 150+ countries. As well as enabling connection and
collaboration within our growing community to multiply our collective impact.

We're helping to strengthen existing sustainability champions and bringing new ones on board -
building the people power needed for a safer, healthier, and more just world.

Environmental Defense Fund

If you're interested in donating to 14 of the 24 organizations mentioned above with a single
donation, you can do so with the WISHLY app (which was recently launched by a fellow
Crowdsourcing Sustainability reader, Joanne Forster!).

I created a climate action "collection" on WISHLY for anyone who wants to support many of
these effective climate organizations that are tackling the problem from various angles with one
donation (I couldn't add those that are 501(c)(4)s or have fiscal sponsors).

Faith-based initiatives:

Including this one:

https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/cooler-earth-higher-benefits-poster

https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/cooler-earth-higher-benefits-second-edition

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14PGIgdfFO3nQdYnri6as1gkdiB3JK82AitTFoIxvIQE/edit

Based on this research a joint appeal will be launched in February by WCC with the UN and
Jewish and Muslim leaders - to be endorsed by all networks who can influence their banks to
move away from fossil fuels and into renewables. Details to follow shortly, including capacity
building opportunities for all.

Education / workforce development

https://www.seiinc.org/

Inclusive solar workforce Development : www.remoteenergy.org

Around culinary efforts and supporting farmers you can check out our nonprofit
www.chefhui.com

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

From their website: “East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a
community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles,
Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach.”