Since 2017, Grassroots International has been honored to host and manage the BEAI Fund, working closely with the BEAI Fund Advisory Board. The fund supports organizations with approaches that include: mutual aid to meet community needs; addressing impacts of pollution and environmental injustice; agroecology, food sovereignty, and rebuilding of local farms; energy democracy; water protection and access; promotion of solidarity economies; advancing women’s leadership; popular education; policy work; and movement building toward long-term systemic change.
2018-2020 U.S. Based Grantees:
- Aina Momona
- Alaska Coalition Against Toxics
- Alternatives for Community and Environment
- Black Mesa Water Coalition
- Border Agricultural Workers Project
- Catskill Mountainkeeper
- Center for Coalfield Justice
- Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas
- Community to Community
- Concerned Citizens of Wagon Mound and Mora County
- Cooperation Jackson
- Delaware Concerned Citizens & Residents for Environmental Justice
- Dream of Wild Health
- East Michigan Environmental Action Council
- East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
- Environmental Justice Health Alliance
- Farmworkers Association of Florida
- Fuerza Unida
- Got Green
- Gwich’in Steering Committee
- Harambee House
- Hawaii Seed
- Idle No More
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Ironbound Community Corporation
- Just Transition Alliance
- La Plazita Institute
- Lideres Campesinas
- Louisiana Rise
- Miami Workers Center
- Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
- Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment
- Native Renewables
- New Labor Education and Training Institute
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
- PODER Austin
- PODER San Francisco
- Red Rock Foundation- Havasupai Elders and Youth
- Soil Generation
- Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke
- Southern Illinoisans Against Fracking our Environment
- Southwest Workers Union
- Stay Together Appalachian Youth
- Sustainable Nations
- The Alliance for Appalachia
- United Workers Association
- UPROSE
2019 Puerto Rico Grantees:
- AgitArte
- Amaneser 2025
- Campamento Contra las Cenizas
- Comedores Sociales
- Colectivo El Ancón de Loíza
- El Josco Bravo
- Emerge Puerto Rico
- Iniciativa de Ecodesarrollo de Bahia de Jobos
- JunteGente
- La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción
- La Maraña
- Organización Boricua
- Proyecto de Solidaridad y Autogestión Comunitaria para la Descolonización