How to Craft Climate Financing That Helps Minorities and Lower-Income Americans
“This year, the Farmworker Association will receive funding from a source more closely aligned with its values: the Climate Justice Alliance’s Our Power Loan Fund. Unlike funding that comes directly from a corporation or its charitable subsidiary, Tovar says, CJA’s loan fund puts workers at the center of building a just transition toward a green economy. At the association’s four Campesinos Gardens, which the loan will support, farmworkers grow fresh, healthy produce for themselves and their families with the aim of promoting economic, racial, and environmental justice. This intersectional approach—emerging from the interlocking challenges that farmworkers face—stands in contrast to the single-issue advocacy of larger environmental organizations, many of which are staffed and led primarily by white urban professionals.”