Category: Beneficiaries

Mission: As Missoula, Montana’s gender-expansive bikepacking group, Slow Spokes provides resources, community, and experiences for non-binary, trans, gender-expansive, and women riders of all abilities to have safe, confident, barrier-free fun bikepacking in the Missoula area. “Slow Spokes is profoundly appreciative of Climate Ride for awarding us an Environmental Justice Access Grant. We believe that bikepacking is a […]

Mission: Street Lab is a nonprofit that transforms streets and public spaces across New York City into places that improve lives, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring New Yorkers together. We use a pop-up approach to do this, relying on custom physical designs to create innovative places for reading, play, creativity, and more. Funds from the Climate […]

Mission: Outdoorithm Collective transforms access to public lands by creating supportive, culturally relevant camping experiences and community networks that empower urban families to build lasting outdoor traditions. “Leave anyway. Camp as it comes. Nobody solos. Dirt don’t hurt. Take up space. For Outdoorithm Collective, these aren’t just mantras – they’re invitations to a movement where BIPOC families are discovering that public […]

Mission: Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) began with a circle of elders and organizers who knew that protecting the land was not just political work, it was sacred work. Since 1990, we have grown into a movement that stretches across Turtle Island, rooted in the teachings of our ancestors and the leadership of Indigenous communities on […]

Mission: Black Outside, Inc. is on a mission to reconnect Black/African-American youth and families to the healing power of the outdoors. At Black Outside, Inc, we believe every young person deserves to experience the wonder and transformative power of nature. From witnessing the rush of a waterfall to standing atop their first mountain peak, we […]

Mission: Native Americans in Higher Education and Mentorship (NAHEM) is a national, Native women-owned organization driving the cultural resilience and self-determination of Indigenous peoples globally. We achieve our mission through a proven, grassroots service model, delivered nationally and reinforced by vital localized programs in Northern California and Seattle, Washington, focusing on education, mentorship, and cultural […]

Mission: PODER’s mission is to organize with Latino immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power. We organize in San Francisco’s Mission, Excelsior and other southeast neighborhoods, & forge alliances to achieve transformational […]

Mission: IE is committed to developing and improving transparency and reciprocity with our community and partners in an effort to co-create meaningful impact for people + planet. Our commitment to shifting the narrative of environmental storytelling to center diversity and joy will continue to be rooted in the values of the environmental justice movement and […]

More than ever, we must support the protection of our public lands, which are sacred and deeply significant to Indigenous communities. Bears Ears is more than a national treasure—it is a living cultural landscape and ancestral home to many Native Nations. Comparable in grandeur to its sister parks to the north, Canyonlands and Arches, Bears […]

Mission: The Brightline team blends public policy advocacy and on-the-ground partnerships to promote sustainability and opportunity in frontline communities. Our work at the nexus of environmental justice, workforce development, and clean energy has kept power plants – and their pollutants – out of low-income communities, created hundreds of local jobs to benefit underserved communities, and […]

ABOVE: Amazon Frontlines co-founders Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson (who both loved speaking at the Wine Country Ride this summer) alongside Indigenous leaders from our partner organization Alianza Ceibo (Ceibo Alliance), including Jairo Irumenga (Waorani), Hernan Payaguaje (Siekopai), Alexandra Narvaez (A’i Kofan), Alex Lucitante (A’i Kofan), Alicia Salazar (Siona). Mission: Amazon Frontlines builds political and […]

Mission: Black Girl Environmentalist is a national organization dedicated to addressing the pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women and gender-expansive people. “Black Girl Environmentalist is honored to receive Climate Ride’s Environmental Justice Action Grant. As a growing women of color-led environmental group, this funding will support the work of […]