Environmental equity supports the health, natural beauty and prosperity we need to thrive.

Quixote Foundation is interested in policy-level support for initiatives that join the environmental and social justice movements.  We are not accepting Letters of Inquiry during 2010.

Goals:

  • Environmental protection is considered as part of every decision people make
  • Ways of living that protect the planet can be implemented affordably
  • People have the will to reduce their impact on climate change

Core approaches and concerns:

  • Diversify the environmental movement with a focus on race
  • Diversify the way the environmental movement defines itself
  • Build progressive infrastructure
  • Weave multiple strands: environmental restoration, protection and preventive action

How we pursue our work:

  • Provide and advocate support for organizations led by people of color, engaging people of color in environmental issues
  • Bring a greater diversity of people into the environmental movement
  • Take the environmental movement out to a greater diversity of people
  • Convene progressive leaders across topics with environment as an underlying theme