📰 Bay Nature: Environmental Justice Grantees Halt Work and Scramble to Pay Workers
- Kai Erlenbusch
- 6 days ago
- 1 min read
Date Published: April 16, 2024
Original Article: Environmental justice grantees halt work and scramble to pay workers
This Bay Nature article sheds light on the sudden funding freeze affecting dozens of environmental justice organizations across California—many of which serve frontline communities already facing the worst climate impacts. The report reveals how a pause in disbursements from the California Strategic Growth Council has jeopardized community-led programs, caused staff layoffs, and created widespread uncertainty for organizations that have spent months planning climate resilience initiatives.
Though CRC is not named directly, the ripple effects of this crisis resonate throughout the article. The challenges described—paused community engagement efforts, financial instability, and broken trust in public funding partners—mirror concerns CRC and our peers have been navigating in real time.
The piece underscores how critical it is that public agencies not only fund climate justice work, but also do so with reliability, transparency, and an understanding of what’s at stake when local capacity is put at risk.
“If we fail to center community partners and honor their leadership, we risk undermining the very equity goals these programs were created to address.”— Bay Nature, April 2024
At CRC, we remain committed to long-term, community-rooted solutions—even amid uncertainty. We continue to advocate for sustained, just, and dependable funding pathways for our region’s most vulnerable communities.
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