Patagonia

Patagonia, the American clothing and outdoor gear company, awards grants of up to $12,000 to innovative local work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities.

The company encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defend communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. They support multi-pronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws.

Patagonia seek to fund projects that:

• builds an equitable, inclusive and diverse environmental movement

• confronts systemic bias, discrimination and injustice in environmental policy or outdoor spaces

• are action-oriented;

• focus on root causes;

-have a clear strategy;

• identify specific goals and objectives that can be effectively measured to evaluate success;

• build public involvement and civic engagement;

• work to build an inclusive and diverse environmental movement; and

• take place within the following countries: United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, Chile, Argentina, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Austria and the Czech Republic.

We do not fund

organizations that perpetuate systemic biases and discrimination based on ethnicity, race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran, or disability status

organizations without a non-profit status or a comparable fiscal sponsor

trail creation, maintenance or restoration

any dam renovations, human-assisted fish passage infrastructure or hatchery programs

conservation easements or land acquisition

research, unless it is in direct support of a developed plan for specific action to alleviate an environmental problem

projects that are solely focused on environmental education

environmental conferences, event sponsorships or film festivals

endowment funds

political campaigns

green building projects

bike advocacy, unless the project is in direct support of a climate change solution

Deadlines: Continuous rolling programme however:

all applications received by 30 June will receive a response by the end of October; and all applications received by 31 January will receive a response by the end of June.

Patagonia believes that the most direct path to real change is through building grassroots momentum.

Our funding focuses on organizations that have or can create a strong base of support.