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About The Chisholm Legacy Project

Location:

P.O. Box 1031, Burtonsville, MD 20866, US

Mission Statement

The mission of the Chisholm Legacy Project is rooted in a Just Transition Framework, serving as a vehicle to connect Black communities on the frontlines of climate justice with resources to traverse the path from vision to strategy to action plan to implementation to transformation. In support of frontline leadership, the project seeks to link movements and mainstream entities with the tools necessary to advance systems change centered in equity and justice. With Black women on the frontlines of advancing systems change, this project ensures that these leaders have the support they need as they transform society from extractivism to a living economy that cares for sacred relationships between people and with Mother Earth, through regenerative, cooperative, democratic systems.

Description

Building on 10+ years of justice centered organizing, the Chisholm Legacy Project advances the following:

• Community Building: Work and walk with Black communities to surface our visions for systemic change, build strategies to achieve those visions, devise action plans, as well as leverage an abundance of existing resources and partners for implementation;
• Movement Building: Serve the collective climate justice movement through curation and creation of research and policy analysis, training/certification programs, strengthened communications capacity, building climate finance models, as well as facilitating diaspora connections for power building.
• Mainstream Field Building: Facilitate the infusion of equity and justice centered analysis, policies and practices, into mainstream environmentalism/climate action by elevating aligned frontline people/organizations who will provide grassroots leadership on just solutions.
• Black Women’s Leadership Building: Through connecting Black Women to coaching, sisterships, healing circles, entrepreneurship assistance, etc., we will ensure deep investments in the wellbeing and leadership of Black women, who anchor so much of environmental and climate justice activism, with too little support.