A Just Transition calls on us all to participate in collective action, both within and between communities–of people, organizations, and movements and philanthropy–to reimagine and remake the world. Justice Funders’ Community and Funder Collaborations, as well as our Movement Commons Culture and Collective Action Lab, are two ways we participate in and facilitate collective action.

Justice Funders works to shift power and resources by supporting hosts Community and Funder Collaborations between frontline movement organizations and funders that center movement strategies and democratic control of resources.

Justice Funders puts our values into practice through our Culture & Collective Action Lab. We partner with philanthropic and movement leaders to design, pilot, and scale both innovation and collective action that advance social movements.

The Justice Funders office was originally located on the unceded land of the Lisjan Ohlone people. We have since become a national organization where staff reside on the lands of the: Lisjan Ohlone, Tamien Ohlone, Amah Mutsin, Ramaytush Ohlone, Tongva, Tewa, Paiute, Shoshone, Washoe, Jumanos, Coahuiltecan, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, Shawnee, Cherokee, Catawba, Sugaree, Waxhaw, Anishinaabe, Ottowa, Potawatomi, Lenape, Chumash, Massa-adchu-es-et, Pawtucket, Pocumtuc, Nipmuc, and Abenaki peoples.

To move towards being in right relationship with Indigenous peoples, we encourage our philanthropies across the U.S. to learn whose land you are on, support your local Indigenous communities and pay land taxes where your staff, board of directors, and grantees, live and work. Paying Indigenous Honor & Land Taxes is one step in a long-term process of healing, action, and repair. Learn more about the Indigenous land you occupy at native-land.ca.

This year, Justice Funders is committed to paying the:

• Institutional Shuumi Land Tax to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
• Yunakin Land Tax to support the work of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula.
• Kuuy Nahwá’a Guest Exchange to support the work of Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy, a Tongva-led organization created to steward lands in Tovaangar, the traditional Tongva region, encompassing the greater Los Angeles basin.