Supporting innovative social change efforts
that engage people in climate solutions and caring for our commons
REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS
2023 Energy Action Network: Energy Action Network harnesses the intellect, energy, and support of Vermonts non-profits, businesses, and public agencies to create model climate solutions and policies in Vermont that are being shared and replicated in other states and communities across America.
eanvt.org
2022 ValuesAdvisor: A match for investors and values-aligned Financial Advisor. The platform accelerates the flow of money to good, helps investors align their capital with their values, makes it easy to find the best investment professionals while contributing to the preserving integrity of the values investing field.
valuesadvisor.org
2021 The Eco-Institute: The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain is an earth sanctuary and learning community dedicated to healing the human-earth relationship as part of the global awakening. They are crafting tomorrow’s story through community resilience, spiritual ecology and permaculture.
eco-institute.org
2020 Leading Change Network, Inc.: A global community of organizers, educators, and researchers who meet the challenges of democracy by developing the leadership to organize communities which build power and realize the values of equality, solidarity, and dignity.
leadingchangenetwork.org
2019 World Bicycle Relief: Builds bicycles for students and people who access education, healthcare, and jobs. They help people conquer the challenge of distance, achieve independence and thrive. Their very cool, built in country, specially designed bicycles, are easy to repair and durable. So, they last and go long distances on rugged terrain.
worldbicyclerelief.org
2018 ecoAmerica: Expands climate leadership beyond traditional environmental circles. They’re building a diverse network of major institutions and thought leaders in the faith, health, and communities’ sectors who have the power to inspire tens of millions of Americans on climate change, in counties and communities nationwide. They provide strategy, tools and resources to help leaders demonstrate visible climate leadership, empower climate literacy and build collective action and advocacy for significant climate solutions.
ecoamerica.org
2017 Interfaith Power & Light: A religious response to Climate change because the moral voice, the ethical mind, the core messages of God and Allah might make the difference.
interfaithpowerandlight.org
2016 DivestInvest Individual: So that individuals can celebrate their pledge to divest from fossil fuels, invest in the world they want to create, and revoke the social license of the fossil fuel industry.
divestinvest.org
2015 ecoAmerica American Climate Leadership Summit: To bring US associations together to share and learn about climate solutions and inspire action.
ecoamerica.org
2014 Carbon Tracker: Helping Exxon shareholders understand the climate risks to which their investments are exposed.
carbontracker.org
2013 Movement Generation: Translating “just economy” visions into tangible models that move philanthropy from theory to action.
movementgeneration.org
2012 As You Sow: Holding corporations accountable, day-by-day, shareholder-meeting-by-shareholder-meeting, will change the world.
asyousow.org
2011 Hauser Center: Providing Marshall Ganz’s organizing pedagogy to organizers worldwide so they can help their countries and traditions engage in democracy.
ksghauser.harvard.edu
2010 Grist: Digestible news on climate—with a smile—is essential for the choir and beyond.
grist.org
2009 Climate Interactive: The Copenhagen Climate Conference needed a user-friendly climate simulator, C-ROADS, that would show pathways toward climate stabilization.
climateinteractive.org
2008 Dogwood Alliance: To hold Staples accountable for its unsustainable logging in the southern United States.
dogwoodalliance.org
2007 Catawba Riverkeepers Foundation: The relicensing of Duke Powers hydro on the Catawba required Catawba Riverkeepers’ leadership in the stakeholder process.
catawbariverkeeper.org
2006 Wild Earth Society: To turn the vision of continent-long and continent-wide corridors for migration into practical application.
wildlandsnetwork.org
2005 Sierra Club Foundation: A bottom–up, decision-making process that engaged all groups and chapters was essential in turning toward a climate focus.
sierraclub.org
INVESTMENTS
Bonwood Social Investments: We invest in engaging people in climate solutions such that they will imagine and build fresh systems that support themselves and each other.
Our Philanthropic Investments: Over the past 20 years, Bonwood Social Investments has invested over $13 million dollars in 200+ organizations in four- to six- figure grants. We fund organizations that are shifting society and investments to climate solutions, run by people we know and trust.
Our Financial Investments: Bonwood investments are fossil-free. We believe that owning fossil fuels today—coal, oil, gas—is akin to owning climate change. These energy sources are a bad financial investment, high risk and morally wrong. We are on a path to invest 100% of our capital assets in companies, organizations and funds that build a healthy future.
Bonwood Social Investments does not accept unsolicited inquiries or proposals.
“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”