2022 Faithful Climate BIPOC Fellowship Program

The Faithful Climate Action Fellowship is a virtual and paid opportunity for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) across the United States for Christian, Jewish or Muslim young adults (ages 18-26), who are concerned about the climate crisis. The cohort  explores how faith traditions can support and guide our climate activism. 
Fellows engage in 7 weeks of evening trainings to hone climate action skills. Fellows participate in weekly interactive webinars in July and August that will provide a chance to network with other young faith and climate leaders, as participants develop their voices as faith and climate activists. The fellows are also responsible for doing a project ranging from op-eds to artistic expression to delivering a message to their house of worship/faith community, and participate in faith-based resource development.
The fellowship runs between July 7-August 18, 2022. Fellows will participate in training sessions related to the following topics: faith engagement, media and op-ed writing, organizing training, artistic training, and spiritual grounding and renewal. Fellows will receive a $500 stipend upon the successful completion of the fellowship requirements. 

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Preference is given to those who apply by May 23, 2022. Application will remain open until spots are filled. 

Partnering Organizations

Creation Justice Ministries educates, equips, and mobilizes Christian communions/ denominations, congregations and individuals to protect, restore, and rightly share God's creation. Based on the priorities of its members, with a particular concern for the vulnerable and marginalized. Creation Justice Ministries provides collaborative opportunities to build ecumenical community, guides people of faith, and faith communities towards Eco-justice transformations, and raises a collective witness in the public arena echoing Christ's call for relationships among all creation. This is the second year that CJM has staffed the Faithful Climate Action Fellowship.

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is building a dynamic movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold collective action. With more than 70 volunteer-led Dayenu Circles across the country and through strategic partnerships, we’re growing and supporting a multi-generational movement rooted in Jewish values, experience, and spirit that harnesses the collective power of American Jews of every generation and background to add their voices to national and global climate justice movements.

Green Faith is an International Faith and Spiritual Climate and Environmental Action Network, united by a commitment to climate justice and to building grassroots, multi-faith influences for change. As people of faith and spirit coming together in communities of care and resilience, standing up for one another and building a world rooted in love, justice and compassion.

Interfaith Power & Light connects people of all faith traditions to a religious response to the climate crisis through three dozen state affiliates. IPL and our affiliates help congregations and people of faith learn, go green, and speak out for policies that protect Creation.

United Women in Faith is the largest denominational faith organization for women with approximately 800,000 members throughout the U.S. whose mission is fostering spiritual growth, developing leaders and advocating for justice. Recognizing both the call to care for God’s creation and the disproportionate impact the climate crisis is having on women, children, youth, and frontline communities least responsible, climate justice is one of United Women in Faith’s issue priorities. Through United Women in Faith’s Just Energy for All campaign, members are advocating for 100% renewable energy where justice and equity are centered.
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Wisconsin Green Muslims is a grassroots environmental justice group formed in 2005, connecting faith, environmental justice, sustainability, and healing through education and service. It intends to educate the Muslims community and the general public about the Islamic environmental teachings, to apply these teachings in daily life, and to form coalitions with others working toward a just, healthy, peaceful, and sustainable future. Wisconsin Green Muslims works on environmental justice issues as they relate to climate change, clean air and pure water, healthy food, solar energy and energy efficiency, waste reduction and transportation equity. We weave healing justice work into our movement building.