Fòs Feminista (formerly IPPFWHR), in partnership with Engineers Without Borders USA and CLF, embarked on a pilot project to support sexual and reproductive health clinics in the Dominican Republic. This project strengthens the provision of life-saving health care and community support in the wake of disasters. The critical infrastructure upgrades at the Profamilia clinic included construction of disability access, structural upgrades and the installation of a solar PV system. The project also developed and tested emergency response plans and workforce capacity building to guarantee continuity of services during emergencies. The ongoing second phase will help increase resiliency through the expansion of telemedicine and strengthening the capacity of Profamilia volunteers to take part in emergency responses.

In Dominica and Barbados, in partnership with Internews, CLF funded and supported Information Saves Lives. The project assessed the role of local information ecosystems in building the resiliency and preparedness of marginalized communities, while combating misinformation about COVID-19 and climatic threats. Through an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) assessment, Information Ecosystem Analysis (IEA) and rumor & misinformation tracking, recommendations were made to key stakeholders for the improvement of information ecosystems. The project also trained and up-skilled journalists around the region, and engaged media stakeholders in a series of emergency, and health information training webinars.

CLF has amplified our CRI’s infrastructure project in Dominica at the Morne Prosper and Paix Bouche schools by building on the work done after Hurricane Maria, where the schools were rebuilt and hardened to withstand category five hurricanes. CLF, in partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), are now undergoing upgrades which include renewable energy sources through the installation of solar PV panels. These solar PV systems include battery storage at both schools which will have the capability to operate both as a grid-connected and off-grid systems. The installation of these systems will allow these shelters to be operational in the event of power loss during a disaster event and assist with decreasing operational costs.

Black Visions is a Minnesota-based Black-led, Queer and Trans centering organization whose mission is to organize powerful, connected Black communities and dismantle systems of violence. CLF’s partnership with Black Visions began in 2020, a pivotal year for the organization as they redistributed over $9.1 million in grants to over 121 Black-led organizations in Minnesota. Their Environmental Justice work includes a BIPOC Environmental Justice roundtable that works at the intersection of racial, economic and environmental justice.

CLF’s partnership with Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is aimed at building organizational capacity that nourishes and amplifies the visionary impact of their mission. Through CLF’s partnership, M4BL hired additional staff and resources necessary to make strides in several new initiatives, including the Red, Black and Green New Deal, a multifaceted campaign designed to catalyze Black Communities and advance policy that creates federal investment in Black communities to address the climate crisis and past environmental harms.

CLF partnered with the Center for Popular Democracy (CDP) to organize and mobilize CDP's network to win over 50 major policy changes at the local, state, and federal levels, impacting 28 million people around the country across issues such as community safety, education, climate, housing, immigration, workers’ rights, health care, and more. CPD is organizing communities to address the systemic causes and immediate and long-term impacts of climate change to ensure a transition away from fossil fuels that centers the needs of our most under-resourced communities.