November 22, 2023 As part of their second grant cycle of 2023, Opportunity Fund (OF), who supports organizations focused on the arts and social and economic justice, awarded US$15,000 to TCI in support of The Fifth Quarter Program. TCI is honored to have received this generous grant from OF, and excited to continue funding and increasing access in philanthropy for […]
Words are like cozy sweaters. You’ve had them so long that you don’t remember who gifted them to you, but you keep them anyway. But what happens when they no longer fit? When they feel itchy on the skin and suffocating at the neck? When they are tight around the shoulders and the seams start to tear? When you recognize that these words, were
March 23, 2022 FORGE, a collaborative grantmaking effort TCI is a founding member of, granted US$1.42 million to civil society organizations working on debt justice around the world to counter the corrosive impact of sovereign debt on the protection and realization of labor, climate, gender and social justice in the context of a post-COVID recovery. Read more on this Fund
February 2022 In 2021, TCI contributed to an innovative collaboration between Howard University School of Law (HUSL) and Environmental Law Institute (ELI) that resulted in the implementation of the TCI Fellowship Program. Through this collaboration, we were able to support three Fellows- Sharde Slaw, Ellis Walton, and Indigo Brown – with their important legal and scientific research. TCI is proud
February 10, 2021 TCI has collaborated with other members of Funders Organized for Rights in the Global Economy (FORGE) to focus on climate, gender, and debt justice as part of the Response and Vision Fund. This second slate of awards went to efforts to uplift workers, migrants, and marginalized groups by connecting worker and community-led organizations with international networks. Read
June 29, 2020 TCI has joined forces with other members of Funders Organized for Rights in the Global Economy (FORGE) to launch a new fund to advance fair global economic responses to COVID-19. As TCI’s Executive Director Conniel Malek put it, “The Response and Vision Fund allows us to build and use our collective muscle to prioritize those most affect
El 6 de octubre de 2021, la Iniciativa de Costos Verdaderos convocó nuestra inaugural Conferencia de Becarios(as) TCI: Externalidades de la Contaminación & Realidades Comunitarias. Nuestras metas para este evento mundial, eran: i) desarrollar un sentido de comunidad; ii) destacar la incidencia increíble de nuestra clase mundial de Becarios(as) y iii) pasar tiempo los unos(as) con los otros(as) en celebración,
On October 6th, 2021, True Costs Initiative virtually convened our inaugural TCI Fellowship Conference: Pollution Externalities & Community Realities. Our goals for this global event were to i) build community; ii) spotlight the incredible advocacy of our global class of Fellows; and iii) spend time with each other in celebration, conversation, music and poetry. The conference consisted of two sessions.
Over the last several years, we have steadily increased the number and size of our support to ensure our partners and the affected communities they represent have the broad range of expertise necessary to advance human and environmental rights. We have also deepened our commitment to supporting Indigenous and other traditionally marginalized communities. In the process, we formed a hypothesis that the
