teams are built on trust.

TRUST BASED GRANTMAKING

Last Mile Justice supports partner organizations, local communities, and other stakeholders in their effort to ensure environmental justice is available in even the most remote communities.  The Last Mile Justice team has vast experience in traditional and trust-based grant making.  Last Mile Justice supports grantees with simplified proposal and reporting requirements, reduced grant restrictions, by building long-term relationships with partners, and facilitating connections between stakeholders.  Last Mile Justice approaches its partnerships with deep humility, a profound focus on listening, and through the engagement of all community members including historically marginalized groups such as women, youth, and the elderly.

  • Community based monitoring

    Many indigenous leaders and local community members wish to share their stories in an effort to drive change. LMJ provides grants and in-kind donations to enhance the ability of storytellers to became evidence bearers in order to amplify impact through improved efficiency of information gathering and by connecting information obtained to organizations and actors that can support communities in achieving their desired outcomes.

  • Capacity building for Justice

    There are tremendous opportunities to scale impact through capacity building. Small organizations, passionate individuals, community leaders, and other stakeholders are doing everything they can - every single day - to hold the line against environmental destruction and environmental injustice. Last Mile Justice provides grants to local partners to achieve these strategic goals:

    Advancing the democratization of monitoring and enforcement. In today’s world anyone, anywhere can document social and environmental change. This increase in documentation has the potential to dramatically alter who and how environmental enforcement occurs.

    South-South exchanges and other community network building activities. Many local environmental practitioners, community leaders, storytellers, citizen enforcers, evidence bearers, and other stakeholders are focused on their day to day activities with little time to access peer knowledge, share aligned experiences, and learn about ways to grow their impact. LMJ will facilitate knowledge sharing to grow impact.

    Building the capacity of actors to draft policy and law, the ability of prosecutors and judges to deliver just resolution, and local partners to work effectively with regional and intranational tools available to them to achieve their goals including monitoring corporate actions and influencing consumer demand.

  • Secure Storytelling

    Storytelling is more necessary than ever. Not only do we rely on stories of natural wonder and social and environmental triumphs to feed our soul, but we rely on the personal experiences of those nestled in remote parts of the world to help us understand the state of our natural and social systems, the injustices left to be extinguished, and the role that each of us plays in ensuring that every person on this magnificent planet has access to a just society in a healthy, biodiverse realm.

    LMJ funds projects that protect storytellers, enable storytellers to share their journey, and helps storytellers acquire evidence to advance positive outcomes for their village, their cultures, and their lands.