Case Studies
Grassroots groups and alliances have been building power, shaping public opinion, and winning policy change in environmental and climate justice for decades. One big reason their success is not well resourced or celebrated is that philanthropy and the media don’t often understand how change happens from the ground-up. Without resources to tell the stories let alone measure the impact of their success, grassroots leadership in some of the climate movement’s greatest victories is too often dismissed. This collection of impact research and case studies provides a closer look at how frontline organizations are uniquely positioned and highly effective at implementing their ideas to create the future we all want.
Just Solutions, in partnership with The Solutions Project, released a new report that showcases nine climate and environmental justice successes among the many other campaign wins and accomplishments of TSP’s grassroots grantee partners in 2025 that bring measurable benefits to people and the planet.
This report from The Solutions Project examines the current U.S. climate communications landscape, identifying key challenges like fragmented media, alienating jargon, and audience despair, while highlighting opportunities in authentic community storytelling, digital creator ecosystems, and intersectional messaging. The central takeaway is that building a broad climate constituency requires meeting diverse audiences through issues they already care about, messengers they trust, and platforms they already use — rather than relying on a single universal message or frame.
Just Solutions, in partnership with The Solutions Project, released a new report that showcases nine community-driven policy wins that are advancing solutions to the climate crisis at the local, state, and federal levels.
The Solutions Project enlisted the Just Solutions Collective, to assess a subset of our grantees’ policy achievements and how people’s lives are improved by our grantees’ approach to policy change.
Partnering with Frontline Solutions, The Solutions Project conducted a comprehensive analysis of our grantee partners’ achievements with the scaled support of our ecosystem approach in 2021-2023.
The Solutions Project commissioned Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy to assess the climate benefits of three grantee partner campaign wins in New York.
The Solutions Project x Climate Access: Determining bold, yet achievable, narratives that center frontline organizations in the fight for better climate policies and healthier communities.
The Solutions Project x Unbound Philanthropy: Reimagining environmental justice through solidarity-building across California’s Asian-American migrant communities.
The Solutions Project x Unbound Philanthropy: Rebuilding Gulf Coast communities impacted by climate disasters through a Green New Deal for the Gulf South.
The Solutions Project x Unbound Philanthropy: Investing in Buffalo’s climate refugee communities to build green infrastructure and a regenerative economy.