Strategic Plan
HEFN's 2016-2026 Strategic Plan
Our 10-year strategic plan was co-created with staff and steering committee members in 2015 and informs all of HEFN’s internal and external activities, serving as a guide for how we navigate the sector.
Mission
Our mission is to mobilize philanthropy to accelerate solutions for environmental health and justice by supporting and growing a community of grantmakers to build knowledge, leadership, and power for environmental health and justice.
Priorities
Build a Powerful Base of Support
Embed environmental health and justice in key decisions.
Ensure those impacted have a meaningful voice in decision making.
Improve environmental health outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable.
Strategies
HEFN Works with Funders, Donors, and Partners
Advance Solutions
- Help funders understand major environmental health and justice problems.
- Support funder collaboration to accelerate problem-solving.
Build Leadership
- Focus philanthropy on supporting a more powerful leadership base for environmental health and justice.
- Increase grants to grassroots organizations and efforts led by people of color, women, low-income people, and young people.
- Bolster philanthropy champions for environmental health and justice.
Expand Investment
- Double philanthropy commitments and leverage equivalent investments from outside philanthropy.
- Intensify outreach and communications to attract new allies and resources.