Adamah Climate Action Fund
Myerberg has received an Adamah Climate Action Loan! This loan allows us to decrease our greenhouse gas emissions.
Local Jewish Organization Received Loan to Take Action on Climate Change in Year Ahead
The Edwards A. Myerberg Center has received an Adamah Climate Action Fund loan! This loan allows us to decrease our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This loan is made possible by Adamah and its Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition.
Adamah announced the launch of its $1.2M Climate Action Fund around Earth Day 2023. The Fund includes both interest-free loans and matching grants to support Jewish community organizations in undertaking climate solutions that will reduce organizational greenhouse gas emissions.
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Adamah’s Climate Action Fund is open to members of the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, a network of Jewish community organizations who recognize the existential threat and moral urgency of the climate crisis and commit to take action. In 2022, Adamah launched the Coalition in partnership with twenty founding partners who represent major national and international umbrella organizations of Jewish life (including Jewish Federations of North America, Jewish Funders Network, Hillel International, and JCC Association of North America). As of June 2024, over 330 Jewish community organizations across North America – including day schools, synagogues, Hillels, summer camps, and JCCs – have joined the Coalition. Each has committed to developing organizational climate action plans that focus on reducing their institutional emissions and mobilizing their broader networks to engage in climate action.
There is no cost to join the Coalition, and any Jewish organization in North America is eligible for membership.
“This Coalition represents an unprecedented mobilization of the Jewish world towards meaningful Jewish climate action, at pace and at scale,” says Jakir Manela, CEO of Adamah. “We are so grateful to all our Coalition members for leaning into this partnership and engaging in this process. Climate and sustainability have not been on the list of priorities for the vast majority of Jewish organizations; this coalition and the climate action work they are doing reflect a deep paradigm shift and culture change moving forward. By supporting each other and convening hundreds of member organizations across the Jewish world, this coalition is poised to have a transformative impact on Jewish life—for people and planet.”
For more information about Adamah, the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, and the Climate Action Fund, visit adamah.org/coalition.