Call for Nominations: Network Leadership Grants

In this call for nominations, the Green Screen Catalyst Fund is looking to support individuals, networks, and organizations who are catalysing action on environmental justice issues across the AI supply chain.

The nominees have been active at the intersection of climate or environmental justice and digital rights and need support to continue and sustain their work. These can be leaders who need support to continue building momentum around existing work or want to catalyse action on an emerging issue.

The Green Screen Network Leadership Grants offer individuals, networks, and organizations the financial opportunity (up to $50,000) to start or continue to do research, agenda-setting, communicating, knowledge sharing, and (cross) network-building on issues like, for example, Climate Governance, Energy Sovereignty, AI Supply Chain, Movements for Land and Water, Labor Organising and Tech Infrastructure. Nominate someone here (you can also self-nominate).

The Network leadership grants build upon the catalyst fund and the projects supported under this. Any previous grant recipients from the Green Screen Coalition are welcome and eligible to apply.

This Call for Nominations will close on 2026-03-15 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam).

Who can apply

Organizations, individuals, and collectives from the majority territory, global north and Indigenous nations that are working at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights and technology. We welcome well-established organizations, loosely-defined collectives, and individuals who are legally able to receive funds from the Catalyst Fund host Mozilla Foundation, which is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, to apply. If you operate as a collective but are not a legal entity, please choose one person to formally apply on behalf of the collective. For more information, see the FAQ section.

As a starting point, the following criteria will be part of the consideration for a leadership grant:

• Region: The applicant is from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America.
• Action-Oriented: The proposal catalyses action on environmental justice issues across the AI supply chain (such as raw materials, semiconductors and other hardware, digital infrastructure, data centres, training data, foundational software platforms)
• Topics: Climate Governance, Energy Sovereignty, AI Supply Chain, Movements for Land and Water, Labor Organising and Tech Infrastructure, data centre resistance, building comms and narratives, or bridge building to other justice movements.
• Facilitative leadership: The applicant is an organization, individual or collective that is a trusted convener of conversations in a region or on a key topic. They consult stakeholders and develop processes to support broader participation, learning, and action.
• Supporting movement organizing: The grant can help address the needs and pain points for the organising work applicants are already doing. The grant can support research, agenda-setting, communicating, knowledge sharing, and network-building activities, but also activities that build social and strategic infrastructure that help people connect, organize and mobilize together.
• Reducing harms in impacted communities: The grant should center and work with the people and communities harmed by socially and environmentally extractive infrastructures exacerbated by the tech industry.

How to apply

Tell us about the nominee and their work by submitting a nomination through this form before March 16th 2026. You can nominate an individual, community, or organization that you think should be considered for the Green Screen Coalition Leadership Grant. This can also be a self-nomination. You will be asked to submit basic information about the nominee and their work.

Due to internal constraints, the application process is in English only. Please indicate in your application whether you are using a translation tool so we can take this into account in the review process. Note that projects and outputs can be in local languages and do not have to be in English.

This Call for Nominations will close on 2026-03-15 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam).

The Process:

• When the call for proposals closes, all nominees will undergo an initial eligibility check to ensure their application is in scope.
• The advisory committee and the Catalyst Fund Co-leads will review the nominations and invite a selection of nominees to submit a full application.
• All nominees will be informed mid April whether they have been selected for a full application.
• A full application consists of a short description of proposed activities based on the full application questionnaire (see “Full Application Questions” below), a baseline budget, and required documentation related to the eligibility criteria.
• A final review and selection will be made by the Fund’s decision-making body based on the quality of the full proposal and the available funding. The grants will be awarded, and paperwork signed by the end of July 2026.

What is not being considered for this round of funding

• For-profit endeavors
• Projects by technology companies or other industries to improve the sustainability of their products
• Projects on behalf of communities of which the applicant is not a part, without partners or collaborators from said communities
• Projects with funding ties to fossil fuel companies and other extractive industries
• Projects that require funding from the Catalyst Fund that lasts longer than a year

If you have questions about eligibility, please reach out to us at grants@mozillafoundation.org.

Full Application

A number of nominations will be selected to hand in a full application. Applicants will be selected by the Advisory Committee. All nominees will be informed by the beginning of April whether they have been selected for a full application.

A full application consists of a short description of proposed activities based on the full application questionnaire below, a baseline budget, and required documentation related to the eligibility criteria. The deadline for a full application will be May 3rd 2026. The final decision on the applications will be made in June.

Questions for Full Application

1. What issue related to the intersection of digital rights and technology and climate and environmental justice does your work attempt to address? (1250 characters)
2. Give us examples of the kind of activities and work you plan to do should you receive this grant. If you have received specific feedback or questions from us, please include them here. (2500 characters)
3. Tell us about possible outcomes from the grant. What could this grant support you and your networks in starting or finishing? Include ways in which your work be beneficial to a or your broader community, i.e. by sharing resources or knowledge or capacity, you can also indicate this here. (1250 characters)
4. How would you describe success in your work? Or put differently, what would you hope to achieve at the end of the grant? (1500 characters)
5. Tell us about any prior experience that is relevant to the network leadership grant themes: research, agenda-setting, communicating, knowledge sharing, and (cross) network-building on issues like, for example, Climate Governance, Energy Sovereignty, AI Supply Chain, Movements for Land and Water, Labor Organising and Tech Infrastructure. (1250 characters)
6. Collaboration: Tell us more about potential collaborations with partners and allies for this work. How do you plan to work with these actors to accomplish your goals? (1250 characters)
7. As a coalition, we want to facilitate a space where the community learns and grows together. Please share any topics or themes you are interested in learning about, or something you can share with others. This can be anything from organizational to content-related questions. (1250 characters)
8. Have you received, or are you anticipating, additional funding for this project? If so, describe the previous funding and how you’re going to use the Network Leadership Grant for this project. (1250 characters)

Required Documents:

• Submit a Budget for your project. Please download this Budget Template to complete and attach to your application.
• List of key staff or project members, with a description of their role.
• Most recent audit or Form 990 (or equivalent). If these are not available, please provide a copy of the organization’s internally prepared financial statements for the most recently completed fiscal year.

Required if the condition is met:

• If the applicant has a board of directors, include a list of board members with affiliations.
• If the applicant is an NGO located outside of the United States, provide evidence of legal status in the applicant’s home country. Please specify if you already have a US 501c3 Equivalency Determination granted through NGOSource.
• If applicable, a fiscal sponsorship agreement.

Timeline

• Feb 16 - March 15 2026 - Nominations form open
• April 20 - Invitations for full applications are sent out
• 3 May - Deadline for submission of full application
• May/June - Communication and follow-up questions for the full application
• Mid July - Final decisions based on legal compliance and grants processed

About the Green Screen Catalyst Fund

The Green Screen Catalyst Fund is one of the first explicit attempts to invest and support practitioners at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights. The goal of the Fund is to bring a diversity of voices into local and global debates and to enact change in policy, research, and community building.

Given the common understanding that the climate crisis increasingly threatens life on this planet, the Green Screen Coalition is integrating climate justice action into its philanthropic funding strategies for digital rights. The initial research on the intersection of climate justice and digital rights recommended that funders and civil society:

• foster the development of cross-cutting projects and programmes;
• support collaborative research and information sharing;
• support common spaces for digital rights organizations and environmental justice actors to build trust, exchange strategies and create common agendas;
• support capacity of both grassroot organizers, Indigenous communities, and the digital rights and environmental and climate justice movements to engage with each other; and
• foster funding strategies that meet movements and communities where they are.

Scope of the Green Screen Catalyst Fund

The Green Screen Catalyst Fund catalyzes ideas of individuals, organizations, and networks on the specific issues around climate justice and digital rights. By catalyze, we mean support important conversations, projects, and action at the intersection with the hope that it will transform the way technology is built, how communities organize, and how we understand the interdependency between climate justice and technology.

See how we define these two concepts in the section below. This includes, but is not limited to:

• topics on the environmental impacts of internet infrastructures and digital technologies,
• platform accountability, and the environmental impact of tracking and the AdTech industry,
• research projects that apply a social justice lens to internet infrastructure research,
• false and misleading climate solutions, i.e. naming greenwashing by the tech industry,
• research and prototyping ideas for internet infrastructures and new technologies that are less environmentally damaging, such as slow internet, non-extractivist digital technologies, feminist and decolonial technologies,
• digital and border surveillance economies and technologies for digital control,
• and extractivism and mega-projects.

You can apply with:

• Research at the nexus of climate justice and digital rights and technology.
• Translation of existing research and reports into other formats and languages.
• Advocacy, narrative change strategies, and other emerging work at the nexus of climate justice and digital rights and technology.
• Prototyping of policy demands that push forward actionable and positive climate action about internet infrastructure and new technologies into the policy and industry arena.
• Community and round table events that bring together different actors to work towards an actionable agenda on a specific topic.
• Community-led initiatives that engage with climate and environmental actors interested in the intersection and build bridges across fields.
• Requests for travel support for digital rights and human rights practitioners to attend climate-related events, and vise-versa.
• Follow up research to expand existing body of research, i.e landscape analysis, issue briefs, and other existing research at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights.
• Meetings and collaborative research projects aimed at building trust and exchange strategies.
• Developing organizational capacity on intersectional digital rights and climate justice issues

About the Green Screen Coalition

The Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights Coalition is a group of funders and practitioners looking to build bridges across the digital rights and climate justice movements. The aim of the coalition is to be a catalyst in making visible the climate implications of technology by supporting emerging on-the-ground work, building networks, and embedding the issue as an area within philanthropy. Beginning earnestly in spring 2021, the coalition consists of Ariadne, Ford Foundation, Internet Society Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Green Web Foundation, critical infrastructure lab, and Stiftung Mercator. The coalition is part of a broader network of organizations and individuals around the world working on these issues.