Our Mission & Vision
Indigenous Just Transition (IJT) empowers Indigenous communities worldwide to move beyond extractive economies and build sustainable futures.
A world where Indigenous peoples lead the way toward just, regenerative systems: where our lands, people, and waters are healed, our children are thriving, and our sovereignty is fully alive.
Our Core Values
At the heart of our work are values deeply rooted in Indigenous worldviews and resilience:
Indigenous
Stewardship
Our knowledge is ancestral, alive, and essential.
Decolonization
We move with the intention to undo and unlearn systems of oppression.
Regenerative
Economies
We plant the seeds of futures that honor reciprocity, not extraction.
Environmental
Justice
Our liberation is tied to the health of our waters and the breath of our relatives.
Community Care
& Healing
Our strength lives in mutual support, cultural practice, language preservation, and the wisdom of collective healing.
Current Fiscal Sponsees
The Movements We Are Honored to Support
Through fiscal sponsorship, Indigenous Just Transition helps nurture the financial and organizational roots of Indigenous led initiatives; creating space for movements rooted in climate justice, food sovereignty, cultural and language revival, and community healing to grow strong.
Meet Some of the Indigenous-Led Projects We Walk With:
“Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”
We honor the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded the lands and waters where we live and work across Mother Earth—from the Nch’i Wána (Big River) homelands of our Yakama and Umatilla leaders where our vision began, to the Aaní (land) of the Tlingit and Haida in Alaska, the sčtə́ŋxʷən of the Elwha Klallam in Washington, the ʻāina of the Kānaka Maoli in Hawai‘i, the Yuta (land) in the in the Philippines, and Indigenous communities across the world where we currently strive to uplift and support transformative change.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Our organization is grounded in Indigenous knowledge and guided by the understanding that land is alive, sacred, and remembered. As we grow a global Indigenous network, we remain rooted in accountability, cultural resurgence, and the restoration of land-based lifeways.