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Climate and Clean Energy Program Awards $2.68M to Systems Change Efforts

In summer 2024, the Foundation’s Climate and Clean Energy program awarded $2.68 million in grants to organizations and coalitions pushing for large-scale and sustainable clean energy development in the U.S.

Although much of our energy infrastructure is still dependent on fossil fuels, the transition to clean energy is underway. This is why the Climate and Clean Energy program’s grantmaking focuses on advancing policies that spur the rapid and widespread adoption of clean energy technologies to reduce carbon emissions, in line with what science tells us we need to do.

This latest slate of grants supports efforts to accelerate the deployment of clean energy generation and electric vehicles, as well as the removal of fossil fuels from buildings in ways that address the needs of vulnerable communities.

Learn more about these awards below, and visit the Climate and Clean Energy program’s webpage here.

    • $505,000 award to Union of Concerned Scientists, to accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, and the equitable transition to a clean energy economy.
    • $500,000 award to Climate Action Campaign to support a national coalition of environment, environmental justice, and public health groups to equitably address the climate crisis.
    • $350,000 award to The Sunrise Project Inc., to accelerate clean energy investment.
    • $350,000 award to Collectrify, to advance equitable building electrification solutions.
    • $150,000 award to Potential Energy Coalition Inc., for clean energy acceleration and implementation of clean energy policies and programs.
    • $250,000 award to Center for Rural Affairs, to accelerate the pace and scale of clean energy development in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
    • $250,000 award to Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, to advance climate and clean energy policies that benefit the rural communities in the San Joaquin and Eastern Coachella valleys of California.
    • $125,000 award to CALSTART, to implement strong regulations and new incentive programs to speed the deployment of zero-emission vehicles and charging infrastructure.
    • $200,000 award to United States Energy Foundation, to support a multi-year campaign in the western U.S. aimed at building the necessary transmission line capacity to connect new clean energy.

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