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1.5°Climate Pitch Interest Form

The 1.5°Climate Strategies Group (1.5°Climate) is a national donor collaborative that is focused on identifying a comprehensive range of impactful and equitable climate solutions and mobilizing the necessary resources to rapidly catalyze and scale up these solutions. 1.5°Climate hosts biweekly organizational quick pitches enabling members to make catalytic climate investments in a wide variety of organizations working in the nexus between climate and policy. 

If your organization is interested in presenting to the 1.5°Climate, please complete this intake form. After submitting the form, you will receive an email with a unique URL to a budget worksheet which will allow you to share additional details about your organization’s programs. 

Please note that if your organization’s work does not align with 1.5°Climate priorities at this time, we will save your information and may reach out to you if/when our focus aligns with your work. 

1.5°Climate works with Clean & Prosperous America’s CaPA connector to help standardize and professionalize our intake review process. By completing this form, you agree to have your organization’s submitted information shared with CaPA and made privately available to other institutional donors beyond 1.5°Climate that may be interested in funding your organization. CaPA will also elevate your organization’s basic org information publicly through the CaPA Connector Platform where other philanthropists, and prospective partners, can learn about your organization  unless you choose to opt out below. 

To aid your work on this submission: Here is a Google document with all the questions in the 1.5°Climate intake form. We recommend you make a copy of this form to save your work for any group editing with your team prior to final submission. You can also print and save this form as a PDF to have an offline copy of the questions.

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SECTION 1 - BASIC INFORMATION

Please share the name of the organization that you would like to pitch to 1.5°CSG. If you have multiple entities that can receive funds for your project, please share the organization name that you’d like to prioritize fundraising for.

Do not display the org
Presenting Organization Entity Type

Check which entity you would like to prioritize receiving funds for this project.

If your entity does not have an EIN# please enter N/A

Please provide the last 4 digits of your entity's bank account for receiving ACH and wire transfers. This information is collected to avoid the need to verbally verify your account information if you receive a grant award from CaPA and its affiliates.

Other Affiliated Entities Type, Name, EIN

Check which other entity types, if any, could receive funds for the project you’d like to pitch to 1.5°CSG. Please list the full legal name and Employer Identification Number (EIN) for each other entity type that could receive funding for this project.

Please note phone numbers are retained for non-public purposes and will not be displayed publicly.

SECTION 2 - 1.5°CSG SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

In 100 words or less, describe the program you would like to pitch to 1.5°CSG members including the specific geographies your presentation will highlight.

1.5°Climate Sub-Topics

Which of these sub-topics apply to the program you want to pitch? Check all that apply.

Primary 1.5°Climate Sub-Topic

Which of these sub-topics apply to the program you want to pitch? Check all that apply.

What is the total budget of the program you would like to pitch?

What is your current funding gap for the program you would like to pitch?

How would $100k change the trajectory of your proposed project? What would be the priority use of the next $100k you receive towards your project?

SECTION 3 - ORGANIZATION INFORMATION

In 100 words or less, describe in a timeless fashion what your organization does and stands for.

In 100 words or less, describe your core 2025 programming plans.

Note: You can copy and paste your 1.5°CSG program pitch into this section if it encompasses your entire 2025 programming plans

Please share how many Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees or contractors your organization currently has (e.g. 1 person working 40 hrs/week = 1 FTE; 3 people working 20 hrs/week = 1.5 FTE).

Organizational Leadership Diversity

Please select the demographics, where applicable, for your organization’s leaders.

Please provide a short narrative about the leadership roles filled by the individuals representing the demographics selected above.

Target Constituencies

What constituencies does your organization engage? Check all boxes that apply.

Core Constituencies

Please select no more than three core constituencies which you view as your primary target.

Target Issues

What issues does your organization seek to educate or persuade people about? Check all boxes that apply. And use “Other” field to list additional issue focuses separated by commas.

Core Issues
Please select no more than three core issues which you view as the primary issue your organization engages.
Geographic density focus

Select your Geographic density focus

Program States

Please select the states your organization is working in.

Many donors are interested in work that is occurring at a sub-state level. CaPA tracks sub-state geographies using U.S. congressional districts. Please share with us all of the Congressional Districts where your organization fields outreach and engagement efforts.  This does not mean or require that your organization engages the congressional district race(s), just the geography contained by those district boundaries. Follow this format (State Acronym - District # separated by commas) [e.g. CA-27, AZ-01, AZ-06, CO-03]. To help identify your sub-state geographies you can review CD’s, counties, and zip-codes on this nation-wide GIS map and here is a list of all CDs by State.
Community Engagement Actions

Please select any programs your organization plans to field in the coming year. 

Notes:

  • Direct Voter Registration = targeting a list of unregistered voters
  • Indirect Voter Registration = tabling or other outreach without using a list of unregistered voters
  • Cold List Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting people not connected to you or your organization
  • Warm List Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting people who have given your organization their contact information
  • Relational Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting friends, family, or other personal connections
Staff and Volunteer Balance

Select your Staff and Volunteer Balance.

SECTION 4 - BUDGET WORKSHEETS

CaPA has developed a budget worksheet template to help institutional donors evaluate your organization’s activities and associated costs over a two year period, including the current calendar year’s projected budget and last year’s actual budget. 

 

This worksheet is not required as part of the initial 1.5°Climate intake process; however, groups are encouraged to complete it to strengthen your entity's CaPA Connector profile for other institutional investors utilizing the private CaPA Connector+.  If your organization progresses beyond the 1.5°Climate interview process completing this budget worksheet will be required.

 

Once this form is submitted, you will receive an automated email with a unique URL linked to your organization’s budget worksheet workbook.

SECTION 5 - SCHEDULING AN INTERVIEW

After pressing submit you will be directed to a confirmation page and receive an email, both of which will provide a Calendar Scheduling Link which you should use to schedule a 45 min intake interview with 1.5°Climate staff to progress further in the intake process.