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Raised: $1,699,700
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Educational: Data Center's Climate & Energy Impacts

1.5°Climate hosted an educational briefing on the fastest-growing driver of U.S. electricity demand: data centers. The session examined how rapid AI and cloud-computing expansion is straining the grid, increasing electricity costs, and threatening state climate targets. Speakers outlined emerging risks, the key decisions facing regulators and utilities, and the strategic interventions needed to ensure this surge accelerates—rather than obstructs—the clean energy transition. While the event did not include fundraising, it set the stage for our upcoming quick-pitch sessions spotlighting state and regional data center campaign opportunities.
Geography: National
Presenter(s): Jackson Morris, NRDC, State Power Sector Director | Michael Thomas, Cleanview, Founder | Kelly Nordini, Conservation Colorado, CEO
Presentation Date: 12/02/2025
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Global Enteric Methane Impact Alliance

$66,500 Raised
Livestock enteric methane, produced during ruminant digestion, is the world’s largest source of human-caused methane emissions - and one of the highest-leverage near-term climate opportunities given its ~12-year atmospheric lifespan. Yet this space remains fragmented, misunderstood, and dramatically underinvested. The Global Enteric Methane Impact Alliance (GEMIA) is a coalition formed to accelerate credible, scalable mitigation solutions. In 2026, GEMIA will conduct market analyses, foster alignment on measurement and carbon market integrity, and execute a proactive communications strategy to build public confidence and combat misinformation. Supporting GEMIA transforms coordinated field-building that turns scattered efforts into coordinated, durable climate impact this decade.
Geography: National, international
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Charles Brooke, SPARK's Program Lead for Livestock Enteric Methane Mitigation | Kosta Stavreas, Board Chair of the Global Enteric Methane Impact Alliance (GEMIA)
Presentation Date: 11/18/2025
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Project InnerSpace

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Next generation geothermal is a zero-carbon source of electricity and heat/cooling that is at a critical inflection point to unlock massive decarbonization benefits in the US. According to the International Energy Agency, new geothermal technologies have the potential to meet all electricity and heat demand in Africa, China, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States combined. Despite this, geothermal has been absent from major conversations about decarbonization in the US. Project InnerSpace is facilitating the rapid transfer of resources, technologies, and know-how from the oil and gas industry toward geothermal energy production through state specific research papers and innovations like GeoMap.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Ryan Williams, Director of Development | Jackson Grimes, Director of Global Engagement
Presentation Date: 09/09/2025
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Greenlight America

$107,600 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Greenlight is mobilizing grassroots power to win local clean energy fights where projects are most at risk of being blocked. With our Clean Energy Mobilization Hub, we equip supporters to show up in permitting battles, ensuring solar, wind, and storage get built on time to meet the urgent climate window. Partnering with Protect Our Winters (POW), we’re expanding campaigns in the Mountain West—especially Colorado and Nevada—through joint phonebanking and organizing, advancing projects with more than 600MW potential. Together, we’re making sure clean energy doesn’t lose by forfeit and building durable climate wins in critical geographies.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Matt Traldi, Founder and CEO
Presentation Date: 08/26/2025
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American Solar Grazing Association

$104,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA) is a farmer-founded organization that provides support for the movement to find common ground through the co-location of solar and agriculture. Solar grazing currently takes place on over 100,000 acres at 500 sites in 27 states. With support, it could happen throughout the country. It keeps farmland in agricultural production, provides needed land management for solar, increases farm revenue, provides land access, and increases domestic lamb supply. ASGA needs funds to create resources, provide mentorship, offer workforce development, administer certifications, and increase awareness of this opportunity.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4
Presenter(s): Stacie Peterson, Executive Director | Lexi Hain, President of the Board
Presentation Date: 07/29/2025
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Climate Cabinet

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Climate Cabinet helps state and local candidates run, win, and legislate on climate. In 2024, they supported over 170 top priority climate champions running with the highest "ROI" on climate. So far, 52% of those candidates have been victorious in their tough election battles this year. Now, Climate Cabinet will connect winning candidates with experts across the field to advance a range of climate policies in states across the country. This project is focused on raising funds to hire lobbyists to strategically support Climate Policy action efforts in key States.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Caroline Spears, Executive Director | Dave Weiskopf, Senior Policy Director
Presentation Date: 11/12/2024
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The States Project

$50,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The States Project (TSP) wins and defends governing majorities in states across the country and provides state lawmakers with tools, resources, and training to advance policies that improve their constituents' lives. To prepare for the Trump Administration's radical Project 2025 undoing of government protections, including climate and environmental, TSP is looking to rapidly scale up their lawmaker engagement and policy programs to prepare more states to protect their communities. They will bring their wealth of experience in helping lawmakers coalesce around shared policy values while simultaneously providing policy ideas, research, and messaging guidance to ensure that lawmakers are prepared to make good clean air, water, and energy policies into winning issues that they can successfully deliver to constituents across the country.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Daniel Squadron, Executive Director | Zeeshan Ott, Senior Director, Programs
Presentation Date: 11/12/2024
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Rural Youth Voter Fund

$1,171,600 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Rural Youth Voter Fund (RYVF) supports and expands civic engagement and power-building efforts that nurture the extraordinary promise of young rural voters to protect and strengthen democracy. Launched in 2023 by the Rural Democracy Initiative (RDI), Movement Voter Project, and Clean and Prosperous America, RYVF is building a network of grassroots organizations working to mobilize the 30 million ambivalent young voters living in rural areas and small cities in key battleground states. RYVF aims to deploy at least $10 million to effective efforts focused on voter participation, leadership development, persuasive communications, and rural issues affecting young people. Camille Thompson with Collective Renaissance Georgia, a recipient of RYVF support, spoke on the call as a representative of the types of orgs supported by the RYVF.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Sarah Jaynes, Executive Director | Camille Thompson, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/06/2024
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC

Jane Fonda Climate PAC is on a mission to reshape the political landscape, ensuring that leaders are not only aware of the urgent climate crisis but are also committed to taking decisive action. Through strategic campaigns, direct candidate support, and relentless grassroots organizing, Jane Fonda Climate PAC is holding the fossil fuel industry accountable and pushing for a sustainable future. And now, in 2024, they’re taking their efforts to the next level with the launch of a groundbreaking relational field organizing program. This initiative aims to empower communities and amplify their voices in electing climate champions to state legislative seats. These are the individuals who will shape policy, drive innovation, and lead us toward a cleaner, greener tomorrow. Join to learn more about the critical climate fights at the down ballot level and how JanePAC is building a bench of climate champions to lead us to a clean energy future.
Geography: National, California, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada.
Funding Type: PAC
Presenter(s): Jane Fonda, Principal | Sarah Lane, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 05/28/2024
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Citizens' Climate Education

Citizens’ Climate Lobby's c3 affiliate Citizens’ Climate Education (“CCE”) is a nonpartisan grassroots network with 220,000+ supporters and 380 active chapters across the United States. For this project, CCE is partnering with WorkMoney to raise awareness about their resource center which helps consumers capture electrification and weatherization credits. CCE volunteers will deploy educational resources nationally, including in every key battleground state and district generating an economically efficient cost-per-acquisition. In these battleground areas alone, the expected impact of this $50k project is direct exposure to 57,000 supporters and the promotion of educational materials via 1,250+ tabling events and volunteer-organized presentations.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Topher Anderson, Acting Director of Development
Presentation Date: 04/16/2024
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WorkMoney

WorkMoney is a large-scale membership organization providing nonpartisan, trustworthy information, resources, and community to assist 6+ million members raise incomes and lower costs by helping them to take action in their economic self-interest. Building upon a successful pilot that delivered $663 million to 477,000 members, WorkMoney officially launched their Resource Center last month. The Resource Center is a multilingual “one-stop shop” for helping navigate the complex maze of 75 government programs to access benefits. The resource center provides direct assistance for consumers seeking opt-in IRA benefits. The Resource Center is not only about putting hard-earned dollars back in working people’s pockets; it’s also about reframing the role of government in their lives by making cost-saving programs visible, tangible, and accessible.1.5°CSG is raising funds to expand access to the resource center to a number of grassroots organizations launching IRA enrollment education programs in their communities.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Evan Kost, Chief Partnerships Officer | Lauren Rourke, Senior Director of Product Partnerships
Presentation Date: 03/26/2024
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Climate Cabinet

Climate Cabinet is Moneyball for Climate. To combat the climate crisis fast, we need to activate the levers of power that have the biggest impact. Please join this presentation by Climate Cabinet which will explore state and local candidates whose elections hold outsized impact on climate policies and infrastructure. Nested within key 2024 congressional battlegrounds, these pre-vetted candidates also run strong field and media campaigns, unlocking additional benefits all the way up the ballot. Join us to learn how small investments can equal big climate wins, and boost voter turnout in key geographies.
Geography: National
Funding Type: PAC
Presenter(s): Caroline Spears, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 03/12/2024
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Evergreen Action

Evergreen Action was founded in 2020 with the goal of advancing bold - and actionable - policies to defeat the climate crisis and create millions of jobs in a just, thriving, and inclusive clean energy economy. The foundational Evergreen Action Plan was formed out of Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s 2020 presidential bid and his gold standard climate platform. In three years, Evergreen has made a demonstrative impact, shaping Biden’s first term agenda by helping pass, defend, and implement the Inflation Reduction Act. Join the presentation for a briefing on the Evergreen 2025 Action Plan which articulates what winning climate policy should be for Biden and other candidates. Also learn how Evergreen plans to align and inspire elected officials and advocates to take ownership of a progressive path forward that maximize the likelihood of success for the climate cause come November and beyond.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Craig Segall, Vice President Evergreen Action
Presentation Date: 02/06/2024
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Clean Energy for America

Clean Energy for America (CE4A) and CE4A Action are organizations that are dedicated to the clean energy workforce. They engage and catalyze their base for advocacy and elections, hold elected and appointed officials accountable at all levels, and amplify stories from workers. They are committed to ensuring the success of the clean energy transition. In 2024, CE4A will continue to support narrative building work in key states by telling the stories of clean energy workers, engaging decision makers through projects in their districts, and strengthening the durability of federal investments like the IRA, BIL, CHIPs Act, and other key programs. CE4A Action, their federal hybrid PAC, will grow support for clean energy champions through targeted programs in key geographies to ensure that clean energy is a winning issue.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Andrew Reagan, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 01/23/2024
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Climate Bond Initiative

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is a UK-based nonprofit, deeply engaged with policymakers and financial firms around the world as the top certifier of green bonds, but has limited presence in the US. Carbon Washington, founded to promote the first carbon pricing ballot initiative in the US, is now focused on mobilizing the trillions of dollars in public and private investment needed to meet climate goals and is partnering with CBI to facilitate its U.S. expansion.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Sean Kidney, CEO and Founder
Presentation Date: 01/09/2024
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Inclusive Prosperity Capital

Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC), a mission-driven 501(c)3 national clean energy financing platform spun out of the Connecticut Green Bank, focuses on bridging the gap in clean energy financing for traditionally underserved communities and market segments. IPC has invested over $50 million in clean energy and resilience projects across the U.S. and Territories, with a near-term pipeline of over $100 million of additional investment opportunities. Approximately 50% of IPC's investments benefit low to moderate income communities, with approximately 60% directed towards communities of color IPC's unique business model leverages a blended capital stack to ensure sustainable operations and capital reinvestment. As a lead coalition partner with the Justice Climate Fund, IPC is well-positioned to access Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) capital facilitating the potential to exponentially scale its impact during the coming years. Currently, IPC is spearheading the creation of a secondary market platform, collaborating with organizations like Opportunity Finance Network, Inclusive, Carsey School of Public Policy, and Natural Resource Defense Council, to standardize clean energy financing, making it easier for small community lenders to issue clean energy loans to subprime applicants with the risk reduced by philanthropic dollars.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Kerry O'Neil, Chief Executive Officer
Presentation Date: 11/28/2023
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UndauntedK12

UndauntedK12 is committed to assisting K-12 academic institutions in optimizing their access to IRA and federal resources. Their mission is to accelerate the transition to zero-carbon schools while enhancing institutional and student awareness of the health benefits of clean buildings. UndauntedK12 is actively seeking resources to expand their successful initiatives in California and Massachusetts to school districts nationwide; with a focus on purple States. This expansion includes a program to track the allocation and utilization of IRA funding within school districts, creating a valuable resource for showcasing how IRA resources have improved children's health and well-being.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Jonathan Klein, Co-Founder
Presentation Date: 10/24/2023
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Land & Liberty

Land & Liberty, part of the Clean Grid Alliance, boasts a highly experienced team with a two-decade track record of effectively navigating utility-scale siting conflicts across several states, including Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Their renewable energy siting efforts are distinctly concentrated on the more conservative, rural regions within these states, acknowledging that these areas hold the greatest technical potential for renewable energy projects while concurrently harboring the lowest levels of public support for the fundamental reasons behind transitioning to carbon-free sources of electricity.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Beth Soholt, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 10/10/2023
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Greenlight America

Greenlight America is focused on leveraging local grassroots support with the goal of winning local clean energy siting and permitting fights. The U.S. needs to build 6,000 clean energy facilities over the next decade, almost 2 per day, as well as more than 10,000 miles of transmission lines to hit emission reduction goals. Local opposition is the biggest obstacle to these projects, and there are few coordinated efforts to engage supporters as advocates for these projects. Greenlight is building a scalable, nationwide clean energy campaign hub to work with partner organizations, engage and mobilize local residents, and win project approvals.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Matt Traldi, Founder and CEO
Presentation Date: 10/10/2023
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Lawyers for Good Government

Lawyers for Good Government organizes a robust network of 125,000 volunteer legal advocates across all fifty states. This dedicated community offers pro-bono legal services to protect human and civil rights while creating the social and economic conditions that lead to true equity. Their Climate Change and Environmental Justice program provides essential legal support to marginalized communities empowering them to effectively navigate federal funding opportunities. This initiative plays a crucial role in promoting equitable access to benefits, including those established by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Jillian Blanchard, Director of Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program
Presentation Date: 09/05/2023
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Work on Climate

Founded in 2020, Work On Climate focuses on propelling professionals, especially in the tech sector, towards utilizing their expertise for climate solutions. With an active online community of over 25,000 members, they've aided 2,000 individuals in securing jobs through mentorship, events, and networking. Now, they aim to address the pressing challenge of climate talent transition, crucial for a successful shift to a green economy, as burgeoning clean industries confront skill shortages due to high demand for various roles. Work On Climate strives to bridge this gap by providing essential support structures for education, workforce development, and entrepreneurship, aligning them with the requirements of the evolving economy.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Eugene Kirpichov, Co-Founder and ED
Presentation Date: 08/22/2023
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Educational: Opportunities & Risks of Carbon Capture & Storage

Carbon Capture & Storage is often elevated by industry as a climate solution, but it can just as easily serve as a climate foil. This educational event explores the opportunities and risks associated with carbon capture and storage. Notably, this field is actively soliciting philanthropic contributions despite being largely funded by the oil and gas sector, and we encourage philanthropists to exercise caution when considering support for this space.
Geography: National
Presenter(s): Charles Harvey, MIT University | Jamie Alexander, Project Drawdown | Jamie Alexander, Project Drawdown | Emily Grubert, Notre Dame & Former DOE
Presentation Date: 06/27/2023
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Climate Cabinet Education

Climate Cabinet Education is leading a coordination, collaboration, and technical assistance effort focused on enhancing the engagement of municipal utilities with the Inflation Reduction Act resources. The need is massive, with 1,500 municipal utilities in the U.S. sourcing 86% of their electricity from dirty sources. This project, which they are looking to scale, engages all of these utilities at conferences and through materials while providing direct one on one support to 40 prioritized utilities. Additionally, Climate Cabinet has recruited 14 utilities to join a peer learning cohort led by them.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Caroline Spears, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 05/30/2023
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Educational: Evergreen Action

Evergreen Action provided a high level overview of two positive developments coming out of Washington, D.C., and one extremely troubling development in regards to the debt ceiling debate potentially putting at risk many parts of the Inflation Reduction act. Some great questions were asked by members who dove into some of the more wonky aspects of the EPA proposed carbon standard for power plants from methane to NOx coverage as well as carbon capture and storage.
Geography: National
Presenter(s): Lena Moffitt, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 05/16/2023
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Environmental Protection Network

EPN organizes a massive volunteer network of former federal agency staff to provide pro-bono technical assistance to grassroots organizations all over the country helping them access IRA, IIJA, and other federal funding opportunities. We are creating a matching fund for EPN to utilize in their fundraising gala.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Davina Resto, Community Outreach Associate
Presentation Date: 04/18/2023
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Future Now

Future Now is looking to raise funding to elevate climate action within their seven policy priorities. They leverage their network of legislators in purple states to advance policies. In particular, they will take a c4 approach to advocate directly for additional appropriations for new state-funded staff dedicated to capturing federal funds, creating state matching funds for federal grant proposals, and ensuring the funds are deployed towards projects that achieve positive climate outcomes.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4
Presenter(s): Mandara Meyers, Chief Program Officer
Presentation Date: 02/21/2023
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National Association of State Energy Officials

NASEO, at the request of 1.5°CSG, is launching a $100k project to develop a suite of educational materials about the various federal funding opportunities, with a focus on the economic development opportunities and the need for states to allocate funds for new dedicated federal funding-focused state employees and provide matching funds to enhance grant proposals. These materials will be distributed to state energy offices, governor's offices, and other agencies and related associations across the country.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): David Terry, President
Presentation Date: 02/21/2023
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Rural Democracy Initiative

Rural Democracy Initiative is launching a new $20-$40m Regional Rural Focused IRA Coordinating Hubs Project over the next four years. It will focus on setting up regional hubs which can offer coordinating, collaboration, and technical assistance to rural communities and small towns particularly in red and purple states. That's where the difference between the probable and the possible for climate action with IRA funds would be the greatest. 1.5°CSG is kickstarting this project with an aim to get he first $200k in the door.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Presenter(s): Sara Jaynes, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 02/07/2023
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Additional Hold the House for Climate Investments

In addition to Hold the House for climate investments made in presenting organizations, 1.5°CSG also directed donor collaborative funds to the following investments:
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 10/01/2022

Clean & Prosperous America

A pooled resource grant maker historically focused on supporting state level and sub-state level grassroots groups using field tactics to engage young voters of color outside urban centers. CaPA provided a wide variety of grants, and coordinated direct contributions, to over 70 organizations for the Hold the House for Climate project. CaPA's support for this project as a pooled resource grant giver expanded beyond CaPA's traditional focus on young voters of color.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Greg Rock, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/27/2022
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Working America

A non-college worker focused organization that deploys a highly effective and well tested strategy for turning out voters by connecting to their core values. ($222k raised for House Races and $100k raised for Senate Races)
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3c5
Presenter(s): Matt Morrison, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/20/2022
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Movement Voter Project

A pooled resource grant maker that supports grassroots groups and has numerous state, issue, and constituency based funds to invest in. This presentation focused on BIPOC organizing and voter turnout and highlighted NM Native Vote and POWER Action Fund.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Yulissa Mendez, Climate Vote Fund Director
Presentation Date: 08/30/2022
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We Make the Future

Deploying messaging narratives grounded by the Race Class Narrative by distributing open-source unbranded digital ads to state based orgs.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presenter(s): Anika Fassia, Co-Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/23/2022
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Climate Votes PAC

A coordinated effort by LCV, EDF, NRDC, Nextgen, Climate Reality & Climate Power to turn-out climate voters. ($120k raised for Senate Races + $500.5k raised for House races + $550k in aligned house expenditures)
Geography: National
Funding Type: PAC
Presenter(s): Pete Maysmith, Senior VP of Campaigns
Presentation Date: 07/26/2022
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