Organizations Archive - 1.5°Climate Strategies Group

Extreme Weather Survivors

$50,000 Match Remaining

Extreme Weather Survivors (EWS) is a national network of people directly impacted by wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and other climate-fueled disasters—92 million Americans each year. Despite this escalating crisis, climate change remains dangerously underestimated by the public and under-prioritized by policymakers. EWS is changing that. Their work expands the reach of the climate movement by engaging people far beyond its traditional base and by ensuring those with lived experience help shape the policies that affect their communities. By empowering survivors as trusted messengers through trauma-informed support and advocacy training, EWS is building a powerful force for change—one that shifts public perception, drives bold policy, and brings new voices into the climate movement. EWS is seeking support for their work to make polluters pay in California.

Geography: California

Funding Type: c4c3

Contact: Sierra Kos, Co-Founder and Co-Director | Chris Kocher, Co-Founder and Co-Director

Presentation Date: 04/24/2025

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Field Programs

| Lobbying

| Messaging & Paid Media

| State Climate Action

California Environmental Voters

$50,000 Match Remaining

EnviroVoters is seeking support to pass a number of urgent climate bills that would make Big Oil pay for the damage their pollution has caused, including disasters like the LA wildfires. These bills shift financial responsibility from frontline communities to corporate polluters and mark a bold step toward long overdue climate justice. This is part of our larger effort to build momentum for polluters pay efforts including insurance affordability and cap and invest. With a proven track record, including the success of SB 253, EnviroVoters brings deep policy expertise, strong coalitions, and a clear strategy to win.

Geography: California

Funding Type: c4c3

Contact: Mary Creasman, CEO

Presentation Date: 04/24/2025

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Field Programs

| Lobbying

| Messaging & Paid Media

| State Climate Action

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

$130,000 Raised

Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is the state's largest community organizing group and independent voter engagement program centering people of color, women, and young people. OOC membership includes students, people of faith, felony impacted people, public school parents, care economy workers and more. Through this program, OOC will apply their deep experience running field programs to a new partnership with WorkMoney to educate Ohioans about opportunities to receive financial benefits generated by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Geography: Ohio

Funding Type: c4c3

Contact: Molly Shack, Executive Director

Presentation Date: 07/09/2024

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Battleground States & Districts

| House Races

Community Change Voters

$114,000 Raised

All data points show that hard-to-find & reach Black, Latino, Native, AAPI, women, and young voters will need additional engagement to turn out for values-aligned candidates. One way to motivate turnout is through layered canvas mail: a personalized mail touch will increase voter turnout, influence voter behavior, and decrease canvas decay. Through a partnership with WorkMoney we will be adding QR codes and pathways to connect voters to government resources that put money directly in their pockets. We know these voters feel economic anxiety and believe no one cares about their pain. The care and IRA benefits framework is an antidote to apathy so that voters can make a direct connection between their power at the voting booth and governing process. This is our opportunity to shift the political calculus -- and ensure voters aren’t isolated from the safety net.

Geography: Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin

Funding Type: c4c3

Contact: Grecia Lima, Executive Director

Presentation Date: 07/09/2024

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Battleground States & Districts

| Field Programs

| House Races

| Senate Races

| Racial Equity Investments

Working Power

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

WP is a project development and financing company collaborating with NGOs, small businesses, and labor unions to co-develop community solar projects for racial and economic justice while utilizing IRA resources. With a current pipeline of 50 projects involving 16 partners, totaling 50 MW of clean energy, these initiatives aim to reduce CO2 emissions by over 42 metric tons and generate $115M in community benefits. 1.5°CSG funds will help the Ecological Citizen’s Project (ECP)'s 1.1 MW solar installation on 10 city properties in Peekskill, NY which is within competitive Congressional District-17. The $2M in community economic benefits this project generates will provide free food through an innovative food sovereignty program.

Geography: New York

Funding Type: c3

Contact: Bracken Hendricks, Chair of the Climate Justice Investment Committee

Presentation Date: 11/28/2023

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance

| Battleground States & Districts

| Racial Equity Investments

United Today Stronger Tomorrow

$300,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

UTST is developing and expanding NGO-led state coordinating tables focused on procuring federal funding in UT, MT, and IA. This work is critically important for making IRA a climate success in these states and will have additional political significance in Montana because of its competitive U.S. Senate race in 2024.

Geography: Utah, Montana, Ohio

Funding Type: c4c3

Contact: Paul Gestos, Special Project Director

Presentation Date: 03/07/2023

Powering Up the Deployment Decade

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance

| Battleground States & Districts

| Red States Investments

| Senate Races

| Red States Investments