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Additional 2024 Winning Elections for Climate Investments

$1,759,833 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
In addition to Winning Election for Climate 2024 investments listed on other dedicated pitch cards, 1.5°CSG also helped move member and aligned entity investments into the following geographies and Organizations working within them:
  • Colorado - $70,000
      • New Era Colorado - $10,000
      • OneColorado - $10,000
      • Mainstream Colorado - $20,000
      • Conservation Colorado - $30,000
  • Georgia - $210,000
      • Black Male Voter Project - $110,000
      • EcoWomanist Institute - $15,000
      • Atlanta Glow  - $10,000
      • AAPI Victory Fund - $50,000
  • Nevada - $100,000
      • Nevada Alliance - $50,000
      • Make the Road Nevada - $50,000
  • North Carolina - $253,000
      • North Carolina Democratic Party - $200,000
      • El Puente - $25,000
      • BluePrint NC - $25,000
      • MekDems - $3,000
  • Michigan - $105,000
      • Michigan LCV - 50,000
      • AAPI Victory Fund - $30,000
      • Raising Voices for Asian Families - $20,000
  • Montana - $31,000
      • Montana Conservation Voters - $31,000
  • Ohio - $576,000
      • Ohio Organizing Collaborative - $325,000
      • Greater Cleveland Congregations - $150,000
      • Young Latino Network -$51,000
      • Ohio Alliance for Community Education - $50,000
  • Texas - $52,631
      • Indivisible Texas - $52,631
  • Wisconsin - $330,000
      • WI Conservation Voters - $200,000
      • Forward Together WI - $30,000
      • Wisconsin Dems - $50,000
      • 350 Wisconsin - $25,000
      • Workers Center for Racial Justice - $25,000
  • Multi-State -  $57,000
    • Future Now - $25,000
    • BlueFuture Micro Grants - $32,000
Geography: Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 11/05/2024

Additional Nebraska State Investments

$3,254,496 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
In addition to Nebraska State investments focused on electing Dan Osborn listed on other dedicated pitch cards, 1.5°CSG also helped move member and aligned entities investments into the following programs and organizations to support a variety of efforts  in Nebraska.
Geography: Nebraska
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 11/04/2024

Empower Project

$685,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Empower has introduced an innovative digital promotion and micro-payment scheme that significantly enhances relational organizing—the gold standard in text communications. This approach enables Empower to achieve remarkable scalability that dramatically surpasses previous organizing efforts in this space. For every $100,000 invested, Empower generates on average 50,000 additional relational conversations in Presidential battlegrounds. This pay for action program recruits individuals to message their friends, family, and colleagues about the importance of voting in this election cycle. With the inundation of TV ads, mailers, texts, digital ads, and more in battleground states ($15B total spend estimated for the 2024 election), this is a tactic that can break through the noise and create a real impact in the presidential race.
Geography: Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Mike Pfohl, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 10/13/2024
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Working America

$2,225,862 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Working America brings together over 5 million people without union representation to fight for fair jobs, a just economy, and a democracy that works for all. Their voter contact programs are rigorously tested using randomized control trials, ensuring they deliver Net Democratic Votes at highly cost-effective rates. Through these efforts, Working America has been instrumental in electing fair-minded leaders, defeating anti-worker legislation, and building grassroots power for working people across the country. 1.5°CSG played a leading role in fundraising for Working America's programs in Ohio, Montana, and Nebraska, while also helping to close critical gaps in Presidential battleground States prioritized by Focus For Democracy.
Geography: Montana, Ohio, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada
Funding Type: c5
Contact: Matt Morrison, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/24/2024
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Retire Career Politicians

$2,115,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Following Deb Fischer’s 2021 promise to retire after two terms, her decision to pursue a fourth term has prompted Retire Career Politicians to launch a PAC in support of her opponent, Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate candidate for Nebraska. Contributions to this PAC will fund pro-Osborn TV ads to boost his name recognition, as well as anti-Fischer ads. A successful $1 million pilot program demonstrated that significant impact is achievable in this low-cost media market, and we are committed to expanding this initiative. In 2024, broadening the Senate battleground map is essential, and Nebraska stands out as a very promising dark-horse race that could shift Senate control away from Republicans while establishing a climate action trifecta at our nation’s capital.
Geography: Nebraska
Presentation Date: 09/16/2024
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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
Contact: Sarah Jaynes, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/06/2024
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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
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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
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Nebraska Railroaders for Public Safety

$2,209,771 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Spurred by the Republican incumbent's terrible record of endangering Nebraskans for the benefit of corporate rail tycoons, NR4PS has launched an I.E. campaign in support of Dan Osborn. This unique campaign will run a field canvass that is coordinated with the candidate campaign. This coordination, allowed under a 2024 FEC rule change, will absolutely boost the overall economic efficiency of the canvass. If the NR4PS campaign can quickly raise enough resources, it will also benefit from hiring experienced canvassers, droves of which will lose their paid canvassing jobs on July 5th when multiple initiatives turn in their final signatures. I.E. Matching funds can be unlocked by contributions to the Dan Osborn Campaign.
Geography: Nebraska
Contact: John-Henry Hekendorn, Consultant
Presentation Date: 06/25/2024
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC

$63,300 Raised
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.
Contact: Jane Fonda, Principal
Presentation Date: 05/28/2024
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Red Wine and Blue

$32,000 Raised
Red Wine & Blue is a grassroots community of over half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism, one friend at a time. They provide a welcoming pathway to political engagement for women, including many who have never been political before, to organize in their communities. To complement their full-time teams in MI, NC, PA, and OH,they are raising funds to hire additional GOTV organizers focused on converting their members into relational volunteers who mobilize their friends, family, and neighbors to vote in critical federal battleground areas. This is a rare relational field program targeting what has consistently proven to be one of the most important and moveable groups of voters - suburban women.
Geography: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Katie Paris, Founder & CEO
Presentation Date: 05/14/2024
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Sister District Project

$31,500 Raised
Sister District mobilizes their national network of grassroots volunteers around the most strategic opportunities to win elections and build power in state legislatures. In 2024, they are driving make-or-break field and fundraising capacity to state legislative races in battlegrounds ― AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, WI. Sister District is closing narrow vote margins, helping Democrats win key seats, shifting the balance of power in entire chambers, and advancing policies on climate change, democracy, and more. Funding will allow Sister District to implement their proven volunteer-powered field strategies and tactics in these seven target states, and expand their work into MN and NH.
Geography: Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Lala Wu, Co-Founder & Executive Director
Presentation Date: 05/14/2024
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Citizens' Climate Education

$50,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Topher Anderson, Acting Director of Development
Presentation Date: 04/16/2024
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WorkMoney

$127,000 Raised
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
Contact: Evan Kost, Chief Partnerships Officer
Presentation Date: 03/26/2024
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Student PIRGs

$154,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Student PIRGs are a national network of student-run non-profits that have recruited, trained, and mobilized college and university students to win on public interest issues since 1971. The organization helped pass the first GHG reduction bills in the 2000s, won commitments for 100% renewable energy at the campus, city, and state level accomplished with a Boards of Directors made up entirely of current college students. This spring, the Student PIRGs aim to leverage their year-round infrastructure on campuses in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia to educate young people about how their network and families can save money and save the environment through new programs and tax incentives created by the Inflation Reduction Act. StudentPIRGs IRA education program triages interested parties to WorkMoney's resource center to streamline each individuals enrollment process.
Geography: Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Dan Xie, Political Director
Presentation Date: 02/20/2024
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Evergreen Action

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Craig Segall, Vice President Evergreen Action
Presentation Date: 02/06/2024
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Clean Energy for America

$30,000 Raised
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
Contact: Andrew Reagan, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 01/23/2024
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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
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UndauntedK12

$500,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Jonathan Klein, Co-Founder
Presentation Date: 10/24/2023
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Harambee House

$155,500 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Harambee house is organizing the Southeast Environmental Justice Summit on June 7-11th in Atlanta, Georgia. This summit will bring together front-line community organizers with utilities, businesses, energy service companies, and federal agency representatives to prepare them to apply for new federal funding opportunities under IRA and other federal programs. An output of this summit will be a draft 10 year environmental justice plan for the 8 states in EPA Region 4 including: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Geography: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Dr. Mildred McCain, Founder
Presentation Date: 05/02/2023
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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
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Rural Democracy Initiative

$240,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Sara Jaynes, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 02/07/2023
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Ohio Environmental Council

$267,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Ohio LCV affiliate is leading in-state Inflation Reduction Act coordination, collaboration, and technical assistance efforts
Geography: Ohio
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Nolan Rutschilling, Managing Director of Energy Policy
Presentation Date: 01/24/2023
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American Independent

$205,755 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
A newspaper with crossword puzzles and broad stories distributed to free to swing voters in non-urban areas of Ohio and other battleground states with pro-Democratic newsworthy stories.
Geography: Ohio
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Danny Kazin, Senior Advisor
Presentation Date: 10/04/2022
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Emily's List & Galvanize USA

$595,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Both Emily's List and Galvanize USA developed and deployed paid media campaigns related to women's reproductive rights.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4
Contact: Jackie Payne, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 10/04/2022
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Additional Hold the House for Climate Investments

$1,487,493 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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

$2,194,410 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Greg Rock, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/27/2022
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Working America

$342,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Matt Morrison, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/20/2022
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Movement Voter Project

$50,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Yulissa Mendez, Climate Vote Fund Director
Presentation Date: 08/30/2022
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We Make the Future

$46,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Anika Fassia, Co-Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/23/2022
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Climate Votes PAC

$720,500 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact: Pete Maysmith, Senior VP of Campaigns
Presentation Date: 07/26/2022
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