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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

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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Texas Grassroots Powerbuilding - Part 2

$634,360 Raised
Texas’s rapidly changing demographics warrant significant long-term power-building investments, while the positive polling trends for 2024 indicate a promising path to a potential Allred victory in Texas that could deliver Senate and trifecta control. In response, 1.5°CSG, in collaboration with Way to Win, Texas Future Project, One for Democracy, and Movement Voter Project, is excited to announce our second $500,000 matching funds challenge. Contributions to any of the three featured organizations will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of your support.
  • Rise AAPI uses direct mail, phonebanking, ethnic media, and digital campaigns – including in-language content – to engage AAPI Texan voters to boost progressive turnout among the AAPI community. Contact: Nabila Mansoor
  • Planned Parenthood Texas Votes Victory Fund targets low-propensity voters through field outreach, phone banks, digital efforts, and social pressure mail, leveraging data to maximize voter activation. Contact: Drucilla Tigner
  • Common Defense mobilizes veterans using veteran-to-veteran outreach through relational organizing, direct mail, texting, digital ads, TV, and earned media. Their messaging is tailored to resonate with the military community and boost support for Colin Allred. Contact: Alex McCoy
Geography: Texas
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 10/08/2024
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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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Texas Grassroots Powerbuilding

$1,210,500 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Texas’s rapidly changing demographics warrant significant long-term power-building investments, while the positive polling trends for 2024 indicate a promising path to a potential Allred victory in Texas that could deliver Senate and trifecta control. In response, 1.5°CSG, in collaboration with Way to Win, is excited to announce our largest-ever $500,000 matching funds challenge. Contributions to any of the three featured organizations will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of your support.
  • Communications Workers of America (CWA) which leads the “Fight for Democracy” program, focused on mobilizing Black and Latino voters in Texas' five largest counties through canvassing, calling, texting, and paid media. Contact: Derrick Osobase
  • Texas Organizing Project’s (TOP) voter contact program engages voters with canvassing, calls, texts, relational outreach, mail, and digital. They focus on empowering Black voters through organizing in key Texas counties. Contact: Brianna Brown
  • Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a leading voter engagement model, targeting young Texans through comprehensive GOTV efforts including canvassing, digital ads, and campus outreach events across the state. Contact: Val Benavidez
Geography: Texas
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 09/17/2024
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Nevada Conservation League

$20,000 Raised
Nevada Conservation League (NCL) proposes an investment to support known climate champion, Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, in what is sure to be a tight-race against extreme election-denier, April Becker, for a seat on Nevada’s powerful Clark County Commission. The commission is arguably the most powerful governing body in Nevada; tasked with regulating the most populated county in Nevada, overseeing their number one economic driver, The Strip, and most importantly for the nation, certifying elections. As the political voice of Nevada’s conservation community and an affiliate of LCV, NCL works to protect their climate, air, water, land, and health by translating conservation values into political and policy priorities.
Geography: Nevada
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Kristee Watson, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 07/23/2024
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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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Pennsylvania United

$150,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Pennsylvania United is a membership organization in Western PA that has played an important role in supporting the election of the Mayor of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Executive, and progressive federal candidates, all based on a shared vision of climate, jobs, and justice. PA United is part of a broad coalition focused on implementing the Inflation Reduction Act by decarbonizing large buildings. This project will expand PA United’s efforts to include canvassing 20,000 doors with scripts educating voters about the benefits the IRA is delivering to their communities while directing individuals interested in accessing federal financial benefits to the WorkMoney resource center.
Geography: Pennsylvania
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Alex Hanson, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 06/11/2024
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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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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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Save our Schools

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Save our Schools is organizing around protecting public school funding, an issue that has allowed them to recruit and maintain 16,000 volunteers statewide. They are currently raising funds to expand their volunteer coordination staff from 8 to 16 expanding the reach of their already cost effective volunteer powered voter registration program. Save our Schools has been uniquely successful at reaching, registering, and turning out voters in non-urban parts of Arizona with a special focus on competitive state legislative races, many of which are nested within the States’ competitive congressional districts.
Geography: Arizona
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Beth Lewis, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 04/30/2024
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One Fair Wage

$200,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
One Fair Wage Action is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of new and unlikely voters, especially youth and people of color, in MI, OH and AZ using a peer-to-peer voter engagement model focused on the priority issue for those voters this election cycle: the cost of living. They are registering tens of thousands of new voters more cheaply and effectively as part of signature gathering for minimum wage ballot measures that will raise wages for 3.5 million workers and mobilize a minimum of 350,000 new, unlikely voters, with significant impact on Presidential and Senate races this fall.
Geography: Arizona
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Saru Jayaraman, President
Presentation Date: 04/30/2024
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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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Nevada Clean Energy Fund

$32,000 Raised
The Nevada Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) is dedicated to fostering a thriving, affordable, and accessible clean energy economy in Nevada, with a primary emphasis on supporting frontline and underserved communities. With roughly $350 million in pending federal grant applications and the anticipated arrival of federal grants in July 2024, NCEF recognizes the pressing need to bolster its capacity. Presently staffed with four essential operations employees, the addition of one program staff offers the potential to double the project pipeline's readiness to deploy resources following the receipt of federal funds from the EPA. This additional staff member would enable us to have a more rapid and significant impact towards advancing clean energy initiatives in Nevada during the 2024 calendar year.
Geography: Nevada
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Kirsten Stasio, CEO
Presentation Date: 11/07/2023
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Somos Votantes

$206,500 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Somos Votantes has initiated a field program with seven canvassers dedicated to Nevada and another seven in Arizona, with a focus on educating Latino communities about the opportunities provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Through a comprehensive approach involving canvassing, community events, mail programs, digital advertising, and local radio, Somos Votantes casts a wide net to inform Latinos about the economic opportunities brought to them by the Biden administration's IRA. Those who they encourage to access these financial benefits are seamlessly connected with WorkMoney, which takes the lead in facilitating their enrollment in IRA programs.
Geography: Arizona, Nevada
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Melissa Morales, Founder & President
Presentation Date: 11/07/2023
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Arizona Coalition for Change

$180,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Arizona Coalition for Change (C4C), a 501(c)3 Black-led community organization focuses on community empowerment and civic power-building including advocating for progressive policies like voter justice, economic and environmental justice, and youth justice in marginalized Arizona neighborhoods. Notably, they've launched the Clean Energy Clear Lungs (CECL) campaign, promoting clean energy and reducing air pollution in marginalized communities through education and resources while leveraging Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) benefits. This campaign also nurtures lifelong advocates for environmental justice at both state and federal levels. C4C's education program triages interested parties to WorkMoney's resource center to streamline each individuals enrollment process.
Geography: Arizona
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Reginald Bolding Sena Mohammed, Founder Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/26/2023
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Resiliency Law Center

$160,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Resiliency Law Center champions a fair balance between local communities and corporate interests in Puerto Rico's redevelopment. They prevent harmful projects and misuse of federal resources, initially as a project of the University of Puerto Rico's law department and now as an independent organization. With dedicated teams of lawyers, they tackle significant cases impacting Puerto Ricans. Alongside legal action, they engage in grassroots advocacy campaigns opposing detrimental projects and supporting positive initiatives.
Geography: Puerto Rico
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Adi Marinez, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 06/13/2023
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Sembrando Sentido

$170,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
 Sembrando Sentido is addressing corruption and misallocation of federal resources through a big data approach to enhance transparency. They have partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to develop a tool that captures funding data in a uniform format and tracks resource movement in Puerto Rico. Algorithms identify red flags for potential corruption and slow-moving funds, while green flags indicate positive outcomes. They use this tool to create digestible resources for community advocacy. Through these efforts, they are empowering communities, holding government agencies accountable, and promoting efficient resource allocation in Puerto Rico.
Geography: Puerto Rico
Funding Type: c3
Contact: Issell Masses, Founder & Executive Director
Presentation Date: 06/13/2023
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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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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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Somos Votantes

$64,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Deploying the winning jobs messaging narrative through grassroots engagement of Latino voters in Nevada and Arizona.
Geography: Arizona, Nevada
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact: Melissa Morales, Founder & President
Presentation Date: 08/23/2022
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