1.5°Climate Strategies Group Projects - Member View

| Battleground States & Districts

| Federal Climate Action

Home Energy Efficiency Team

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

HEET is a nonprofit reimagining and redesigning our energy system to meet the needs of the future. In 2017 HEET pioneered the idea, now made real, of thermal utilities providing building heating and cooling through interconnectable geothermal networks. These networks deliver local, clean, least-cost thermal energy. This invisible energy is everywhere including the air, the ground, and even the sea. Near HEET’s office, Boston Harbor is 3.4℃ warmer today than in 1950. That’s too hot for lobsters. It’s also enough 'anthrothermal' energy to heat over one million homes. Join the lobsters in supporting #ThermalOpportunity mapping, making invisible solutions visible.

Geography: Massachusetts

Funding Type: c3

Presenter(s): Zeyneb Magavi, Executive Director

Presentation Date: 11/04/2025

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance

| Start-Up/Innovative Project

Utah Clean Energy

$165,100 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

For 25 years, Utah Clean Energy has advanced Utah’s clean energy future through education, collaboration, and innovative policy engagement—helping bring gigawatts of solar and wind power online. Now, the organization is turning its expertise to the next frontier: next-generation geothermal energy. Utah is uniquely positioned to lead. With the nation’s first utility-scale next-gen geothermal project and a groundbreaking national research lab, the state offers a powerful foundation for expanding this transformative technology. Yet its potential remains widely underrecognized. In partnership with industry, communities, and decision-makers, Utah Clean Energy will raise awareness of next-gen geothermal through strategic outreach, education, and collaborative initiatives—helping make geothermal a cornerstone of a carbon-free energy future in Utah and beyond.

Geography: Utah

Funding Type: c3

Presenter(s): Sarah Wright, CEO | Logan Mitchell, Climate Scientist and Energy Analyst

Presentation Date: 10/14/2025

| Start-Up/Innovative Project

| Red States Investments

NY Renews

$97,295 Raised | $1,353 Match Remaining

NY Renews is a multi-sector, multiracial, and intergenerational climate, jobs, and justice coalition of 400 organizations creating a path to a 100% clean energy economy in NY. As the main force behind the passage of NYS’s historic climate law in 2019, NY Renews is the leading coalition working to ensure the mandates and goals of the law are adequately funded and fully realized. Their 2025 and 2026 plans include: (1) watchdogging NY’s Climate Law at a time when the governor is failing to lead on climate; (2) ensuring that the state's proposed cap-and-invest program remains the primary vessel to fund the climate law; and (3) building the capacity of the communities they represent to strengthen the movement, deepen alignment, and lead on climate justice.

Geography: New York

Funding Type: c4c3

Presenter(s): Morgan Stockman, Development Director

Presentation Date: 09/25/2025

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance

Protect Our Winters

$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

POW’s mission is to lead the outdoor movement for climate action. We are organizing the Outdoor State to be the most powerful voice for climate in the U.S. Building on our national momentum, we are rolling out a local engagement strategy anchored by a new clean energy campaign designed to activate all levels of the POW community and accelerate decarbonization across the country. POW is committed to breaking local development logjams by educating communities and organizing targeted, on-the-ground advocacy campaigns that drive specific clean energy projects forward. We are shifting the cultural, societal and structural norms to ensure prioritization of local clean energy development.

Geography: Colorado

Funding Type: c3

Presenter(s): Lindsey Halvorson, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns

Presentation Date: 08/26/2025

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

Investing in Elections for Climate

Georgia Conservation Voters Action Fund

$809,750 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!

Georgia Conservation Voters Action Fund (GCVAF) is a Section 527 SuperPAC LCV affiliate that supports candidates they trust to do the right thing for people and the planet. This year, there are two unprecedented elections for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), a body of elected officials that makes key decisions about the cost of electricity and which energy sources are used. GCVAF is developing a robust and strategic electoral campaign to turn out progressive voters across the state who have the power to replace anti-climate incumbents beholden to Georgia Power with champions for Georgia families and Georgia’s climate future.

Geography: Georgia

Funding Type: PACc4

Presenter(s): Allie Brown, Deputy Director

Presentation Date: 08/12/2025

| Battleground States & Districts

| Down Ballot Races

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

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance

| Agriculture and Nature Based Solutions

| Start-Up/Innovative Project

AK PIRG

$34,083 Raised

Facing a severe natural gas shortfall, Alaska is making immediate decisions on LNG import contracts for the next 30 years. A lack of institutional leadership and predatory delay from Alaska's public utilities and state agencies have created the current crisis. While LNG imports are a necessary bridge as renewables are built, they are not a long-term solution. AK PIRG staunchly opposes expensive, long-term LNG obligations and is working extensively at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to keep the lights on in the short term and protect consumers from being locked into LNG and rising market prices in the long term.

Geography: Alaska

Funding Type: c3

Presenter(s): Natalie Kiley-Bergen, Energy Lead

Presentation Date: 03/07/2025

| Red States Investments

Climate Hawai'i

$12,668 Raised

Climate Hawai‘i leverages transformative collaboration to accelerate Hawaii's equitable transition to a resilient, prosperous, climate safe future. Given the critical juncture in the islands’ journey to achieve its “first in the nation” 100% renewable energy law, Climate Hawai‘i seeks to develop a shared understanding of the state’s potential pathways toward a low-cost, low-carbon future among communities and key decision leaders. We believe an expert analysis of the most feasible plans—and an understanding of what it will take to achieve them—will help Hawai‘i become a scalable model and living laboratory for others seeking to reach ambitious climate goals.

Geography: Hawaii

Funding Type: c3

Presenter(s): Chris Benjamin, Chair

Presentation Date: 03/07/2025

| Coordination, Collaboration, and Technical Assistance