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$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
Contact:
Caroline Spears, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 11/12/2024
$39,000 Raised | $5,500 Match Remaining
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
Contact:
Daniel Squadron, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 11/12/2024
$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
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- New Era Colorado - $10,000
- OneColorado - $10,000
- Mainstream Colorado - $20,000
- Conservation Colorado - $30,000
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- Georgia - $210,000
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- Black Male Voter Project - $110,000
- EcoWomanist Institute - $15,000
- Atlanta Glow - $10,000
- AAPI Victory Fund - $50,000
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- Nevada - $100,000
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- Nevada Alliance - $50,000
- Make the Road Nevada - $50,000
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- North Carolina - $253,000
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- North Carolina Democratic Party - $200,000
- El Puente - $25,000
- BluePrint NC - $25,000
- MekDems - $3,000
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- Michigan - $105,000
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- Michigan LCV - 50,000
- AAPI Victory Fund - $30,000
- Raising Voices for Asian Families - $20,000
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- Montana - $31,000
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- Montana Conservation Voters - $31,000
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- Ohio - $576,000
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- Ohio Organizing Collaborative - $325,000
- Greater Cleveland Congregations - $150,000
- Young Latino Network -$51,000
- Ohio Alliance for Community Education - $50,000
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- Texas - $52,631
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- Indivisible Texas - $52,631
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- Wisconsin - $330,000
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- 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
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- Multi-State - $57,000
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- 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
$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
$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
$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
$150,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Down Home North Carolina is building a statewide network of member-leaders who advocate for economic, climate, and racial justice in rural and small-town communities. They are successfully establishing a permanent, year-round organizing infrastructure in North Carolina’s rural areas by leveraging member-leaders who are deeply rooted in their communities. This project will utilize Down Home’s network to educate rural voters about the historic climate investment opportunities available to their communities while directing individuals interested in accessing federal financial benefits to the WorkMoney resource center.
Geography: North Carolina
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Todd Zimmer, Co-Director
Presentation Date: 06/11/2024
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$20,000 Raised
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
Contact:
Sean Kidney, CEO and Founder
Presentation Date: 01/09/2024
$117,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact:
Kerry O'Neil, Chief Executive Officer
Presentation Date: 11/28/2023
$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
$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact:
Matt Traldi, Founder and CEO
Presentation Date: 10/10/2023
$105,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact:
Beth Soholt, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 10/10/2023
$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
$205,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact:
David Terry, President
Presentation Date: 02/21/2023
$15,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
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
Contact:
Mandara Meyers, Chief Program Officer
Presentation Date: 02/21/2023
$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
$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
$540,957 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
A national texting firm which develops and delivers highly tested partisan and non-partisan GOTV messages to increase voter turnout.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Yoni Landau, CEO
Presentation Date: 10/04/2022
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:
- $600k - Working Families Party
- $450k - House Majority PAC
- $109k - Vote Vets
- $106.2k - Voter Participation Center
- $69k - Fuse’s Voter Guides
- $52.5k - Environmental Voter Project
- $35.9k - Lea Webb NY Senator (52nd a nested district) Candidate Campaign
- $65k - Other Candidate Campaigns
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Presentation Date: 10/01/2022
$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
$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
$375,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
An independent expenditure effort to boost resources and support for state legislative races with a focus on majority making competitive races.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
David Cohen, Co-CEO & Founder
Presentation Date: 09/16/2022
$50,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
A hard-side effort to boost resources and support for state legislative races that prioritizes majority making competitive races.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4
Contact:
Leslie Martes, VP of Political & Strategic Initiatives
Presentation Date: 09/16/2022
$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
$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
$43,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Deploying messaging narrative of extreme MAGA republicans want are causing a loss of freedom
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4
Contact:
Navin Nayak, President
Presentation Date: 08/23/2022
$160,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Support for state-based, youth-focused organizations
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Davis Hammet, President, Loud Light - AYA Iowa Affiliate
Presentation Date: 08/09/2022
$160,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
At scale national youth organizing focused on swing-states and districts.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Leah Qusba, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/09/2022
$160,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Youth-led internship, relational outreach, and other creative, cost-effective programs
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Contact:
Zev Shapiro, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 08/09/2022
$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
$141,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Elect climate leaders through grant giving
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Matt Ewing, Co-Founder & CEO
Presentation Date: 04/12/2022