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$25,200 Raised
The NAYA Action Fund is raising funds to defeat Initiative 2117 in Washington State and protect the progress made under the Climate Commitment Act of 2021. They are mobilizing a paid field team for door-to-door canvassing and phone banking, while also launching a robust social media campaign and targeted mailers. Financial support will help inform voters, amplify their message, and ensure the community's voice is heard. Together, they aim to safeguard the environment and build a sustainable future for all.
Geography: Washington, Oregon
Funding Type: c4
Contact:
William Miller, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/12/2024
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$100,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Lawyers for Good Government organizes a robust network of 125,000 volunteer legal advocates across all fifty states. This dedicated community offers pro-bono legal services to protect human and civil rights while creating the social and economic conditions that lead to true equity. Their Climate Change and Environmental Justice program provides essential legal support to marginalized communities empowering them to effectively navigate federal funding opportunities. This initiative plays a crucial role in promoting equitable access to benefits, including those established by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c3
Contact:
Jillian Blanchard, Director of Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program
Presentation Date: 09/05/2023
$200,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
The Center for Planning Excellence is taking an NGO leadership role in building out state collaborative efforts around accessing federal funds, including the IRA, and deploying those funds well. In particular, they are working to establish a strong state energy office through legislative and other advocacy efforts.
Geography: Louisiana
Funding Type: c3
Contact:
Camille Manning-Broome, President & CEO
Presentation Date: 08/08/2023
$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
$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
$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
Additional Davante Lewis Public Service Commissioner Runoff Investments
$143,050 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
In addition to 1.5°CSG’s fundraising efforts for Together Louisiana and POWER Coalition for Equity & Justice in support of Davante Lewis’ election to Public Service Commissioner District 3 in Louisiana, 1.5°CSG also raised $69.5k for Davante Lewis’ candidate campaign and $73.6k which was allocated to other grassroots organizations positioned to positively impact this important race.
Geography: Louisiana
Funding Type: c4
Presentation Date: 12/01/2022
$168,700 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
An experienced organization focused on expanding the electorate by reaching disenfranchised communities which runs direct programmatic activities and also sub-grants to a large number of other aligned grassroots organizations.
Geography: Louisiana
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Morgan Shannon, Deputy Director
Presentation Date: 11/15/2022
$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
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
$220,000 Raised | Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Pooled resource grant giver that supports grassroots groups organizing in small towns and rural areas. This presentation highlighted two sub-grantee of RDI: Black Male Voter Project and Progress North.
Geography: National
Funding Type: c4c3
Contact:
Sara Jaynes, Executive Director
Presentation Date: 09/06/2022
$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
$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