This grant will enable Architecture 2030 to lead a collaboration that will help cities develop equitable pathways to eliminate carbon emissions resulting from buildings while also enhancing their preparedness for disruptions to the electricity grid and other risks.  View Website

This 2-year grant will advance the efforts of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to help U.S. cities adopt and implement comprehensive and equity-driven energy efficiency policies and programs. ACEEE will provide cities with the resources and assistance needed to track and improve their energy-efficiency policies and programs, center equity in those policies and programs, and incorporate equitable energy efficiency as a core strategy for community resilience. This grant supports the Environment Program’s efforts to strengthen the evidence base and develop the tools needed for equitable energy system transformation. View Website

This grant will enable the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to build on its successful work to help U.S. cities adopt equity-driven energy efficiency policies and programs. View Website

This 2-year grant will enable the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to build on its successful work to help U.S. cities adopt equity-driven energy efficiency policies and programs. This grant will support two key activities: 1) working in partnership with community-based organizations (CBOs) and city staff to design and implement equity-driven approaches to efficiency, including through hosting an Energy Democracy working group and producing the City Clean Energy Scorecard; and 2) advancing efficiency in overlooked housing sectors, with a focus on those most prevalent in low-income communities and communities of color. View Website

This grant will enable the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the leading organization working to advance energy efficiency in the U.S., to continue and deepen its engagement with cities. View Website

This grant will allow American Rivers to help facilitate a convening of Kresge’s water grantees and other experts to better coordinate national efforts around water, equity and climate change. Impacts of a changing climate, including extreme temperatures, prolonged drought, and intensified storms, demand that water-system infrastructure become more resilient and water-system governance become more inclusive for these systems to meet the needs of those that depend on them, especially low-income and people-of-color communities. View Website

This grant will help American Rivers promote the equitable implementation of nature-based water management solutions in Atlanta, Georgia through integrated, natural, and equitable water management in underserved, historically marginalized and frequently flooded communities. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Anthropocene Alliance (A2), a national network of frontline communities that have survived flooding and seek solutions to climate-related flooding, public health, and integrated water-management issues. View Website

This grant will enable the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) to develop best practices for equitable community choice aggregation (CCA). A project of the Environmental Health Coalition, CEJA is a statewide alliance that promotes environmental justice by advancing policy solutions on behalf of its member organizations, grassroots groups that, in turn, represent low-income communities of color across California. View Website

This grant will support the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), a project of the Environmental Health Coalition and one of the nation’s leading statewide alliances working to advance environmental health and justice. View Website

This grant will support the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA), an international network of cities at the vanguard of navigating the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. View Website

This grant will allow Carpe Diem West to continue to support a learning community addressing the intertwined challenges of climate change, water management, and equity in the American West.  View Website

This grant supports Carpe Diem West’s (CDW) efforts to transfer the Healthy Headwaters Alliance (HHA) to a new organizational home. For the past seven years, CDW has led the HHA, an engaged, diverse leadership team of water utility executives, scientists, NGOs, and community and water-justice leaders that advocate for and implement equitable, science-based water and climate action. View Website

This grant will enable CEC Stuyvesant Cove (dba: Solar One), an environmental and workforce-development organization based in New York City, to expand its Here Comes Solar program.  The renewable energy market must be shaped to work for all types of buildings and communities. Solar One has developed models to enable low-income households and the affordable housing market to benefit from solar power.  This grant will enable Solar One to expand this work, with a particular focus on two models—shared community solar and resilient power. View Website

This grant will enable CEC Stuyvesant Cove (dba: Solar One), an environmental and workforce-development organization based in New York City, to continue its Here Comes Solar program.   View Website

Working with grassroots communities, policymakers and researchers, the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) conducts studies and provides community education on energy, environment and development issues to ensure solutions are democratic, sustainable and socially just. This grant will provide general operating support for the CEED. View Website

This project support grant advances Center for Neighborhood Technology’s research to document the impact of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) on property values across U.S. cities. It is anticipated that this research will incite more dialogue on the use and merits of GSI in municipalities, as well as fill a large gap in the field. This work aligns with the Environment Team’s Climate Resilience and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) strategy that is focused on providing cities evidence to make the case for climate-smart water management solutions.   View Website

This grant will support the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) in its efforts to advance energy democracy, ensuring that low-income communities benefit from clean energy View Website

This grant will support the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) in its efforts to advance energy democracy.  CSI is a national policy strategy organization that catalyzes community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity, and it has identified energy democracy as a key priority with extraordinary potential to enhance opportunity in low-income communities and communities of color.  View Website

This grant will support pre-development work for pilot projects demonstrating the feasibility of using innovative finance mechanisms to advance green infrastructure solutions for low-income communities in the Chesapeake Bay region. View Website