United States Energy Foundation

The United States Energy Foundation envisions a healthy, safe, equitable economy powered by clean energy. This award supports building power and diversity in the climate and environmental sector. Funds will go to the Racial Equity and Democracy Fund to expand, strengthen, and diversify the leadership of environmental organizations in the United States.

Since 1991 the United States Energy Foundation has supported education and analysis to promote policy solutions that build markets for clean energy technology. Despite the increasingly polarized political landscape, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other innovations that improve productivity but pollute less than conventional technology continue to garner broad political support. Working closely with other funding partners, United States Energy Foundation created and supports a powerful, diverse network of state coalitions coordinated by an unbranded campaign infrastructure to share accurate information about the social, economic, and health benefits of clean energy with policymakers, businesses, and consumers. This award supports work in 23 states that represent 70 percent of the country's power sector emissions.

Since 1991, the United States Energy Foundation has supported education and analysis to promote policy solutions that build markets for clean energy technology and fight climate change. Working closely with other funding partners, United States Energy Foundation (USEF) created and supports a powerful, diverse network of state coalitions coordinated by an unbranded campaign infrastructure to share accurate information about the social, economic, and health benefits of clean energy with policymakers, businesses, and consumers. This award supports the Midwest Climate and Democracy project housed in the Racial Equity and Democracy (RED) Fund at USEF. The RED Fund recognizes that addressing climate change requires advancing equity and protecting democracy. The connections between climate change, systemic racism, and attacks on our democracy are apparent; to solve any of these, you must address them all. Since its inception at the end of 2019, the RED Fund has deployed over $9 million to more than 40 organizations to distribute resources and relationships as USEF builds formal relationships with coordinated nonpartisan voter outreach programs.

Since 1991 the United States Energy Foundation has supported education and analysis to promote policy solutions that build markets for clean energy technology. Despite the increasingly polarized political landscape, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other innovations that improve productivity but pollute less than conventional technology continue to garner broad political support. Working closely with other funding partners, United States Energy Foundation created and supports a powerful, diverse network of state coalitions coordinated by an unbranded campaign infrastructure to share accurate information about the social, economic, and health benefits of clean energy with policymakers, businesses, and consumers. This award supports the expansion of this network to 25 states whose collective potential reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from a cleaner energy sector could meet half of the entire U.S. commitment to the Paris Agreement.