The Foundaton awarded the following grants in our 2008 grant cycle.
Alliance Foundation for Community Health
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Cambridge, Massachusetts
($100,000/one year)
December 2008
To support the aggressive deployment of Cambridge Energy Alliance’s comprehensive outreach and marketing strategy that includes neighborhood campaigns, a web-based viral marketing effort, improved media communications and a recognition program for residential and commercial participants. Additionally this grant will support a consultant to assist with local large-scale pilot energy projects and to develop strategies with the local utility and the federal Department of Energy on residential weatherization initiatives.
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Washington, DC
($15,000/six months)
April 2008
To support the wide dissemination of the findings of a groundbreaking study – The Size of the U.S. Energy Efficiency Market: Generating a More Complete Picture. The study showcases the impact energy efficiency has on the nation’s economy and the potential powerful economic effects of increased efficiency investments.
Conservation Services Group
Westborough, Massachusetts
($25,000/one year)
September 2008
To support the design and implementation of a utility-based, on-bill financing system. This system will create a pool of easily accessible and low-cost financing for cost-saving energy efficiency measures that target low and middle income residences in Massachusetts.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($130,000/one year)
December 2008
To support the Atlantic Canada Sustainable Energy Coalition, comprised of four advocacy organizations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island, as it continues to provide the vision, strategic direction and public outreach to accomplish and implement progressive energy policies in these provinces.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, Maine
($120,000/one year)
September 2008
To support energy efficiency research and advocacy work, with special attention to the implementation of recent energy policy reforms in New England states. This funding also supports Environment Northeast’s role as adviser and provider of technical assistance for the Atlantic Canada Sustainable Energy Coalition serving the four Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York City, New York
($50,000/one year)
September 2008
To support the design of a large-scale energy efficiency implementation program in New York City. This plan will recommend financing and delivery mechanisms for a major buildings efficiency initiative to help New York City achieve its goal of a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (NEEP)
Washington, DC
($150,000/18 months)
April 2008
To continue promoting the adoption and implementation of regulations to assure that the six New England states meet high performance standards in all K-12 public school design and construction and major school rehabilitation investments. Relying on the adaptation of California High Performance School (CHPS) to New England conditions, NEEP seeks to raise energy efficiency rates above state standards and to further develop its website to explain the cost-effectiveness of new school building designs.
The Jordan Institute
Concord, NH
($50,000 / one year)
July 2008
To support its Granite State Energy Efficiency program for schools as it expands its energy assessments to include tackling heating fuel use, an important and often neglected efficiency opportunity that results in significant environmental benefits and cost savings.
Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
Atlanta, Georgia
($25,000/one year)
September 2008
To support the launch of a model city energy efficiency competition in the southeastern United States, shaped by the experiences and activities of the Cambridge Energy Alliance.
American Forest Foundation
Washington, DC
($75,000/one year)
September 2008
To support staff coordination and facilitation costs for the Forest-Climate Working Group, a collaborative of more than forty organizations working to develop consensus recommendations for including the role of forests in emerging federal climate policies.
EcoAdapt
Washington, DC
($25,000/one year)
December 2008
To provide general support to a new organization that will serve as a coordinating entity for scientifically rigorous climate change adaptation plan and strategy development. Its’ plans include building central access to an array of critical informational resources, trainings, publications, and engagement with policy makers.
Ecotrust
Portland, OR
($30,000/one year)
April 2008
To support leadership of a collaborative effort to shape the forest-carbon offset provisions in the emerging Western Climate Initiative.
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
Bozeman, MT
($40,000/ one year)
July 2008
To stimulate collaboration among conservation organizations, federal and state agencies, scientists and landowners that will address the impacts of climate change on natural systems and wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Land Trust Alliance
Washington, D.C.
($30,000/ one year)
July 2008
To support the development of a comprehensive strategy and a campaign seeking to mobilize Alliance members (some 1,200 organizations) to devise responses to the disruptive challenges associated with climate change.
Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
($2,000/six months)
April 2008
To support the University if Maine’s development of a Catalog of Climate Change Investment Opportunities, which will assess all of the climate-related research, advocacy, energy and conservation work that is currently underway in the State of Maine.
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
($25,000/one year)
April 2008
To organize and stage a conference on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Building on the 2007 McKinsey & Company greenhouse gas emission report, the conference will address the role of the U.S. in reducing emissions through public abatement policies and private sector initiatives emphasizing energy efficiency.
The Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Washington, DC
($40,000/one year)
April 2008
To organize, convene and facilitate a series of four regional workshops to engage the energy and forestry communities in an effort to assess the risks of wood-based bioenergy development to important forest ecosystem values, and to develop recommendations for strengthening existing policy safeguards to ensure sustainability in the face of these increased demands on forests.
The Sierra Club, Maine Chapter
Portland, Maine
($25,000/one year)
September 2008
To support the Chapter’s work with partners and the State of Maine on forest conservation initiatives.
Two Countries, One Forest
Warner, New Hampshire
($80,000/one year)
December 2008
To support the organization’s transition to new leadership as it continues to gather partners, influence and empower sub regional conservation agendas, and formulates its strategic direction for landscape conservation in the Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion, spanning the forested landscape from New York to Nova Scotia.
The Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, CA
($30,000/one year)
April 2008
To support coordination of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a collaboration of organizations working to develop consensus-based policy recommendations on forest carbon sequestration protocols in the context of emerging federal climate policy.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, NY
($40,000/ one year)
July 2008
Continuing support for the Society’s collaboration with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to develop a framework and implementation strategies to address the impacts of climate change on natural systems in the 2,000-mile Yellowstone to Yukon landscape of the Northern Rockies.
Center for Public Interest Research
The Student PIRGs
Boston, MA
($36,000/two years)
April 2008
To support the work of the Student PIRGs’ Global Warming Project in New England, which organizes on more than 23 campuses in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Global Warming Project blends peer education on global warming solutions with advocacy and action, connecting students to issues and solutions beyond their campus boundaries.
College of the Atlantic
($25,000/one year)
April 2008
To provide partial funding to organize and carry out the development of a protocol to guide the purchase of greenhouse gas offset investments by some 500 American colleges. The initiative is being carried out by the Presidents Climate Commitment under the auspices of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Sustainable Endowments Institute
New York, NY
($40,000/two years)
April 2008
To support the work of the Sustainable Endowments Institute as it grows its Summer Research Fellows program, which builds its capacity to include more institutions in the College Sustainability Report Card, and also supporting its efforts to develop an improved website to respond to the increasing interest and popularity of the Report Card.
The Commonwealth Foundation
Massachusetts Climate Action Network
Boston, Massachusetts
($65,000 / one year)
December 2008
To support the expanding network as it grows to new communities and households through its “Cool Mass Campaign,” advocates on behalf of its members for state policies that support climate solutions, and supplies tools and support to Massachusetts citizens interested in living a more low carbon lifestyle.
University of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Carbon Challenge
Durham, NH
($20,000 / one year)
July 2008
To support the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge as it continues to design and deliver innovative energy saving and cost effective strategies and tools for households, businesses and municipalities that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Alaska Conservation Foundation
Portland, OR
($15,000/oneyear)
April 2008
To bolster revenue-generating capacities in order to leverage new funds into an expanding agenda designed to reinforce land, water, forest and climate programs in the 49th State.
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network (CEGN)
Toronto, Canada
($10,000/two years)
April 2008
To support its efforts to energize Canadian philanthropy directed toward the protection of Canada’s vast natural resources with special attention to strategies centered on developing global climate solutions.
Center for Whole Communities
($75,000/two years)
April 2008
To augment the Center’s renewable energy campaign at Knoll Farm in Vermont through expanded facilities that will rely on renewable energy in an effort to reach the point of being a net energy provider to the local electric distribution grid.
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