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Action for the Climate Emergency

2 Grants

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Charlestown, MA

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support education, engagement, and activation on climate action in the Midwest
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Active Transportation Alliance

2 Grants

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Chicago, IL

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign coalition
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Illinois Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign

Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$200,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean transportation strategies in Minnesota at the intersection of racial equity and community power

Association of Minnesota Counties

1 Grant

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Saint Paul, MN

$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity in Greater Minnesota counties to successfully apply for state and federal grants

Atlas Public Policy, LLC

2 Grants

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Washington, DC

$75,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide capacity building support in the continued development and execution of the Buildings Hub data analysis platform, and to deliver transportation electrification analysis for Midwest states
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide capacity building support in the continued development and execution of the Buildings Hub data analysis platform

Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$450,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$260,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and for professional development support for new leadership

BIG NFP

1 Grant

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Chicago, IL

$475,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Biomimicry for Social Innovation

2 Grants

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Santa Fe, NM

$30,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to nurture women leaders in climate work, especially emerging BIPOC leaders in the Midwest
$28,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the 2021 Living Systems Leadership training workshop by providing scholarships, and to support BSI to meaningfully adapt to pandemic-related contexts

Black Appalachian Coalition

2 Grants

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Ottawa Hills, OH

$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Black Appalachian Coalition

BlueGreen Alliance Foundation

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop and advance innovative climate and energy transition policies in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin that achieve carbon reduction goals while building a clean, thriving, and equitable economy
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance innovative climate and energy transition strategies in Minnesota that achieve carbon reduction goals while building a clean, thriving, and equitable economy
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable climate, clean energy, and just transition policies in Minnesota

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

4 Grants

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Madison, WI

$350,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build organizational capacity and to support Midwest states’ department of transportation in advancing people and community-centered climate and equity goals
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support applied research on air quality and health benefits impacts from Midwest energy and climate policy

Building Decarbonization Coalition

3 Grants

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Petaluma, CA

$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support equitable building decarbonization efforts in the Midwest
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity in support of Thermal Energy Networks
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Thermal Utility Reform Initiative and launch thermal network pilot projects in the Midwest

Business Council for Sustainable Energy

4 Grants

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Washington, DC

$64,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support educational outreach to stakeholders on the energy transition in Minnesota
$64,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support educational outreach to decision makers and stakeholders on the energy transition in the U.S and Minnesota
$32,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote BloombergNEF's annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook with a focus on Minnesota and Midwest clean energy markets
$32,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to promote the Bloomberg New Energy Finance's annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook with a focus on Minnesota and Midwest clean energy markets

CALSTART

1 Grant

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Pasadena, CA

$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with rural communities across the Midwest to advance EV adoption by providing them with resources and tools they need to successfully apply for state and federal resources and transition to zero-emissions fleets

Canary Media

1 Grant

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Boulder, CO

$100,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to facilitate the merger of Canary Media and Energy News Network

Center for American Progress

1 Grant

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Washington, DC

$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the From the State House to the White House Initiative to build upon local/state climate leadership to lay the roadmap for nationwide climate action

Center for Community Change

2 Grants

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Washington, DC

$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help community and labor leverage federal investments and use of Community Benefit Plans in developing more inclusive economies, while facilitating the transition to a clean energy economy
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Small Town Summit

Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Center for Energy and Environment

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$425,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to lay the groundwork for rapid, systematic and equitable building decarbonization in Minnesota
$725,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance equitable building decarbonization in Minnesota
$425,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to defend, evolve, and expand Minnesota’s energy efficiency policies, and to accelerate to a just and equitable decarbonized grid in Minnesota and the Midwest

Center for Popular Democracy

2 Grants

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Brooklyn, NY

$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a project of the Center for Popular Democracy: The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal and forum for organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and digital organizers
$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online journal focused on creating a forum for innovative conversations about organizing strategy and practice among community, labor, electoral, movement, and digital organizers

Center for Rural Affairs

5 Grants

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Lyons, NE

$250,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the capacity of Midwest communities to engage and elevate agriculture climate solutions and agriculture policy development
$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage diverse rural communities in Iowa and Minnesota on climate change
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to bolster climate change and sustainable agriculture policy development for federal farm policies
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to bolster climate change and climate-focused agriculture policy capacity
$300,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build long-term community organizing capacity through multi-issue advocacy and engagement in rural Minnesota and Iowa

Ceres

3 Grants

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Boston, MA

$600,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest, and to support the Climate Smart Agriculture Working Group
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize Ceres’ company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest
$50,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to mobilize Ceres’ company and investor partners to make the business case for state policies and regulations that spur an equitable transition to a decarbonized transportation system and a clean energy economy in the Midwest

Chisholm Legacy Project

1 Grant

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Baltimore, MD

$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund

1 Grant

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Milwaukee, WI

$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota

2 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$800,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$650,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

City of Minneapolis

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$50,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support strategic planning and development of strategic priorities to advance climate and equity in all city infrastructure investments and project development
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the continuous measurement of air quality and greenhouse gases at the block level and create a baseline for the city's Green Zones and surrounding Areas of Concentrated Poverty

City of St. Paul

2 Grants

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Saint Paul, MN

$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create a new Climate Action Coordinator position in the City's Office of Financial Services, to build capacity for the City of Saint Paul to accelerate its equitable climate action work
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support implementation of the city's Climate Action Plan

Clean Energy Economy Minnesota

5 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$500,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build a stronger and more equitable innovation ecosystem in Minnesota and the Midwest for energy and climate technologies
$475,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate equitable clean energy and climate solutions in the Midwest
$475,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund

1 Grant

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Rockford, IL

$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Clean Energy States Alliance

1 Grant

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Montpelier, VT

$75,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest states' efforts to implement federal programs

Clean Grid Alliance

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$700,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$600,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to support the Land & Liberty Coalition
$600,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Clean Up The River Environment

4 Grants

$600,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$75,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to initiate a landscape assessment of emerging climate technologies and build-out in rural Minnesota and how it will impact the communities’ health, including community engagement
$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$365,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage rural communities in Minnesota around clean energy and efficiency opportunities as well as to support a working lands strategy

Clean Wisconsin

2 Grants

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Madison, WI

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Climate Advocacy Lab

3 Grants

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Washington, DC

$500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity for equitable climate solutions in the Midwest
$500,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help climate advocates improve their public engagement work
$100,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance the goals of economic, racial, climate, and environmental justice in the Midwest

Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund

2 Grants

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Washington, DC

$6,500,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support; to do a landscape assessment of Ohio's climate justice organizing infrastructure to develop strategic climate grantmaking; and to support durable power building and grantmaking and changemaking strategy in Ohio
$4,000,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantmaking and technical assistance for BIPOC organizing on climate and clean energy in the Midwest

Climate Cabinet Education

2 Grants

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San Francisco, CA

$200,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help lawmakers cut emissions while reducing household costs by championing clean and affordable transportation, electricity, and clean and affordable finances across the Midwest
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy

Climate Generation

3 Grants

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Climate Jobs National Resource Center

3 Grants

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New York, NY

$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create state-based and state-led Climate Jobs coalitions in Wisconsin
$150,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the development of new Climate Jobs coalitions in Wisconsin and Michigan

Climate Land Leaders

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help farmland owners implement climate-friendly practices on their lands, advance climate initiatives and narratives

Coalition For Green Capital

1 Grant

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Washington DC, DC

$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Community Action Network

4 Grants

$150,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for continued program support to coordinate energy efficiency, health and safety improvements, and related work in the Bryant neighborhood of Ann Arbor
$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to coordinate decarbonization efforts in one of Ann Arbor's frontline neighborhoods
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for continued program support to design a pathway to equitably decarbonizing a frontline neighborhood
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to work with the Bryant community in Ann Arbor to develop a whole home assessment aimed at improving indoor comfort, health, and safety, all while decarbonizing the neighborhood

Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

1 Grant

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Dubuque, IA

$350,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to convene, educate and assist local communities in building a clean energy infrastructure and to provide technical assistance to support accessing and managing federal grants

Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown

6 Grants

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Johnstown, PA

$200,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for the Reimagine Appalachia program to transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
$150,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop local Community Economic Development Capacity Building Programs to transition away from fossil fuels
$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support participatory regranting by groups working in Ohio on critical climate and climate-related issues
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop local a Community Economic Development Capacity Building Program to support Ohio communities' transition from fossil fuels
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform Ohio and the Appalachian region through federal investment and state and local action

Community Members for Environmental Justice

1 Grant

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San Diego, CA

$346,878
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to deepen and expand efforts to support tribes in the Midwest with strategic energy planning and implementation

Community Power

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the equitable and replicable implementation of a Twin Cities Community-Based Energy Efficiency Navigator Pilot Program
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to sustain a Twin Cities energy justice cohort
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support and grow a Twin Cities energy justice network

Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina COPAL Education

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$300,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Congregations Caring for Creation

2 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$400,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

1 Grant

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Washington, DC

$485,000
2024
Midwest Climate & Energy
to host a series of convenings that help Minnesota entities take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Elective Pay to build publicly-owned clean energy projects and create high-quality jobs in their communities

Conservation Districts of Iowa

1 Grant

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Des Moines, IA

$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a farmer mentoring program to implement regenerative farming practices

Conservation Minnesota

6 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$500,000
2025
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a shared common value of “Care for Place” among Minnesotans of all races, ideologies, and geographies that transcends differences and inspires ever greater actions to be even better stewards of our state
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to amplify the ways Minnesotans of all backgrounds care for our shared place and inspire more people to take more action
$600,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to provide core support to educate health professionals, the public, and policymakers about the impacts of climate on health
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