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Evergreen Climate Innovations

4 Grants

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Chicago, IL

$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to communicate the importance of clean energy and clean energy jobs in the Midwest
$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the annual Clean Jobs Midwest report
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the preparation, release, and promotion of the Clean Jobs Midwest report
$75,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the development and amplification of the Midwest clean energy jobs report

Evergreen Collaborative

2 Grants

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Seattle, WA

$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

EVHybridNoire Inc.

2 Grants

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Smyrna, GA

$350,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$350,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support, and to connect state and federal decisionmakers and lift up stories from the Midwest

Faith in Place

1 Grant

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Chicago, IL

$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

FFWD

1 Grant

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San Francisco, CA

$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy

Food & Water Watch

2 Grants

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Washington, DC

$100,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a grassroots organizing campaign to increase public support for policies that would reduce agricultural climate emissions and generate opposition to false solutions in Iowa
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for base-building, organizing, and bolstering narrative-shifting strategies to address methane from agriculture and factory farm biogas, and to increase support for a more just, sustainable, and climate-smart agriculture policy in Iowa and nationally

Food and Environment Reporting Network

1 Grant

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New York, NY

$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support FERN’s reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system

Forth Mobility Fund

3 Grants

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Portland, OR

$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, deepen relationships between equity focused and traditional organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build capacity, create stronger relationships between equity focused and mainstream organizations, and advance equitable electric mobility
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build the capacity of equity organizations and environmental advocates to work together towards equitable transportation electrification

Fresh Energy

3 Grants

$500,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition’s efforts to develop and implement equitable strategies to achieve zero emissions from the Midwestern building sector by 2050
$4,000,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic near-term reductions in carbon pollution through equity-centered policy work, partnerships, and innovation
$1,987,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to move Minnesota and the Midwest toward dramatic reductions in carbon pollution in the near term

Friends of the Mississippi River

1 Grant

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St. Paul, MN

$250,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Global Philanthropy Partnership

3 Grants

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Chicago, IL

$450,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support local- and community-driven clean transportation solutions in the Midwest
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advance clean, reliable, and safe transportation through local sustainability and equitable mobility solutions
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support mobility advocacy groups working towards the development of sustainable mobility and equitable access in the Midwestern region

Grassroots Power Project

1 Grant

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Berkeley, CA

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

Great Northern Winter Festival

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to produce a festival focused on educating and informing the public about the impacts of climate change
$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to educate and inform the public about the impacts of climate change during the Great Northern Winter Festival
$75,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch a festival of ideas focused on educating and informing the public about the impacts of climate change

Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development

6 Grants

$1,200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage and support interested and affected parties toward equitably implementing the 100% clean energy legislation and reducing emissions from the building, energy, and transportation sectors
$1,460,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$230,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate local climate action, at scale, by providing technical assistance, capacity, and tools to local governments
$1,000,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support modeling the impacts of a Midwest Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
$320,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to assist Minnesota communities in achieving their own climate action and energy goals

GridLab

1 Grant

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Berkeley, CA

$75,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to model zero-carbon pathways for Wisconsin

Grist Magazine

1 Grant

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Seattle, WA

$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to deploy a partnership model in the Midwest that supports local news in telling the story of climate, justice, and solutions

Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate

1 Grant

Minneapolis, MN

$150,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to educate health professionals, the public, and policymakers about the impacts of climate on health

Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research

1 Grant

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St. Paul, MN

$75,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to collect and further understand the attitudes, feelings, beliefs and reactions on climate change within the Latinx community in the state of Minnesota

Hmong American Farmers Association

1 Grant

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West Saint Paul, MN

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

Hourcar

3 Grants

$500,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$500,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund

1 Grant

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Springfield, IL

$100,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Illinois Climate Action Table

Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc

3 Grants

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Hartford, CT

$500,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$395,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest expansion of clean energy financing and explore the creation of a green bank in Minnesota

Initiative Foundation

2 Grants

$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to explore strategies in Central Minnesota to explore partnerships in the region to combat climate change, and bring new resources to carbon mitigation
$150,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support economic diversification and development in central Minnesota

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

4 Grants

$200,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to expand and improve farm conservation programs in Midwest states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon, while advocating for greater limits on emissions from large-scale factory farm systems in the Midwest and nationally
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to develop a climate policy framework centered on farms and rural communities
$75,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create a roadmap for rural community climate action in Minnesota including on-farm solutions
$150,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue support of the Rural Climate Dialogues

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate energy justice in the Twin Cities and Midwest with movement-building education and organizing, and finding adaptive approaches to make energy markets more accessible
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate equitable clean energy in Minnesota cities via movement-building, education, and breaking energy barriers
$200,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to accelerate equitable climate progress via expert intervention and community organizing in Minneapolis and Saint Paul

Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development

1 Grant

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New York, NY

$100,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP) project

Interstate Renewable Energy Council

2 Grants

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Albany, NY

$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support continued leadership on interconnection and grid modernization reforms to help Minnesota achieve its clean energy and climate goals
$225,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s (IREC) continued leadership on engagement in interconnection and grid modernization reforms in Minnesota

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

1 Grant

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Des Moines, IA

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

Iowa Environmental Council

3 Grants

$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$200,000
2018
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Juxtaposition

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to organize a coalition of community members and organizations to address climate change through an environmental justice lens in Minneapolis, and to launch a community-informed policy framework

Land Stewardship Project

1 Grant

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Minneapolis, MN

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

Majority Action

4 Grants

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Silver Spring, MD

$300,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive the fundamental transformation of corporate behavior through investor-led accountability campaigns at climate-critical companies necessary to decarbonize the U.S. energy system
$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive the fundamental transformation of corporate behavior through investor-led accountability campaigns at climate-critical companies necessary to decarbonize the U.S. energy system
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to drive wholesale transformation of fossil fuel-intensive and fossil adjacent companies through investor-led accountability campaigns that involve high-level investor organizing and partnerships with racial justice and climate activist organizations
$150,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support investor-led accountability efforts in the Midwest through the Climate Majority Project

Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

2 Grants

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Saint Paul, MN

$240,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to deepen efforts to develop market transformation and commercialization strategies for the cash cover crop “winter camelina” and drive successful adoption of nutrient management, cover cropping, and longer crop rotations in the Red River Valley
$75,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support two soil health initiatives in Minnesota

Minnesota – State of

2 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the start of the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program's Climate Smart Farms Project
$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to create a Minnesota action plan for scaling up the adoption of soil health management practices that mitigate the impacts of climate change and increase landscape resiliency

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

3 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for strategy leadership to transform the energy sector, decarbonize building, maximize implementation of new laws, and achieve equitable outcomes at the Public Utilities Commission
$500,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to advocate for equitable climate action by Minnesota’s state and local governments
$200,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build MCEA’s capacity to advocate for equitable climate policy that will help Minnesota achieve its greenhouse gas reduction goals for the electricity, transportation, and agriculture sectors

Minnesota Farmers Union

2 Grants

$300,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to empower family farmers to lead on climate action, developing and building support for farmer-informed solutions that position agriculture to play a greater role in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change
$150,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support clean energy and energy efficiency adoption by farmers throughout the state of Minnesota

Minnesota Public Radio

2 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage Minnesota Public Radio’s audience on the topic of climate change
$300,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to engage the MPR audience on climate change

MN350

4 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$400,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$160,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to build power for climate justice in Minnesota
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$310,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support and for the 2019 climate justice gala

Momentum Community

1 Grant

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Boston, MA

$45,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Momentum Training in Minneapolis

Move Minnesota

4 Grants

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St. Paul, MN

$1,025,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to dramatically curb carbon pollution in Minnesota by facilitating a shift from widespread driving to biking, walking, and transit use
$300,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$400,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to launch a long-term campaign to dramatically curb carbon pollution in Minnesota by facilitating a shift from widespread driving to biking, walking, and transit use

MZC Foundation

2 Grants

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Atlanta, GA

$25,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to continue NextGen Highways work with the Minnesota Department Of Transportation to advance electric transmission and electric vehicle charging
$25,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to evaluate the siting of high-voltage direct current transmission within existing highway right of way

National Young Farmers Coalition

1 Grant

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Hudson, NY

$150,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for climate organizing work at the national level for food and farm policies, and in key Midwest states

Native Americans in Philanthropy

1 Grant

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Washington, DC

$50,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support Midwest Tribal Energy Equity Summit and technical assistance support to Midwest Tribal Nations

Neighborhood Funders Group

1 Grant

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San Francisco, CA

$50,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group to advance the Campaign to Support Black Farmers

New Buildings Institute Inc

2 Grants

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Portland, OR

$40,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
for support of equity components of the Getting to Zero Forum and the Next Gen Student Program
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for development of the Advanced Water Heating Initiative in the Midwest region

New Venture Fund

5 Grants

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Washington, DC

$4,000,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantmaking and technical assistance for BIPOC organizing on climate and clean energy in the Midwest
$200,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to ensure that communities have access to the resources they need to be effective self-advocates in the redistricting process
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support a coalition of community groups in Chicago to guide the implementation of the city’s zero emission policies for medium- and heavy-duty trucks
$200,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to identify and support efforts to help center communities and people in the redistricting process in Midwestern states, and create a national infrastructure to support fair maps in 2021
$500,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support grantmaking and assistance for organizing on climate and energy equity in the Midwest

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association

1 Grant

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Columbus, OH

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

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

1 Grant

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Youngstown, OH

$100,000
2022
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the continued development and dissemination of the Organizing the Midwest project

Our Streets Minneapolis

3 Grants

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Minneapolis, MN

$600,000
2023
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support
$100,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the "Rethinking I-94 for Climate, Equity, and Access" project
$350,000
2021
Midwest Climate & Energy
for general operating support

Partnership Project

4 Grants

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Washington, DC

$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
$500,000
2020
Midwest Climate & Energy
to help climate advocates improve their public engagement work
$150,000
2019
Midwest Climate & Energy
to support the Climate Advocacy Lab
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