Ceres, Inc.
To encourage private companies, especially in the financial sector, to adopt business practices that help reduce climate change, and to inform public policy related to clean-energy investments.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $400,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.
To support the Alliance to Curb Climate Change, a partnership with The Nature Conservancy, with the goal of promoting bipartisan leadership on climate and energy policy in ten states, and to support Climate Corps Boston.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $650,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
Innovation Network for Communities
To support phase one of Climate Ready Boston, with the goal of developing a long-term strategy for the Boston metro area to prepare for the effects of climate change.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $460,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
Partnership Project, Inc.
To coordinate the Climate Action Campaign to demonstrate to policy-makers and the media that Americans want their leaders to stand firmly on the side of public health and the environment.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $550,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Climate
The Nature Conservancy
To support the Alliance to Curb Climate Change, a partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund, with the goal of promoting bipartisan leadership on climate and energy policy in ten states.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $400,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
The Trust for Public Land
To pilot the Climate-Smart Cities program in Boston and, later, the metro area, incorporating Boston-specific data into its modeling and online mapping tools to help inform future climate-preparedness planning.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $500,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
Vote Solar
To bring solar energy to scale by removing barriers to market participation in New England, with a focus on Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont.
- Award Date: 6/23/2015
- Amount: $200,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
A Better City Initiative, Inc.
To develop a mobile-source emissions calculator to generate data that will lead to a greater understanding about average fuel efficiencies and their related greenhouse gas emissions and that will serve as a performance indicator for Go Boston 2030.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $20,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Climate
A Better City Initiative, Inc.
To create a public-realm plan to enhance public spaces that encourages greater use of public transit, biking, and walking throughout the City of Boston.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $250,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
Innovation Network for Communities
To launch and implement the Renewable Energy Leadership Prize, a $100,000 award to the nonprofit institution in Greater Boston that develops the most compelling strategy for large-scale renewable energy generation from either on-site or off-site sources.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $125,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Climate