We are mobilizing funds to ensure equity in the clean energy economy in the U.S.
As of November 2024, US $100m in grants awarded toward equitable access to an energy transition across America
Invest in Our Future launched in early 2023 to provide philanthropy and the clean energy field with a pooled fund and strategy hub singularly focused on two overarching goals that remain relevant today despite federal changes:
- Support efforts to accelerate the deployment of cost-competitive clean energy technologies at the pace and scale needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
- Ensure that all Americans, including those in rural, underserved, and energy-poor communities, can experience the tangible economic and community benefits that flow from clean energy deployment.
IOF’s grantmaking focuses on place-based strategies to build enduring ecosystems of support that will facilitate the long-term work of effective, equitable implementation nationwide while prioritizing historically underserved communities. It further leverages connections to a broad funder network and coordinates across philanthropy to identify gaps and direct funding to on-the-ground organizations that can fill those gaps.
Grantees represent a wide range of backgrounds, including climate and environment, health, justice, education, agriculture, labor, faith, and more. These experienced partners bring to their work a clear understanding of their communities’ needs, a strong grasp on the process for unlocking funding, and a deep focus on high-potential, locally-led initiatives.
Programs have included raising awareness of new programs and incentives, building capacity at the state and local level, accelerating new projects through complex approval processes, expanding America’s skilled clean energy workforce, and amplifying success stories.
RFCC serves as IOF’s fiscal sponsor and works with its donors to aggregate funding as part of a pooled fund. It helped set up the processes, policies, a team of 15 and is providing critical infrastructure support for IOF to serve as a strategic hub for NGOs and grant makers working in the emerging space of climate and clean energy implementation.
