Strategic Climate Change Grantmaking
Increased Funding for Climate Change, Clean Energy, and Equity Issues in Minnesota
Carolyn Foundation believes that now is a unique and critical opportunity to make significant progress on climate, clean energy, and equity issues in Minnesota. In 2023, and in coordination with Energy Foundation and other funders, Carolyn Foundation worked quickly to identify and support organizations whose participation in the 100% Campaign is critical to its success:
- Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
- Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota
- Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy
- Community Power
- Conservation Minnesota
- Fresh Energy
- Great Plains Institute
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- ISAIAH
- Land Stewardship Project
- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
- Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light
- Native Sun Community Power Development
We are so proud of the outstanding work of all of these groups. With the passage of the 100% Clean Energy Bill, MN is now a climate change leader in the US. Carolyn Foundation will make additional climate change grants through 2026 to support the successful implementation of state and federal climate change policy.
Core Climate Change Partners
Through its history of strategic climate change grantmaking, Carolyn Foundation identified a cohort of organizations leading the way on climate change in Minnesota. This cohort developed into our Core Climate Change Partners, which are listed here.