BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
For General Operating Support
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/27/2010
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Established in 2006, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BFAG) works toward a sustainable economy in which environmental progress and job creation go hand in hand. One of its goals is to make the case for additional public and private investment in green jobs, which will also increase the demand for clean energy and green technologies. There is a growing need for education at the base of the labor and environmental movements to address the climate crisis; a central aim of BGAF is to broaden the environmental movement by building a blue-collar constituency for global warming solutions. The overall goals include: engaging unions and environmental organizations to lead development of a national blueprint to address the challenges and seize the economic opportunities of global warming; promote "green" manufacturing processes that will make jobs more secure and less toxic; accelerate the growth of new green building; create more investments in research, development, demonstration and deployment of green technologies; highlight the connections between green investments, environmental solutions, job creation and trade reform. BGAF will focus on the following outcomes: increasing support among BGAF labor and environmental partners for green economic investment and national global warming strategy; broadening the base of support within organized labor for investment in clean energy and green technologies; increasing the workers understanding of the baseline definition of green jobs.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bgafoundation.org
Address
2701 University Avenue, SE, #209, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation works to solve today’s climate problems in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. This grant will support a variety of the foundation’s activities, including research and communications, to unite labor unions and environmental organizations around the implementation of job-creating climate and environmental solutions. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
for general operating support
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation works to solve today’s climate problems in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. The foundation achieves its mission through research, education, communications, coalition building, and policy development, working within a national partnership that unites labor unions and environmental organizations around job-creating climate and environmental solutions. It prioritizes the successful implementation of federal climate investment, with a focus on supporting the creation of good jobs and supporting workers and communities facing historic racism and underinvestment. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
for organizational assessment
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) educates the public about the job-creating potential of environmental solutions. BGAF's staff has grown by 30% over the past year and a half. This organizational effectiveness grant will support a consultant to conduct an internal assessment and provide recommendations on how to best structure internal systems and teams. (Substrategy: Philanthropic Capacity)
