BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
For The Jobs 21! Project
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
In 2006, the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers formed BlueGreen Alliance to work on creating an economy in which job growth and environmental progress go hand-in-hand. Four major environmental organizations and ten prominent labor unions now partner within BlueGreen Alliance. This grant targets the coalition’s Jobs 21! program, a national effort to generate job growth as the nation transitions to sustainable, clean economies and energy independence. Jobs 21! is focused on demonstrating how investing in 21st century infrastructure will grow jobs and confront climate change.
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)
