BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
For The Montana Engagement Project
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Amount$125,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/3/2014
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The BlueGreen Alliance will develop and operate a Montana labor engagement program focused on Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. By creating a deeper understanding, within key unions, of the design and potential benefits of the rules, BGA hopes to create an environment within Montana in which decision makers at all levels can support and comply with the clean energy rules.
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)
