Dream Corps
For General Operating Support
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/20/2018
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
Dream Corps is a social justice accelerator focused on supporting cutting-edge initiatives. Founded by Van Jones — a social entrepreneur, CNN political contributor, and host of The Van Jones Show on CNN — the organization supports economic, environmental, and criminal justice innovators in a shared platform for change. Dream Corps plans to propel its work forward and dramatically increase its impact through its four initiatives: Green For All, #cut50, #YesWeCode, and #LoveArmy. It will also allow the organization to further activate and engage its sizable and growing community of supporters toward further bridging areas of social, economic, and racial justice.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.thedreamcorps.org
Address
436 14th Street Suite 920, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for Frontlines First Program
Green For All, an initiative of Dream Corps, works to ensure that climate and clean-energy policies are well-designed and deliver economic, job creation, and public health benefits equitably. This grant will support Green For All’s Frontlines First program, which includes communications, advocacy, and collaboration efforts geared toward ensuring that the transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy benefits low-income communities and communities of color.
for communications and organizing efforts in support of implementing state clean power policies
Fossil fuel companies are waging concerted PR campaigns, attempting to raise concerns among low-income communities and people of color about potential increases in electricity and transportation costs. Green For All, an initiative of Dream Corps, works to ensure that climate and clean-energy policies are well-designed and deliver economic, job creation, and public health benefits equitably. This grant will support the organization’s engagement of communities of color in shaping strong Clean Power Plan state compliance plans. Green For All will specifically draw on efforts that have already been successful in some states.
for support of the Retrofit America's Cities program
In order to phase out dirty sources of electricity, like coal, markets for energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy must be increased. Green For All promotes new policies to finance energy efficiency retrofits of existing multifamily affordable housing. Using previous Hewlett funding, Green For All secured a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement a demonstration project in Oregon. With continued support, Green For All would launch the demonstration project, document and publicize the benefits, and replicate it in at least two other areas to build momentum for adoption of the policy nationally.
