Dream Corps

Green for All works with businesses, governments, utilities, labor unions, and communities to increase energy efficiency retrofits of single- and multi-family homes, especially in underserved communities of color. With this grant the organization would seek to rapidly increase demand for energy efficiency upgrades for single-family homes in at least five additional cities; implement an energy efficiency financing model for the multi-family affordable housing market; and encourage training for a network of contractors that will draw on local communities for their employees.

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.

This grant supports Green for All’s common ground strategy, a program of Dream Corps that aims to advance smart, equitable climate policies and unite the country around a shared vision for a clean energy economy. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)