Dream Corps
For The Network Building Program
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/3/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Dream Corps is a nonprofit social justice accelerator founded in 2015 by CNN’s Van Jones. The platform is based on a simple but powerful idea: that society can reshape "what’s possible" in the fields of social justice by focusing on solutions, not silos. Since its founding, Dream Corps has impacted millions of lives by working with various stakeholders to (a) transform the criminal justice system; (b) increase opportunity in the tech sector; (c) build an inclusive green economy; and (d) shrink the culture of intolerance, fear, and division. This grant will support the Network Building Program, which will leverage Dream Corps’ political and corporate connections to bring key influencers and policymakers to the table with leaders from the environmental, criminal, and tech justice communities. Through the breadth of the organization’s relationships, it is well positioned as a connector between the grassroots and the grasstops. Through acting as a convener and developing its Network Building Program, Dream Cops will help ensure that this country’s reform efforts have a bottom-up, top-down, and bipartisan approach.
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.
