Dream Corps
For The Network Building Program
-
Amount$500,000
-
Program
-
Date Awarded7/3/2019
-
Term12 Months
-
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 support of the Retrofit America's Cities program
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.
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.
for Green for All’s common ground strategy
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)
