New Venture Fund
For Support Of The Clean Transportation Initiative
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Amount$430,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The Clean Transportation Initiative of the New Venture Fund aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollutants from the transportation sector in the U.S. The next several years will provide a critical window of opportunity as decisions made by government and industry will determine the path the of the U.S. transportation sector for the next twenty years. The main results expected from this grant would be strong federal and state policies that increase efficiency and reduce emissions from freight transportation and tighter emissions standards at the federal level for new and existing vehicles.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
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Grants to this Grantee
for the Tech Talent Project
The Tech Talent Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit project fiscally sponsored by New Venture Fund that addresses the pressing need for tech talent in government to effectively implement nonlegislative policy, provide services, and address emerging technologies like AI. Recent shifts in the digital labor market present an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this work in the federal government. (Substrategy: Executive Branch)
for Vision First’s Abortion on Our Own Terms project
Abortion On Our Own Terms, a project of Vision First (a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund) is a national campaign that aims to make safe, effective self-managed abortion available to all people without shame, stigma, or legal risk. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
