New Venture Fund
For The Fossil Fuel Reduction Project
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Amount$4,000,000
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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 SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Tar Sands Group, formed as a project of New Venture Fund, focuses on slowing and ultimately stopping the growth of tar sands development in Alberta, Canada. The organization’s strategy is to block refinery and pipeline expansions needed for tar sands development through public approval processes, reduce demand for tar sands oil in the U.S. through adoption of state and national standards preventing the sale of high carbon fuels, and create requirements that tar sands developers pay the full cost of water, air, and habitat impacts. This renewal grant would allow the Tar Sands Group to continue its multi-year campaign to constrain the growth of infrastructure needed for additional tar sands development.
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)
