New Venture Fund
For The Zero Now Fund
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Amount$750,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/8/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Zero Now Fund aims to seed and fund campaigns in cities and states throughout the U.S. to rapidly accelerate transport electrification. This year’s grant supports two campaigns: (a) Secure commitments from cities to fully electrify urban freight by 2030 and (b) advance electric vehicle policies in some states. This grant is a critical element of our strategy to accelerate the share of electric vehicles in the U.S. in order to decarbonize transportation. (Substrategy: Transport Electrification)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newventurefund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300 – A, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
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)
