Keeling Curve

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As a new coalition of community-based organizations and decarbonization partners, philanthropies, and local governments, we believe that when communities have co-governance of priorities, transformative solutions emerge. Our model flips that of the longstanding, traditional, top-down coalition. We lead with community priorities, and then solicit the expertise of our national decarb partners. Our bottom-up approach supports wide-ranging goals:

Center frontline community priorities in climate and building decarbonization policies.

Create resilient, healthy, and safe buildings and communities.

Ensure that frontline communities reap economic benefits of building upgrades.

Model and scale just and inclusive policymaking.

Community Climate Shift is a national movement toward community-centered climate solutions. Community Climate Shift provides direct resources and shifts power in the policy and program design process to community-rooted and frontline community-accountable organizations. These are typically organizations led by Black and Latinx community members of our participating cities and states. Initial efforts are targeting communities across several geographic areas that can maximize the ability of the effort to influence broad regions of climate action. The work funded by this proposal will support one community based organization in either New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Washington State, or California.

Website:

https://www.imt.org/

Mission Statement:

The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) bridges the intersection of business, government, and community priorities to improve U.S buildings, ensuring that millions of people across the United States have access to safe, healthy, and affordable spaces where they live, work, and play.