Meet Our North Carolina Partners

APRI

APRI

Blueprint

Blueprint

Climate and Jobs Roundtable (NCLCV)

Climate and Jobs Roundtable (NCLCV)

NC Black Alliance

NC Black Alliance

NCAAT

NCAAT

Siembra

Siembra

Solnation

Solnation

We are Down Home

We are Down Home

Appalachian Voices

Appalachian Voices

RedTailed Hawk Collective

RedTailed Hawk Collective

In 2021, North Carolina grantees served in leadership roles in various workgroups and stakeholder gatherings to push for equitable implementation of North Carolina’s new clean energy law (HB 951) and various other Public Utility Commission proceedings. Grantees also secured a veto on a fracked gas preemption bill (HB220) through a targeted media and grassroots advocacy campaign led by Advance Carolina. Grantee partner Blueprint North Carolina received funding from the Equity Fund to commission a landscape analysis of the state to form a collaborative power-building campaign housed at their Environmental Justice Workgroup.

Read the 2021 Impact Report

Above photo, NCAAT youth members pose for a photo at the 2019 Youth Leadership Institute, a program for high-school-aged young people who identify as Asian American to explore their leadership and advocacy skills.

 

Banner photo courtesy of Down Home North Carolina.

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