Dear Colleagues,
The Climate Breakthrough Project, formerly known as the Climate Strategies Accelerator, is an initiative of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in partnership with the Oak Foundation and the Good Energies Foundation. Climate Breakthrough is now looking for new people and ideas to support on a rolling basis, with a goal of investing in 1 to 3 changemakers a year. In addition to considering individuals, the Project is also open to funding efforts driven by small teams of 2 to 4 people.
The Climate Breakthrough Project finds extraordinary strategists and gives them the time, space, and resources to create and implement the boldest strategies they can conceive to mitigate climate change. The Project aims to fund several new projects each year that collectively will lead to multi-gigaton annual emissions reductions within 10 years. The strategies that awardees pursue will, if successful, lead to tangible changes that reduce (or capture) greenhouse gas emissions on a globally meaningful scale—changes that could reduce global annual emissions by hundreds of megatons of CO2e within five to ten years. For most awardees, this will mean pursuing strategies that affect entire industries or countries and materially change the lives of millions of people. Innovative strategies in social, behavioral, economic, and policy change are all encouraged and awardees can operate anywhere in world–so long as their work can make a globally significant impact on emissions over the next five to ten years. Funding is not restricted to any specific issue, approach, or region.
The Project provides large, multi-year, unrestricted awards to help empower promising leaders with powerful, high-risk, high-reward innovations in the climate space. Awardees will receive $2 million total over three years to develop and pursue scalable strategies of their own design. In addition to funding, the Project provides additional access to expert resources and assistance to help awardees scale their work. The Project funds extraordinary individuals and small teams, not institutions or organizations.
Awardees must be nominated by a scout in the Climate Breakthrough Project network. Scouts identify hundreds of potential candidates each year through their networks across the globe. Those interested in this funding opportunity should contact Chris Allen at chris@chrisallan.info to discuss project ideas.
For additional information, please see review the Climate Breakthrough Project website: https://www.climatebreakthroughproject.org/
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)