Five Georgia-based family foundations today announce the awarding of inaugural Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions & Equity Grants in support of efforts that advance climate solutions and prioritize equity in Georgia.

Five two-year grants of $100,000 per year were awarded to: Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, Georgia Organics, Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund, Gwinnett Housing Corporation, and Athens Land Trust.

The Climate Solutions & Equity Grant program is directly inspired by Drawdown Georgia and is focused on advancing climate solutions that prioritize equity across the state, including: Composting, Conservation Agriculture, Energy Efficiency Improvements, Food Waste Reduction, Large-Scale Solar, and Rooftop Solar.

“雷·C·安德森基金会（Ray C. Anderson Foundation）与我们的合作伙伴以及R. Howard Dobbs，Jr。Foundation，Wilbur＆Hilda Glenn Family Foundation，Kendeda Fund和Sapelo Foundation的合作伙伴感到自豪，”雷·C·安德森基金会（Ray C. Anderson Foundation）执行董事，乔治亚州（Georgia）的创始人约翰·拉尼尔（John Lanier）说。“从历史上看，气候努力经常忽略了服务不足的地区或在没有目标社区投入的情况下提供慈善援助。这些赠款旨在吸引和授权佐治亚州的BIPOC社区对气候解决方案采取行动，同时带来最需要的投资，工作和其他福利。”

This inaugural effort is funding five, two-year grants of $100,000 per year for work to be conducted in 2023-2024, including:

真正生活的自然城市农业中心- their work in Atlanta’s Westside focuses on urban agriculture as a place-based strategy to address food injustice in underserved and BIPOC neighborhoods. Through this grant, Truly Living Well will partner with two organizations - Think Green, Inc. and Historic Westside Gardens - to upgrade and expand Truly Living Well’s Community Compost Lab, train local residents to engage at least 200 of their neighbors in composting, and train 40 new urban growers. Truly Living Well projects these efforts will increase their annual amount of composted material by 300%.

佐治亚有机物- working in close partnership with McIntosh SEED, the grant will support the creation of a Climate-Smart Farmer Cohort in Southeast Georgia, with a focus on conservation agriculture and rooftop solar. The organizations will develop climate-smart action plans and connect farmers with the resources to implement them.

Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund- this grant will support their statewide EMC Organizing Campaign, a project working to advance sustainability and drive a transition to clean energy production among Georgia’s 41 member-owned electric membership corporations (EMCs.) The effort will educate and activate EMC member-owners around programs that support energy efficiency and residential solar, sustainable practices in power distribution, and the need to dramatically increase the share of renewable energy in generation portfolios.

Gwinnett Housing Corporation- 格温内特住房公司（Gwinnett Housing Corporation）将与佐治亚州西班牙裔建筑协会和东南能源效率联盟一起制定一项全面的联邦投资和劳动力发展计划，以使98号州议会区的弱势社区受益 - 格温内特县最多样化，最不足的部分。他们最终将创建一个路线图，以将联邦资金投资于能源不符合的社区，以扩大气象化的机会，并建立能源效率和清洁能源少数民族的工作管道。此外，合作伙伴将评估少数族裔企业企业参与能源效率服务的障碍，并与当地承包商合作为BIPOC承包商提供培训和资源。188bet上不了

雅典土地信托- this grant will support Athens Land Trust’s work in the West Broad neighborhood as well as communities in North Athens. This includes programs to deliver home repair, weatherization, and energy efficiency improvements; expand workforce development capacity through their Young Urban Builders program; assist low-income homeowners in applying to the state Weatherization Assistance Program for deep energy retrofits; and build community leadership capacity for implementation of climate solutions by supporting the establishment of Neighborhood Advisory Boards.

该计划的资助合作伙伴是R. Howard Dobbs，Jr。基金会及其多布斯基金会，Wilbur＆Hilda Glenn Family Foundation,The Kendeda Fund,雷·C·安德森基金会Nextgen委员会和Sapelo基金会。

For more information about the Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions & Equity Grant, visitwww.drawdownga.org/grants。

关于乔治亚州的提取
佐治亚州DAWDOWN是一项基于全州的研究计划，该计划于2020年发起，该计划由Ray C. Anderson基金会资助的多元大学合作诞生。从ProjectDrawdown®中汲取灵感，这是全球对气候变化采取行动的领先资源，佐治亚州的提取佐治亚州通过确定在接下来的十年中降低我们州的温室气体排放的20种最高影响解决方案来局部进行工作。

该框架重点介绍了五个部门的气候解决方案：运输，建筑物和材料，食品和农业，电力和陆上水槽。它考虑了这些解决方案如何减少排放并提高“超越碳”优先事项，包括公平，经济发展，公共卫生以及培养更大的环境。

乔治亚州逐渐减少has grown into a “leader-full” movement, bringing together many organizations, universities, companies,领导者， 和funders他们正在努力推进佐治亚州的气候解决方案，包括减少佐治亚州业务紧凑型,下降会众， 和Drawdown Higher Education。了解更多信息dragdownga.org

关于乔治亚州气候解决方案和股权赠款
The inaugural Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions and Equity Grant was launched in 2022 by five Georgia-based family foundations to support efforts that advance climate solutions and prioritize equity throughout Georgia.

该计划的资助合作伙伴是R. Howard Dobbs，Jr。基金会及其多布斯基金会，Wilbur＆Hilda Glenn Family Foundation,The Kendeda Fund,雷·C·安德森基金会Nextgen委员会和Sapelo基金会。

The funding partners awarded a total of $1 million over two years to five grant recipients for work to be conducted across Georgia in 2023-2024.The grants are directly inspired by Drawdown Georgia and will focus on the following climate solutions: Composting, Conservation Agriculture, Energy Efficiency Improvements, Food Waste Reduction, Large-Scale Solar, and Rooftop Solar.