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☀️ Once you understand a few solar basics, you can begin your nonprofit's solar journey. You'll need to identify key decision makers, ideally form a green team, and talk to people at all levels of your organization to get them on board with going solar. Read the next installment in our solar guide for nonprofits to learn more! 👇 #solarenergy #nonprofits #renewableenergy

This #FundingFriday we are highlighting a local funding opportunity, Centrica's Energy for Tomorrow, helping Somerset organisations reach net zero. Energy for Tomorrow offers grant funding, tools and support to innovative energy projects that can drive a greener, fairer future for the South West. Whether you need £20,000 to install an EV charging point or £100,000 to fund a transformative energy tool, they want to hear from you. The intiative is seeking projects and ideas that can accelerate the energy transition, and want to support those who have a clear social mission, a viable and feasible idea, and can demonstrate one or more of the following: 🍃 You’re a charity, CIC, registered community group, not-for-profit or for-profit company in the South West of England that can demonstrate a positive environmental and social impact 🍃 You’re developing innovative energy solution that can reduce carbon emissions by transforming how communities manage their energy usage 🍃 You have an idea for an energy solution/project that is financially viable and will have a positive impact on your community and beyond 🍃 You’re working with individuals in the community to help them better understand their energy usage and how it impacts the environment – encouraging them to make changes for a more sustainable future 🍃 You’re encouraging collaboration within communities to deliver energy projects that have a far-reaching, lasting impact The deadline for this opportunity is 11:59pm on Friday 18 October. For more information or to express your interest, please visit their website: https://lnkd.in/esQz-9Q #Funding #Fundraising #Community #GreenEnergy #NetZero

Charities and community energy groups across England, Scotland and Wales can again apply for a grant from the Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The Energy Redress Scheme has today opened its tenth funding round. There is £40 million available through four funding streams. #energynews #energyprice

Applications are open for this year's Solar PV Grant! Purple House Cancer Support has already generated 2.477 MWh of energy from the 3kW Solar PV Grant we awarded them last year, in celebration of our 3rd anniversary. This isn't just a number—it's real savings, real impact and real change for a charity that does so much for our community. Now, as we celebrate 4 years in business, we’re turning up the volume! 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 4𝐤𝐖 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐕 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫! We will cover the expense of: 🌱 planning 🌱 design 🌱 installation This is more than a giveaway—it’s about driving sustainability and empowering non profit organisations that need it most. We want to give back in a meaningful way. 💻 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞. We need your help to share this opportunity far and wide. Please share this opportunity and help us find a worthy cause to support. Let’s keep building a future where sustainability supports those who support us. 💚 #SolarGrant #SustainabilityInAction #GreenEnergy #SupportingCommunities #LeadingTheChange

Solarize the Triad is gaining some serious momentum, y'all ☀️ Since kicking off in July, this group purchasing campaign has made a big effort make solar more accessible and affordable for local residents, non-profits, and businesses. Here are some of the results ⬇️ 👉 $1.25 MILLION in new clean energy investment 👉 Nearly 300 Triad families, small businesses, and non-profits involved 👉 Over 50 new solar and back-up battery projects under contract The enrollment deadline for individuals, businesses, and nonprofits is closing soon, but the impact will last decades. This initiative will mitigate more than 1 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions annually, keep millions of dollars in energy savings in our local economy, and lead to even more new green jobs in our region. This program is doing amazing things here in our community, but there's not much time left to be part of this historic campaign. Residents must schedule a free evaluation by December 15th to be eligible for group solar campaign, so be sure to sign up now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ew5jf2Ti #winstonsalem #solarenergy #piedmonttriad

Join us in donating #solar and #storage installations to those in need!   After donating 1️⃣ 5️⃣ installations across Europe and South Africa 💪 as part of Menlo Electric's program Energy to Power Your Future, we are moving to a much broader initiative: Solar2Share Collective 🤝   Through Solar2Share, any manufacturer, distributor or installer will be able to donate equipment or workmanship to help deliver solar power to those in need.   Solar2Share carries out the project management start-to-finish, raising donations, arranging logistics and offering technical support, as needed. And it takes care of the promotion activities, too!   Solar2Share already has 20 projects in its pipeline, but is open to adding more. So, if there is an institution, region or country you feel particularly strongly about supporting - feel free to propose it.   Are you interested in joining Solar2Share? Feel free to reach out to Nataliia Cherepovska, who coordinates our participation in the program.   Last but not least: progressing to Solar2Share means that we are retiring our own Energy to Power Your Future CSR program. It's been a phenomenal, albeit also challenging experience. It took us months to deliver the first 2 installations. We had to coordinate suppliers, installers, arrange legal framework, carry out logistics - frequently it was a first project of this kind for everyone involved.   I wanted to thank to our persistent and dedicated team, coordinated by Krystyna Kacperska, Corina Serban and Nataliia Cherepovska. But in fact, every department was involved: procurement, legal, finance, customer service, logistics, sales, technical support. It was a great example of living our values: #responsibility #care #desire #synergy #versatility   A huge thank you also to all our partners, for the donations and commitment 🙏   Now, let's donate more and more installations together through Solar2Share!   #solar #pv #csr #corporateresponsibility

"Less philanthropy, more business" It's a mistake I see many energy proponents make - effective community benefit strategies are not about how much $s an organization decides to voluntarily donate to charity. It's a much more strategic exercise and should be grounded in what is of #socialvalue (i.e. #socialimpact that is relatively important in context). https://lnkd.in/g_rgZka6 #communitybenefits #renewableenergy #socialimpact

Win a 4kW Solar PV System! 🌞 Applications are open for our 4kW Solar PV grant, available to non-profits in Ireland. After the huge success of last year’s giveaway awarded to Purple House Cancer Support, we’re back and ready to make an even bigger impact! The Grant Includes: 🌱 Design 🌱 4kW Solar Panel System 🌱 Installation   This initiative is part of our commitment to supporting the #community and achieving our goal of carbon neutrality. We know how challenging #energybills can be, especially in today’s cost of living crisis, and we want to help local charities to reduce their costs while making a positive environmental impact. Interested? Apply via our website, the link is in the comments below 👇 Help us spread the word! If you know a #school, #hospice, #sports team or other #nonprofit or #charity that could benefit, tag them in the comments and encourage them to apply.    We would like to encourage the following companies to share this opportunity with their networks to help us find a worthy candidate for this 4kW Solar PV System. Office of Public Works  Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Department of Education — Ireland  Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media  Peter McVerry Trust Clúid Housing  Tuath Housing Association  Focus Ireland  Threshold  Irish Green Building Council  CIBSE  WiBSE: Women in Building Services Engineering (a CIBSE Network)  World Green Building Council  UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)  GBCI Europe  Business Post  Irish Construction Industry Magazine, The Construction News Channel  The Irish News Let’s work together to make a difference! #SolarGrant #CarbonNeutral #Sustainability #CommunitySupport #PassiveDynamics #GreenEnergy #SolarPV #NonProfitSupport  

Vivint Solar CEO Emerges as Utah’s Leading Fundraiser in National Analysis In a recent analysis of corporate fundraising, Vivint Solar’s CEO has emerged as the most successful fundraiser in Utah. Data analysts at Switch On Business utilized corporate fundraising data from Crunchbase to identify CEOs who have secured the most funding during their tenure at companies headquartered in each U.S. state. CEO Fundraising Success Across the U.S.: Hock Tan, the president and CEO of Broadcom Limited, leads the nation with an astonishing $100 billion raised. This total is more than three times that of Albert Bourla, who has secured $31 billion for Pfizer in New York. Tan’s fundraising prowess has significantly […] Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dKKWGGwV #solarenergy #alternativeenergy #solarpv #pvsolar #photovoltaic #cleanenergy #cleantech #climatechange #middleeast #africa #india #asiapacific #asia #america #fundraiser #northamerica #renewableenergy #solarenergy #vivintsolar

EKOenergy joined the Leapfrog Alliance, a recently launched non-profit coalition calling for more robust incentives to increase corporate investment in clean energy access in unelectrified and underserved communities globally. We would like to see international standards, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol), adopt clear incentives for companies to support projects that improve access to clean energy for all. For example, the often-forgotten Chapter 11 of the Scope 2 Guidance under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard encourages companies to do more and mentions the possibility of contributing funds for new project development. We hope that after its review, it will mention more explicitly that new projects can be particularly impactful when they benefit unelectrified and underserved communities. Read more about EKOenergy joining the Leapfrog Alliance via the link in the comments.