Clean Jobs Midwest is an annual report based on survey data on clean energy employment in 12 Midwestern states. The Midwest’s clean energy industry employed 734,753 people in sectors including renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, advanced transportation, grid and storage, and clean fuels at the end of 2022. 2023 Clean Jobs Midwest Report Website 2023 …
The Midwest Climate & Energy program uses its philanthropic funding to support efforts that build power through partnership, aligning climate and equity goals to advance bold action on the climate crisis. Our program takes a systems change lens, focusing on shifting the conditions that perpetuate the climate crisis, which include structural racism. We direct grantmaking …
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Doupe Fellowship Allison Doupe was deeply connected to the McKnight Endowment Fund. She received a McKnight Scholar Award in 1993 and joined the scholar award committee in 2006. She took over as chair of the scholar committee in 2010 and joined the McKnight Endowment Fund board at that time. Additionally, Allison was an amazing mentor …
HitecVision is an energy developer that is investing on some of the emerging frontiers of the energy transition, including commercial scale carbon capture and storage, district heating with carbon capture, onshore and offshore wind power, and other energy transition initiatives. Investment $7.5 million; originated in September 2021 Rationale The strategy touches on a few themes …
Seizing abundant opportunities to build clean energy infrastructure across the United States, NEC is financing a cleaner, more resilient electricity grid. Investment Fund I: $7.5 million; originated in 2016 Fund II: $15 million; originated in 2019 Rationale Tangible assets that generate stable cash flows back NEC’s lending. The company’s success maps directly onto McKnight’s Midwest Climate …
The transition to a sustainable economy requires new products and businesses in agriculture, food, transportation, and health. SSF capitalizes on this transformation by investing in growth-stage businesses leading the evolution. Investment Climate Solutions Fund II: $7.5 million; originated in 2014 Sustainable Solutions Fund III: $10 million; originated in 2019 Sustainable Solutions Fund IV: $10 million; …
MCCD provides small loans to individual entrepreneurs and small businesses that have not grown large enough to access commercial banks or established Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). These early businesses are often minority-, immigrant-, or women-owned ventures. MCCD is a membership-based organization, including many cultural-based business developers. They work specifically within Indigenous, immigrant and communities …
NDC is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that empowers aspiring under-resourced entrepreneurs to build businesses in their neighborhoods, often the most economically strained in the Twin Cities. The organization describes itself as a character lender and points to its wraparound support for entrepreneurs—both pre-loan and post-loan—for achieving a high degree of repayment. NDC’s lending …
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners is a private equity fund invests in late-stage development and construction-stage solar and wind assets in North America and Developed Asia Pacific (Japan, Korea, and Taiwan). With renewables poised to meet most future capacity needs, Stonepeak hopes to take advantage of the moment and help prevent ongoing reliance on imported coal and …