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About Us

Invest in Our Future advances the self-determined visions of historically underserved communities. We build enduring ecosystems of support through a relational approach to funding and partnerships. And we serve as a strategic hub for NGOs and grant makers, driving the clean energy transition to be more efficient, more equitable, and more beneficial to communities across the country.

Our Challenge

America needs a new clean energy economy. Invest in Our Future is making it happen faster and delivering results for every community.

Accelerating America’s clean energy economy is one of the most powerful ways to drive progress at scale. The opportunity is immense: clean energy can lower costs, create good jobs, and revitalize communities nationwide. But realizing that promise will require more than policy: it takes people.

Threatened by pushback and gaps in local capacity, progress is under threat. To secure long-term gains, we must activate and equip more local leaders, advocates, and communities to drive implementation and demand continued investment. Philanthropy has an urgent role to play: catalyzing thousands of projects and helping build a new, durable clean economy coalition rooted in local leadership. We must act quickly given the scale of the crisis and the current environment.

Invest in Our Future (IOF) was built for this moment: to defend progress, scale solutions, build quickly, and ensure that the benefits of the new clean energy economy reach every community.

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Our Vision

IOF envisions a world in which U.S. investments in a new clean energy economy meet the self-determined needs of communities around the country while enhancing the economic prosperity of historically underserved communities and building resilience in a changing climate.

In pursuit of that world, we are…

Enabling high-potential, locally-led initiatives

We put our support behind organizations that understand their community’s needs and design solutions to match them.

Ensuring all communities can access funding

We fund experienced partners who can connect new projects with the financing they need, by navigating grant opportunities, building capacity for State and local governments, Tribes, and community-service organizations, and leveraging relationships with the private sector.

Bringing the philanthropic community together to advance a clean energy economy

We coordinate across philanthropic organizations, provide guidance to partners, and encourage collaborative support for efforts essential to advancing a clean energy economy.

Our Partners