The Footprint Project, DER Task Force and Spring Lane Capital have launched The Footprint Resilience Fund to provide resilient power supplies in under-resourced communities most vulnerable to climate change.
The fund will create more mobile & distributed power systems across the nation as Ida-like power disasters become more common.
Institutional
Clean energy companies, utilities, consultants, investors, and donor organizations: Reach out to learn how you can partner with the Footprint Project to build their scale and capacity — and highlight your own efforts within the community:
Individuals
Join the hundreds of individual donors who have already donated:
With climate-driven disasters increasingly disrupting power supplies in the United States, it’s time for the industry to come together around the ‘Footprint Resilience Fund’—
A new donor fund to help arm Footprint Project with the resources they need to address the increasing number of power related disasters across the U.S. due to climate change.
The funding will help protect the power supply in underserved communities that are most vulnerable to year-round climate disasters. If the Fund can hit its campaign target of $250,000, the Footprint Project can make the key hires and build the institutional capacity necessary to address disasters whenever and wherever they happen, especially in under-resourced communities so often hardest hit.
This campaign is building upon an initial wave of support from individual donors galvanized by the DER Task Force, which is bringing over $60,000 into the campaign. The fund’s launch is a call to action for donors and partners from among the leading companies and investors in the clean energy industry to participate and help Footprint expand its model to communities across the nation.
Footprint Project provides cleaner energy for communities in crisis
To date, they have deployed 45+ kW of mobile solar and 170+ kWh of mobile battery storage to 10+ disaster response and recovery missions, providing emergency clean power access to 14,000+ U.S. citizens.
Footprint Project provided power supply resources in communities affected by recent disasters such as:
Hurricane Ida in New Orleans
State of Texas winter storms 2021
Wildfires in California 2020/21
Iowa storms 2020
Tennessee tornadoes 2020
Puerto Rico earthquakes 2020
The distributed clean energy community is coming together to launch an industry wide effort to secure institutional funding for the Footprint Project:
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An opportunity for the whole industry — DER companies, investors and institutional donors — to come together to support clean energy solutions for those in need
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Building a foundation so that the Footprint Project team have the resources to provide emergency power supply across the country
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Adding key roles to the team and growing their base of trained volunteers
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Expanding the number of affordable backup systems to help victims of disaster as soon as possible
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Designing and deploying standardized microgrids, portable units and charging stations
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Partnering with leading organizations in the communities most vulnerable to climate-related disasters
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DER industry members — in-kind donations of equipment are also greatly welcomed!
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Corporate donors and partners — reach out to learn about ways to showcase your brand and solutions as a Footprint Project partner
