Capacity and Movement Building
Learn more about Community-Owned Solar.
Our Capacity Building Programs
PROGRAMS
Communities of Color Building Solar Capacity
Offering training for local groups in "community-owned solar," along with mini-grants, staff support and exploration of project development in your community!
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Now accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Solar Leaders in Community
Paid 6 month internships, aimed at bringing more People of Color into the solar field and providing support to our local community partners.
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Now accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Movement for Solar Capacity and Leadership
A free higher-level training, along with engagement in a learning community, aimed at individuals with, ideally, some existing knowledge of energy issues and their application in community, or at least experience in environmental or other social justice work.
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Now accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Partnering to Build the Movement
MOVEMENT BUILDING
Affiliated coalitions and organizations in the broader Community-Owned Solar movement.
Energy Democracy Project
The Energy Democracy Project is a collaboration of more than 30 diverse, local, frontline organizations across the United States. Together, we strengthen our collective efforts to democratize energy, and advance the emerging energy democracy movement across the country. The Project is distinct in its mission to build the energy democracy movement through dynamic organizational collaboration.
Regenerative Economies Network
We're a network of 9 groups (and growing) that have innovated our approach over a cumulative 70 years of organizational lending and community reinvestment in areas traditional capital investment has left behind. Together we've moved ~$100 million to 484 projects advancing a Just Transition in 181 diverse communities and tribal nations across the 10 regions of the EPA, from Guam to Puerto Rico, Alaska to Texas.