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Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefront of addressing climate change, but could smaller funders be more in touch with grassroots needs? Are big donors out of touch – or just stretched too far? Where is the money coming from, where is it going, what are the biggest wins and what missteps are being made along the way? Greg Dalton is joined by donors big and small for a discussion on harnessing the power of the purse in the fight against climate change. Guests: Tate Williams, Science and Environment Editor, Inside Philanthropy Larry Kramer, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Farhad Ebrahimi, Founder, Chorus Foundation Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director, The Solutions Project Dan Chu, Executive Director, Sierra Club Foundation Joe Speicher, Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.9

Fighting climate change isn't cheap.

0:39.1

So where is the money coming from?

0:45.3

Climate-1 conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans, and Democrats,

0:49.0

are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton. On today's program, tapping into the power of the purse.

0:57.0

Philanthropic organizations both large and small are taking on the climate challenge,

1:06.0

but there are only so many donor dollars to go around.

1:09.0

Compared to so many other pressing concerns in the world, how does climate change rate? There's poverty, it's bad, we want to do our best, but we'll be able to continue to work on poverty into the future. But we have 10 to 15 years left to deal with the climate problem, and if we fail that, we go over a cliff. Whatever we're going to do here, it's got to be something that can get us there in this short period of time. That's Larry Kramer of the Hewlett Foundation, one of the top

1:32.5

funders of climate causes. But in many ways, small to mid-sized foundations can be more effective

1:37.6

on a grassroots and community level. Farhadie Bohemi of the Chorus Foundation says that

1:42.4

means bringing everyone to the table.

1:44.8

We're going to need the folks who really care about housing or really care about transportation

1:48.2

or really care about policing, racial justice, any of these other things.

1:52.3

We need them to be part of the climate movement.

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