Focus Areas
Con Edison feels an urgency to confront the threat that climate change poses to our communities and help New Yorkers adapt to a changing world.
Our efforts focus on:
Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship
We will accelerate access to clean energy by prioritizing place-based investments, resilient infrastructure, and environmental stewardship.
Focal Points:
- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Projects focused on addressing the accelerated risks of climate change and promote nature-based solutions. Special attention will be given to initiatives that address extreme weather events, sea level rise, biodiversity loss, and the restoration or conservation of natural habitats and ecosystems.
- Environmental Stewardship: Initiatives that focus on equitable land use and greenway enhancement—specifically green corridors, pocket parks, community gardens, and local farms.
Program support may include stewardship of public lands, promotion of environmental education, coalition building focused on climate and energy policy, and leadership development for climate and environmental advocates.
Social Justice
We are applying our resources to help organizations and social movements that address systemic social justice issues—through skill building, action, and advocacy.
Focal Points:
- Human Rights and Democracy: Fund social justice organizations that are providing the building blocks to address discrimination, bias, and opportunity inequities for marginalized and disadvantaged communities.
- Economic Empowerment and Opportunity: Fund social justice organizations whose goals are to reduce the racial, ethnic, and gender wealth gap and expanding access to resources for nonprofits that serve disadvantaged populations.
- Community Resilience: Fund social justice organizations and projects that support initiatives to ensure that marginalized and disadvantaged communities have the capacity, leadership, and agency to address environmental, social, and political change.
- This focus includes support for climate justice implementation programs focused on areas such as emergency preparedness, extreme weather, and similar areas of impact.
- This focus includes support for climate justice implementation programs focused on areas such as emergency preparedness, extreme weather, and similar areas of impact.
Program support may include funding to assist with skill building, leadership development, capacity building, coalition building, civic engagement, and community organizing and outreach.
Clean Energy and Technology Careers
We will foster a new generation of workers by supporting access to education, skills training, economic supports, and hiring and/or career advancement opportunities. We are preparing more New Yorkers for well-paying jobs in emerging and in-demand clean energy, technology, and environmental science careers.
Focal Points:
- Skills Training: Training programs that equip new and existing workers with the skills and credentials needed for sustainable, well-paying careers, in high-demand clean energy and technology fields—with prioritization for individuals from disadvantaged communities.
- Career Exploration & Pathways: Programs, workshops, and initiatives that build awareness of career paths and further educational and career goals in clean energy and technology fields for young adults (grade 9 and above) and adults.
- Energy Ecosystems: Foster innovations, partnerships, movements, and coalitions that bring together business, training providers, and community organizations to develop clean energy and workforce strategies to help workers access quality careers and address specific challenges.
Program support may include skills-based training, barrier reduction and retention services, on-the-job training, apprenticeships, paid internships, career coaching, curriculum development, and coalition and network-building.
Eligibility
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