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The McKnight Foundation, traditionally Minnesota’s largest supporter of the Environment/Animals grantmaking category, will support several regional projects that develop uniform policies and solutions to climate challenges:
- $2 million to RE-AMP to reduce electricity sector global warming pollutants 80 percent by 2030
- $1 million to implement the MGA Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Platform and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord
- $800,000 to the Nature Conservancy for its efforts to conserve and restore the Mississippi River from its headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth in Louisiana
- More McKnight environmental programs
The Center for Rural Policy and Development awarded $1 million to Southwest Initiative Foundation to manage and implement the Rural Energy Development Initiative. The Minnesota State Legislature appropriated funds to the Center to be awarded to a nonprofit organization with experience in energy and community wind issues. SWIF was selected based its comprehensive proposed program model: providing assistance to at least 12 entities to develop wind projects to sell the energy to an electric utility, as well as raising awareness of the local economic, community and environmental benefits of renewable energy development, energy conservation and efficiency.
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