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Open sourcing our frameworks, toolkits, and guides we use to deploy projects in real communities and help climate companies scale. These resources were built by Elemental and mission-aligned partners, and draw on a history of investing in more than 160 companies and deploying 100 projects.
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Community Engagement Strategies for Climate Projects
This guide helps company leadership and project teams engage with community partners to drive community benefits. The Elemental approach centers community input in every project and requires a local community engagement and benefit plan. This guide includes tools and frameworks – such as our Square Partnerships Model and resources for community engagement, compensation, and workforce development – that we have developed and tested over a decade of deploying projects.
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Allume Energy makes solar accssible and affordable for multi-unit residents
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BlocPower is Decarbonizing Buildings to Make Communities Healthier — and Wealthier
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Community Engagement Strategies for Climate Projects
Published September 2024
By Elemental Impact
This guide helps company leadership and project teams engage with community partners to drive community benefits. The Elemental approach centers community input in every project and requires a local community engagement and benefit plan. This guide includes tools and frameworks – such as our Square Partnerships Model and resources for community engagement, compensation, and workforce development – that we have developed and tested over a decade of deploying projects.
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Get startedTraversing the Climate Technology Scale Gap
Published June 2024
By Boston Consulting Group and Elemental Impact
Innovators often struggle to secure the funding needed to support early-stage commercial deployments. The result is a sizeable “Scale Gap” of $150 billion. Elemental and Boston Consulting Group met with over 100 investors and stakeholders from across the capital stack. This report presents key insights from these discussions and actions we can take collectively to ensure that the technologies most needed to make our planet and our communities cleaner, safer, and healthier are widely available.
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Get startedToolkit for Local Climate Action: For Mayors by Mayors
Published April 2024
By African American Mayors Association, Elemental Impact, and Environmental Defense Fund
This toolkit enables mayors and staff of small and mid-sized U.S. cities, no matter their level of expertise on their climate journey, to more readily identify policy actions, federal funding, and technological innovations to bring to their communities.