Climate Change & Renewable Energy Grant

The Oak Hill Fund is concerned about the causes and impacts of global climate change. Civilization's continued insistence on burning fossil fuels (gas, oil, & coal) has served for too many years as an impediment to addressing global climate change. The Oak Hill Fund (OHF) believes that investing in programs, policies, and institutions which engage in stimulating a more robust market for renewable energy, specifically solar and wind, is an effective strategy for mitigating global climate change.

The Climate Change & Renewable Energy Program limits giving to the southeastern United States with an emphasis on Virginia. Priority is currently given to project-specific proposals that:

• Educate: Educating policymakers, the general public, businesses, and other key constituencies to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities
• Demonstrate: Non-profit projects that install solar and/or wind power on extremely low to middle income households and multi-family residences, including rentals. We use HUD's definitions of income.
  • A limited number of grants will be made for solar installations on non-profit owned non-housing facilities in Virginia only.
• Innovate: Creative financing models for solar and wind power installations
• Change: A limited number of requests to defend against harmful fossil and nuclear fuel projects will be considered