Rivian has introduced preliminary award recipients for grants from its philanthropic arm, coming just a few years after the electrical automobile (EV) maker first detailed plans for the challenge.
On Monday, the corporate launched a devoted web site detailing the Rivian Basis, which the corporate first introduced in 2021 as a approach to offer funding to sustainability and conservation initiatives. Rivian has named the primary 41 grant winners, largely based mostly within the U.S., which is able to collectively be awarded over $10 million over the course of one- and two-year initiatives.
The awards vary in worth from $2 million to smaller grants between $40,000 and $60,000, with plenty of different totals in between. The Rivian Basis can be giving to initiatives with a broad vary of geographical scopes, with some being granted to these in particular U.S. states, throughout the nation, or in North America total, together with some footing extra international efforts.
The highest awardee was The Nature Conservancy, which acquired $2 million as a part of a two-year challenge to assist protect wildlife and shield cultural sources in California. Different high-value grantees included the worldwide Ocean Resilience Local weather Alliance (ORCA) and the U.S.-based Alliance for Tribal Clear Power, which acquired $1 million and $500,000, respectively.
Rivian Basis: preliminary grant recipients
- Alliance for Tribal Clear Power ($500,000)
- Billion Oyster Undertaking ($100,000)
- CalWild ($50,000)
- Conservation Lands Basis ($400,000)
- Cumberland River Compact ($100,000)
- Deep Sea Conservation Coalition ($200,000)
- Duwamish River Group Coalition ($140,000)
- Ecology Motion Middle ($60,000)
- Pressure Blue ($200,000)
- Pals of the Owyhee ($60,000)
- Grid Options ($300,000)
- Georgia Conservancy ($140,000)
- Greening Youth Basis ($120,000)
- Harlem Grown ($100,000)
- Indigenous Led ($250,000)
- Laguna Canyon Basis ($60,000)
- Maasai Wilderness Conservation ($300,000)
- Mad Agriculture ($140,000)
- Nationwide Indian Carbon Coalition ($300,000)
- Nature for All ($120,000)
- Northern Chumash Tribal Council ($140,000)
- Nuestra Tierra Conservation Undertaking ($100,000)
- Ocean Resilience Local weather Alliance (ORCA) ($1,000,000)
- Open House Institute ($250,000)
- Oregon Pure Desert Affiliation ($140,000)
- Prairie Rivers Community ($100,000)
- Resolve ($125,000)
- Uncommon ($300,000)
- Save The Waves ($160,000)
- Shelterwood Collective ($100,000)
- Society for the Safety of Underground Networks (SPUN) ($300,000)
- Soul Trak Open air ($40,000)
- South River Watershed Alliance ($80,000)
- Surfrider Basis ($200,000)
- The Ecology Middle ($180,000)
- The Movie Collaborative ($250,000)
- The Greening of Detroit ($180,000)
- The Nature Conservancy ($2,000,000)
- Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy ($100,000)
- Trout Limitless ($300,000)
- City Roots ($80,000)
- Vieques Conservation and Historic Belief ($370,000)
Rivian has additionally shared further particulars on every grant program chosen, which yow will discover on its web site right here.
Rivian Basis mission, renewable matching, R1 footprint report
Upon initially saying the philanthropic program, Rivian stated it will dedicate 1 p.c of its fairness on the time of its IPO to the inspiration’s efforts, as a part of a mission to make the “pure world” a stakeholder.
Rivian additionally introduced a renewable vitality matching initiative on Monday, wherein it’s buying 4.8 MWh of renewable vitality certificates (RECs) from U.S. wind and photo voltaic initiatives for each automobile it sells by the tip of the yr. The corporate additionally shared its preliminary carbon footprint report for the R1 Gen 2 this month, noting that it has decreased automobile carbon footprint by 15 p.c with the newly refreshed EVs.
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