Our mission

The Portland Clean Energy Fund is a story about us creating our own clean energy future, where new renewable energy and energy efficiency investments improve our homes, improve our city’s environment, train our workers, and support our businesses. Through the Portland Clean Energy Fund, we will lift up a community-led vision that builds resilience and wealth in the face of climate change and federal inaction. Our community can take proactive steps to fight climate change while addressing social and economic inequity by providing major new economic opportunities for low-income Portlanders, including women and communities of color.  

Cities all over the world are taking the lead on responding to climate change. In the United States over 1,000 Mayors have signed the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Unfortunately in the U.S. there is a lack of funding at the local level to implement the types of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that could meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating family-wage jobs.

Here in Portland progress has been made, but despite the stated goal of achieving climate solutions while creating jobs for local residents not benefiting from the current economic engine, low-income Portlanders have largely been left out of the process and the gains. 

Your support of the initiative will help ensure our success! Pledge to vote YES today.

Endorsers

Community Organization & Business Endorsements

  • Wonder Ballroom
  • Willamette Riverkeeper
  • Vida Massage
  • Verde
  • Urban League of Portland
  • Urban Greenspaces
  • Urban A.G. Solutions
  • United Nations Association of Portland
  • Twende Solar
  • Tivnu: Building Justice
  • The Waypost
  • The Main Street Alliance of Oregon
  • The League of Women Voters of Portland
  • The City Repair Project
  • SynchroSolar
  • Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
  • Sunbridge Solar
  • Sterling Law Offices
  • Solar Oregon
  • Soft Box Films
  • Slow Hand Farm
  • SERA Architects
  • Self Enhancement Inc.
  • SEIU Local 49
  • Rosewood Initiative
  • ROSE Community Development
  • Right 2 Survive
  • REACH CDC
  • Pyramid Communications
  • Propel Studio
  • Prisma Point
  • Prism House PDX
  • PortLaundry
  • Portland Tenants United
  • Portland Jobs With Justice
  • Portland Harbor Community Coalition
  • Portland Forward
  • Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc.
  • Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship
  • Portland Area CSA Coalition
  • Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF)
  • People-Places-Things
  • Passive House Northwest
  • Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon
  • Our Family Farms
  • Our Children’s Trust
  • Oregon PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
  • Oregon League of Conservation Voters
  • Oregon Latino Health Coalition
  • Oregon Food Bank
  • Oregon Environmental Council
  • Oregon Consumer League
  • Oregon Citizens' Utility Board (CUB)
  • Oregon Chapter, Sierra Club
  • Orange Splot
  • OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon
  • Onward Oregon
  • New Foods Market
  • Neighbors for Clean Air
  • NAYA (Native Amercian Youth and Family Center)
  • Nature Connect Northwest
  • National Association of Minority Contractors - Oregon
  • National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 82
  • NAACP Portland Branch 1120
  • Multnomah County Democratic Party
  • Mudbone Grown
  • Monqui Presents
  • Mixteca Catering
  • Los Mayos Taqueria
  • Local Grocer
  • Jubilee Oregon
  • Intelekia Law
  • Ink Built Design
  • Indow Window
  • Imagine Energy
  • ILWU Local 5
  • Human Solutions
  • Human Access Project
  • Hot Lips Pizza
  • Home Performance Guild
  • HELP/Create Plenty
  • Hacienda CDC
  • H.E.L.P.
  • Green Savers
  • Green Lents
  • Green Hammer
  • Green for All
  • Good Energy Retrofit
  • Friends of Trees
  • Friends of Outdoor School
  • Friends of Baltimore Woods
  • Forest Park Conservancy
  • Food and Water Watch
  • FMYI (for my innovation) Corporation
  • First Unitarian Portland - Community for Earth
  • Equal Exchange
  • Environment Oregon
  • Enhabit
  • Elemental Energy
  • EcoFaith Recovery
  • Earth Advantage
  • Disability Rights Oregon
  • Depave
  • Democratic Socialists of America (Portland Chapter)
  • Constructing Hope
  • Community Energy Project
  • Community Alliance of Tenants
  • Communitecture
  • Columbia Riverkeeper
  • Coalition of Communities of Color
  • Climate Solutions
  • Climate Jobs PDX
  • Climate Action Coalition
  • Cha Cha Cha Taqueria
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Center for a Sustainable Economy
  • Botanica Floral Design
  • Blossom Earthworks
  • Birdsmouth Construction
  • Beneficial State Bank
  • BCMC LLC Properties
  • Audubon Society of Portland
  • Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
  • Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757
  • Alpha Energy Savers
  • Alliance for Democracy
  • AFSCME Local 189, 2505, 3336, 3580, and 88
  • Accessory Dwellings Strategies
  • Able Farms
  • Abacus Energy
  • A&R Solar
  • 47th Avenue Farm
  • 350.org International
  • 350 PDX

Notable Individuals

  • Tom Kelly
  • State Senator Lew Frederick (SD 22)
  • State Representative Tawna D. Sanchez (HD 43)
  • State Representative Mitch Greenlick (HD 33)
  • State Representative Diego Hernandez (HD 47)
  • State Representative Alissa Keny-Guyer (HD 46)
  • Sam Chase
  • Naomi Klein
  • Linda Robinson
  • Jules Bailey
  • Juan Carlos González
  • Jo Ann Hardesty
  • Jackie Dingfelder
  • Chloe Eudaly
  • Bob Stacey
  • Bill McKibben

Faith Leaders/Communities

  • Rev. William Sinkford
  • Rev. Walter John Boris
  • Rev. Vern Groves
  • Rev. Tara Wilkins
  • Rev. Suzan Ireland
  • Rev. Solveig Nilsen-Goodin
  • Rev. Sarah Kinsel
  • Rev. Ron Werner Jr.
  • Rev. Michael Ellick
  • Rev. Melissa Reed
  • Rev. Mark Knutson
  • Rev. Lynne Snouse Lopez
  • Rev. Kerlin Richter
  • Rev. Katie Larsell
  • Rev. Kate Lore
  • Rev. Julia Nielsen
  • Rev. Joshua Kingsley
  • Rev. Joshua Dunham
  • Rev. Jonna Alexander
  • Rev. Heather Wenrick
  • Rev. Greg Neel
  • Rev. Erin Martin
  • Rev. Elizabeth Winslea
  • Rev. Elizabeth Durant
  • Rev. Eilidh Lowry
  • Rev. Dr. Mark Brocker
  • Rev. Dr. Janet Parker
  • Rev. Dr. Barbara J. Campbell
  • Rev. David Wheeler
  • Rev. David Knapp
  • Rev. David C. Dornack
  • Rev. Connie Yost
  • Rev. Chris Hyde
  • Rev. Chris Craun
  • Rev. Cecil Prescod
  • Rev. Bill Gates
  • Rev. Beth Neel
  • Rev. Aric Clark
  • Rev. Andrew Rickel
  • Rev. Andrew Guthrie
  • Rev. Amanda Zentz-Alo
  • Reb. Robyn Hartwig
  • Rabbi Debra Kolodny
  • Rabbi Callie Schulman
  • Rabbi Ariel Stone
  • Pastor Valerie Chapman
  • Pastor Donald Frazier
  • Pastor Craig Boly
  • Pastor Andy Goebel
  • Pastor Adam Phillips
  • Multnomah Friends Meeting
  • Havurah Shalom Governing Board
  • Eco-Justice Team of Cascades Presbytery
  • Bishop David Brauer-Rieke
  • Ainsworth United Church of Christ

Neighborhood Associations

  • Woodstock
  • Woodlawn
  • Sunnyside
  • Sullivan's Gulch
  • South Tabor
  • South Madison
  • Richmond
  • Powellhurst-Gilbert
  • Portsmouth
  • Piedmont
  • Linnton
  • Kerns
  • Humboldt
  • Hosford Abernathy
  • Foster Powell
  • Eliot
  • Cully
  • Concordia
  • Brooklyn
  • Brentwood Darlington
  • Boise
  • Arbor Lodge

 

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