Support A Climate to Thrive in 2024 Year-End Giving!

Your support is needed now, more than ever.

Ways to donate:

Via mail: A Climate to Thrive, PO Box 75, Mount Desert, ME 04660

Online:

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In the aftermath of the 2024 election, our year-end fundraising takes on more importance than ever before. As we reflect the role of community-driven climate work at this moment, we consider the following:

First, ACTT will maintain its passionate commitment to community-driven climate action. Earlier this fall, we organized our work into three key areas: an equity-driven transition to renewable energy, community-driven resilience building, and empowerment through education and collaboration. Our dedication to creatively engaging in this work – problem-solving while always focusing on the opportunities that exist within climate solutions – will not change. You may recall that there was very little support from the state or federal governments when ACTT began its work in 2015. We know how to operate during challenging times.

Second, local community-driven climate work and movement-building is more important than ever.  We cannot mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions to the extent needed through local solutions alone, but we can build a compelling model of how to simultaneously reduce emissions while also increasing local equity, capacity, collaboration, and resilience. Such models are essential; they inspire communities near and far to build climate solutions and they provide essential information and replicable templates that can inform and accelerate state, federal, and even national action. We have seen this to be true at ACTT. The sharing of our work with other communities has led to the creation of dozens of other community-driven climate action groups throughout Maine and elsewhere. And we have directly informed state planning and policy through lessons-learned in our work.

Third, resilience building work is also more important than ever. We will not stop trying to mitigate climate change because each degree of warming causes greater damage, but we are dedicating significant time and resources to increasing community resilience. This work includes: 

  • Developing and implementing  resilience plans through highly participatory processes; 

  • Establishing resilience hubs and peer-to-peer check-in networks; 

  • Supporting towns in improving critical infrastructure, ensuring safe drinking water, and sustaining working waterfronts and vulnerable populations; and 

  • Much more! 

This work also looks like cultivating spaces that foster networks of care, collaboration, and creative climate response. 

The other certainty after this election is that we cannot exist without your support. Over the past few years, federal funding has become a larger percentage of ACTT’s annual budget. To continue functioning at the level we have achieved, we will need the support of individual donors and the broader philanthropic community. Donations to ACTT translate directly into action; over 70% of our annual budget flows directly into programs and the remainder supports their operation and administration. As a newer, small nonprofit, we do not have an endowment. Annual gifts truly make all the difference in the world in shaping our ability to rise to the challenges of this moment and support vibrant, community-driven climate progress.

Thank you for your support of ACTT and for being part of this community! 

Read our 2024 Report for a glimpse into our recent work. Thank you for supporting ACTT today!