Rivian has introduced preliminary award recipients for grants from its philanthropic arm, coming a couple of years after the electrical automobile (EV) maker first detailed plans for the venture.
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 tasks. Rivian has named the primary 41 grant winners, principally based mostly within the U.S., which is able to collectively be awarded over $10 million over the course of one- and two-year tasks.
The awards vary in worth from $2 million to smaller grants between $40,000 and $60,000, with quite a lot of different totals in between. The Rivian Basis can also be giving to tasks 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 world efforts.
The highest awardee was The Nature Conservancy, which obtained $2 million as a part of a two-year venture to assist protect wildlife and defend cultural assets in California. Different high-value grantees included the worldwide Ocean Resilience Local weather Alliance (ORCA) and the U.S.-based Alliance for Tribal Clear Vitality, which obtained $1 million and $500,000, respectively.
Rivian Basis: preliminary grant recipients
- Alliance for Tribal Clear Vitality ($500,000)
- Billion Oyster Challenge ($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 Heart ($60,000)
- Pressure Blue ($200,000)
- Buddies of the Owyhee ($60,000)
- Grid Alternate 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 Challenge ($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 Outside ($40,000)
- South River Watershed Alliance ($80,000)
- Surfrider Basis ($200,000)
- The Ecology Heart ($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 you could find on its web site right here.
Rivian Basis mission, renewable matching, R1 footprint report
Upon initially saying the philanthropic program, Rivian stated it might 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 tasks 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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