Working Power

We are honored to partner with The Rockefeller Foundation and be featured in the @rockefellerfdn’s Impact Report. In 2023, The Rockefeller Foundation and partners helped: ?? $1B+ capital mobilized through Zero Gap Fund ?? $1B+ in new deposit commitments for Community Development Financial Institutions & Minority Depository Institutions https://lnkd.in/emJ8K7m4

Exciting Opportunity: Join Our Team as a Special Projects Associate! Are you passionate about climate solutions, social justice and economic transformation? Do you excel in written communication, project management, and organization? We're looking for someone to work directly with our leadership team and collaborate on important projects in a dynamic, growing environment. #hiring a Special Projects Associate in the United States. Visit our website to apply or please share this post with your network. #SpecialProjectsAssociate #HiringNow #JoinOurTeam #CareerOpportunity

Working Power is thrilled to partner with Salesforce to hasten a justice centered clean energy transition. This grant is catalyzing new investment in locally owned community solar and resilient energy projects. Working Power co-develops and co-owns clean energy infrastructure with community based nonprofits to support wealth and power building and fund local priorities. We are honored to be in such good company with Groundswell, Inc. GRID Alternatives and many others.

Working Power is excited to welcome two new Project Developers, Julian Zepeda and Maryem Gad, to our growing team. Their combined experience includes financial analysis and affordable housing as well as project development.? Welcome Maryem and Julian! #communitysolar #communityownedsolar?

Working Power (WP) is?thrilled?to?be?featured in the?ImpactAlpha?article?Ownership and wealth building in The Great Deployment.?We launched?WP to "bridge market failures" and help "drive socially just, community-based, locally-owned economic development." We are honored to?collaborate?with community partners like?UPROSE?and Ecological Citizens Project, who are also featured, along with advisors like?Donnel Baird.?WP is?excited?to?partner?with the?Waverley Street Foundation?as an initial investor in WP's?new?fund utilizing catalytic impact investments?to expand our shovel-worthy project pipeline nationally to ensure?projects?are poised to?receive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds (GGRF) when deployed.?These historic national funds need to reach communities most impacted by climate change, enabling communities to benefit directly from clean energy and community wealth-building.?Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g34AnCwu #WorkingPower #UPROSE #CommunityOwnership #CommunitySolar #ECP

We are honored to welcome Yerina Mugica as the new Co-Executive Director of Working Power. Yerina brings two decades of experience focused on advancing systems change at the intersection of climate, community, and equity. She joins Working Power after an impactful tenure at the Natural Resources Defense Council,?where she successfully led program strategy and implementation with over 100 staff supporting and increasing the budget to $30M.?With Yerina's arrival, Working Power is poised to increase our impact exponentially. "I am thrilled to be joining Bracken Hendricks, Ian Fischer, Niki Molina, and the whole team and advisors at Working Power to scale shared ownership of community solar and clean energy models." - Yerina Mugica, Co-Executive Director, Working Power

"What it will take to make clean energy affordable - for everyone," a must-read opinion piece in today's Washington Post, where the co-founder of Working Power, Bracken Hendricks, argues that it's no longer reasonable to consider clean energy a luxury item, "nothing could be further from the truth," he says. Learn about the states spearheading policies and incentives that promote a fair and equitable transition to clean energy and the challenges that must be addressed. Check out the full article here: "https://lnkd.in/e-_cDmmC" Thank you to Bina Venkataraman

Exciting Opportunity: Join Our Team as a Project Developer! Are you passionate about turning innovative ideas into reality? Do you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment? We're on the lookout for a skilled Project Developer to join our growing team and contribute to our next big project! #hiring a new Project Developer in United States. Apply today or please share this post with your network. #ProjectDeveloper #HiringNow #JoinOurTeam #CareerOpportunity

Congratulations to the Ecological Citizens Project (ECP) and The Point CDC for winning the Community Power Accelerator Prize Phase 2. We're honored to partner with both groups to design community-owned solar projects. #communitysolar #ecologicalcitizensproject #thepointcdc https://lnkd.in/gwQcFc3T

Thank you to the determined leaders who ensured that "transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner" is included in the COP28 Climate Deal. This is the perfect moment to scale Working Power's clean energy and community wealth-building solutions. “Every investor should understand now that the future investments that are profitable and long-term are renewable energy — and investing in fossil fuels is a stranded asset.” —?Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s climate envoy. https://lnkd.in/eF3rPPjT