Clean and Prosperous America

About Clean and Prosperous America

Clean and Prosperous America’s grantmaking is built around pooled resources that move donor-directed money to community-based organizations doing voter engagement, community organizing, and climate-related civic work. A defining feature is the scale of its organizational support: the recent grants list includes a $2,235,000 grant to Capa Pac in Tumwater, Washington, alongside large support for Focus for Democracy Fund in Washington, DC, and Nebraska Railroaders for Public Safety in Hemingford, Nebraska. That pattern points to a funder that concentrates on infrastructure for civic and political organizing rather than individual projects. The foundation’s active programs show how that strategy is organized. Its Rapid Deployment Fund was designed to move late-cycle electoral resources quickly into grassroots voter engagement, including phone banking, canvassing, rides to polls, text outreach, and ballot curing. Another track, the Youth Community-Oriented Campaign, supports youth-led civic and climate education, voter registration, and peer-to-peer outreach in battleground and competitive geographies. Across these vehicles, the emphasis stays on community-rooted groups with underutilized capacity, year-round organizing, and direct engagement with voters.

What Clean and Prosperous America Funds

Voter engagement is central to the foundation’s work. One recent grant went to Center for Common Ground in Ruther Glen, Virginia, for organizational support, aligning with the funder’s broader emphasis on direct voter engagement and civic participation. Climate engagement appears through grants that combine civic education with climate education. The Youth Community-Oriented Campaign supports youth-oriented organizations conducting climate education, civic leadership, voter registration, and get-out-the-vote activity, while the Education Fund supports community-led 501(c)(3) organizations working on civic and climate engagement. The foundation also backs advocacy and community organizing. It gave $400,000 to Global Impact Social Welfare Fund in Alexandria, Virginia, for direct lobbying, and its pooled grantmaking structure prioritizes groups rooted in the communities they serve and conducting person-to-person outreach. That orientation is reinforced by recurring support for organizational capacity rather than narrowly defined project grants.

How Clean and Prosperous America Gives