Oil and Gas Infrastructure

If built, new and expanded oil and gas infrastructure – from natural gas-fired power plants to pipelines, LNG export facilities, refineries, and petrochemical facilities – would significantly undermine climate goals. They would lock in fossil fuel consumption for decades, facilitating continued market growth of oil and gas, and impeding further integration of renewable energy.

Priorities:

• Organizations or projects that provide opportunities to block specific proposed infrastructure that potentially ‘lock in’ GHG emissions for decades
• Initiatives that anticipate and prevent new and expanded fossil fuel development
• Coalitions aimed at increasing NGOs’ alignment and effectiveness in opposing new and expanded infrastructure
• Efforts that increase funders’ coordination in and contributions to opposing oil and gas infrastructure project

The Kaplan Foundation is interested in organizations and programs doing the following work:

• Provide climate change education to young adults with a focus on taking action, including leadership development and opportunities for participation in advocacy and policy efforts
• Develop or disseminate scientifically accurate climate change curriculum aimed at educating high school and college students about the imminent and profound effects of climate change

• We prioritize opportunities where we think we can be most effective and that can engage our trustees; priority may be given to initiatives in states where more trustees live (e.g., California, Colorado, Illinois), but all geographies will be considered.
• Whenever possible, we are interested in partnering with other funders and stakeholders to leverage our resources.
• We consistently look for nimble and opportunistic grant opportunities, in an effort to be proactive, responsive, flexible, and open to new and potentially risky endeavors. We hope to encourage and support innovative approaches to problem-solving.