EarthShare Texas has a 30-year history of working with businesses to fundraise for environmental nonprofits and have evolved our strategies to remain relevant to businesses, employees, and consumers. To date, we’ve raised more than $20 Million dollars and counting.
Business Need:
Since 2007, H-E-B and EarthShare Texas have partnered to empower environmental nonprofits across Texas. To adapt to the changing needs of the environmental nonprofit landscape in Texas, these two organizations have refocused their partnership to center around capacity building and professional development for the teams behind conservation, environmental, and climate work.
Partnership:
Last year, H-E-B partnered with us to support six fellows’ participation in the inaugural cohort. This year, with generous continuing support from H-E-B, ten talented young environmental professionals were selected to join the second-ever cohort of the EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellowship program. Each Fellowship participant joined forces with a local nonprofit to meet specific capacity needs and take on a unique project.
The Solution
Summary
The mission of the Fellowship is to foster a vibrant and diverse Green Workforce that will lead Texas in sustainable development, creating a positive impact in our communities and throughout our state. This program creatively addresses nonprofit capacity constraints while building the green leadership pipeline.
Advantages
This ongoing support for our program demonstrates H-E-B’s solid commitment to uplifting the communities they share resources with. Meanwhile, as the largest federation of environmental nonprofits in Texas, our state-wide marketing and proud support of H-E-B lasts all year long.
Business Need:
Customers of Reliant, an NRG Company, depend on the electrical grid for their everyday energy needs. Meanwhile, electrical energy consumption and production emits carbon (which currently affects climate change). Reliant needed practical ways to protect the climate and the infrastructure its customers depend on.
Partnership:
Reliant EcoShare℠ creates a proactive partnership between the customer’s consumption and conservation. Since 2011 this state-wide program available to all Reliant customers has raised more than $2 million and grows monthly. Customers can help make a change simply by paying their bill, supporting all 30+ EarthShare Texas member charities missions.
The Solution
Summary
Through Reliant EcoShare℠, customers pay a small additional charge to their bill that goes towards donating to EarthShare Texas plus purchasing carbon offsets.
Advantages
Reliant EcoShare℠ creates a two-birds-one-stone approach. Reliant’s functionality and the environment are being protected by combining the contribution of an EarthShare Texas donation and purchasing of carbon offsets. Overall, this program supports clean energy throughout Texas every month it exists with continual marketing and proactive support from EarthShare Texas’ state-wide network.
