{"id":8429,"date":"2021-11-04T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:07:54","slug":"student-energy-secures-first-us-donor-sam-steyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/student-energy-secures-first-us-donor-sam-steyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Steyer becomes first U.S. donor to Student Energy Solutions Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On November 4th, Student Energy secured its first U.S. donor to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/about\/solutionsmovement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solutions Movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a\u00a0 global youth-led effort to directly fund and support the launch of 10,000 youth-led clean energy projects around the world by 2030.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September 2021, Student Energy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/student-energy-signs-joint-venture-aims-to-raise-millions-for-clean-energy-1.6195347\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">proudly signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newenergynexus.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New Energy Nexus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a non-profit organization managing climate tech accelerators and funds around the globe. This partnership enables Student Energy to move beyond educating and mobilizing young energy leaders to directly funding them. With New Energy Nexus serving as a fiscal sponsor, Student Energy will invest in youth-led projects and raise funds for the Solutions Movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our first U.S. donor, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sam-steyer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Steyer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is the Co-Founder and CEO of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joingreenwork.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Greenwork<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a start-up that helps training organizations in clean energy and the trades find jobs for their students. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Student Energy\u2019s Solutions Movement. Previously, he was Co-Founder &amp; Head of Analytics at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stationa.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Station A<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and held several data science roles at cleantech companies and nonprofits. Sam served as a surrogate speaker on his dad Tom Steyer\u2019s 2020 campaign in the Democratic Presidential Primary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S.-based donors can now receive charitable tax deductions by donating to Student Energy\u2019s partnership with New Energy Nexus. With our first U.S.-based donation now complete, we call on others to join Sam in funding the Solutions Movement! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Steyer becomes first U.S. donor to Student Energy Solutions Movement\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9A8nEYuqOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Sam Steyer and Danny Kennedy from New Energy Nexus<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4th, Student Energy secured its first U.S. donor to the Solutions Movement, a\u00a0 global youth-led effort to directly fund and support the launch of 10,000 youth-led clean energy projects around the world by 2030.\u00a0 &nbsp; In September 2021, Student Energy proudly signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with New Energy Nexus, a non-profit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-solutions-movement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}