Person: Alex Grant-Hudd
Alex manages the day-to-day execution of U.S. Energy Foundation’s (EF) California grantmaking and projects, while ensuring alignment with overall program strategy and goals. She also collaborates closely with the West team to offer the highest-quality grantee engagement throughout the year and improves the West team’s systems, programs, operations, and collaboration. Alex joined EF from the … Continued
Person: Steve Gold
Steve is responsible for leading U.S. Energy Foundation’s legal strategies, including regulatory compliance, legal representation, enterprise risk management, and training. He also oversees the work of legal consultants and advises staff across the organization on legal risk matters within their purview, such as real estate, employment, benefits, reporting, and communications. Most recently, Steve served as … Continued
Person: David Emery-Peck
David leads the identification, cultivation, and stewardship process for a portfolio of U.S. Energy Foundation’s (EF) high-net-worth individual funding partners and prospects by designing and implementing bespoke and long-term funder engagement plans. Working with the Strategic Partnerships external fundraising team, he also helps increase EF’s reach and visibility within the philanthropic community and collaborates across … Continued
Person: Phil Ortiz
Phil supports U.S. Energy Foundation’s (EF) Northeast team by managing a communications-focused grantee portfolio and helping integrate strategic communications into EF’s state and regional advocacy efforts. In this role, he collaborates with colleagues across the organization to provide strategic guidance and resources to grantees, funders, partners, and consultants to ensure they are supported for maximum … Continued
Person: Brittany Edwards
Brittany manages projects, systems, workflows, budgets, and contracts to enhance operational effectiveness in the Finance, People and Culture, Grants, Legal, and IT/Knowledge Systems divisions at U.S. Energy Foundation. She tracks progress toward operational key performance indicators and researches and shares lessons learned and best practices to foster organizational learning and process improvement. Brittany’s most recent … Continued
Person: Grace Zitzler
Grace tracks and executes all steps in the grantmaking process for grantees to implement strategies and projects centered on reducing pollution from the U.S. industrial sector. She coordinates virtual and in-person convenings of advocates, funders, and other stakeholders, and serves as “air traffic control” for incoming communications and requests to the Clean Industry team. She … Continued
Person: Laura Schwantes
Laura supports the Local Power Program and the Southeast regional team by managing complex grants and contracts and relationships with grantees and consultants. She works with advocates and other partners to develop and implement tools and systems to support U.S. Energy Foundation’s strategy and grantmaking. She also manages projects within and outside her team, such … Continued
Person: Anthony Flowe
Anthony serves as the organization’s primary storyteller, responsible for ideating, executing, and overseeing content development for funders and other partners. Working with the Programs and Strategic Partnerships teams, Anthony synthesizes program insights into compelling stories highlighting U.S. Energy Foundation’s (EF) impact and lessons learned. He also serves as lead developer for a host of products, … Continued
Person: Sarah Elliott
Sarah leads the design and management of campaign strategies across the country that enable U.S. Energy Foundation to meet its climate and clean energy policy goals. She interfaces with funders and partners and works with regional teams to advise, support, and advance the campaigns. Previously, Sarah was Vice President of Programs at The Impact Project, … Continued