Conservation Colorado Education Fund

Results: Conservation Colorado Education Fund has enjoyed a long and successful history in Colorado of collaborating on the key environmental issues of the day, working collectively locally and at the State Capitol, and establishing strategic partnerships to find success at the state and federal levels, including: • Ensuring that more than three million acres of Colorado wilderness will stay forever wild. • Setting a statewide renewable energy standard by citizens’ ballot measure, then increasing it to 30 percent and making it one of the strongest in the nation. • Working to minimize impacts from oil and gas drilling by updating public health, drinking water and wildlife protections in 2008 and continuing to push for further reforms that include the strongest state law requiring energy companies to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking). • Overseeing the second largest non-partisan Latino civic engagement program in Colorado in 2012. • Working to pass the landmark Clean Air Clean Jobs Act in 2010 that will ensure five coal fired power plants are retired by 2017, reducing the risk of heart disease, asthma, and pre-mature death. • Passing Senate Bill 252 which increases renewable energy like solar and wind for all Coloradans. • Securing Colorado as a national leader in protecting air quality in February 2014 with the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission’s historic vote to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas development.

Target demographics: protect Colorado's air, land, water, and people

Direct beneficiaries per year: all Coloradans through our efforts to protect our air, land and water.

Geographic areas served: Colorado, USA

Programs: Energy & Climate Change, Wilderness & Public Lands, Water, and Civic Engagement. In each of these areas, we focus on investment in organizing and outreach based around shared core values that can fundamentally change policy outcomes to advance conservation in our democratic society.