2020 Climate Education Fund

NVF provides incubation services for several other left-of-center organizations. Arabella Advisors, a for profit consulting firm, is the parent organization of NVF. Arabella was founded in 2005 by Eric Kessler, a Clinton administration alumnus and long-time staffer at the League of Conservation Voters. ^{2 3 4}

Background

The objective of the 2020 Climate Education Fund is to get younger people and people of color involved in projects that support left-leaning climate and energy policies. ¹ It was launched in 2016 with a $1 million grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. ¹

According to the Hewlett Foundation the New Venture Fund (NVF) is the fiscal sponsor of the 2020 Climate Education Fund. ¹ The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. ³

Arabella Advisors is the parent organization of NVF. Arabella is a for profit consulting firm that guides the strategy, advocacy, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. Arabella provides these clients with services that ease their operations and that enable them to enact policies focused on environmentalism and other left-of-center issues. The company was founded in 2005 by Eric Kessler, a Clinton administration alumnus and long-time staffer at the League of Conservation Voters who remains a senior managing partner at the firm. Between 2008 and 2018, Arabella’s nonprofits paid the company nearly $103 million in contracting and management services fees. ^{2 4 5}

Other examples of left-leaning NVP-sponsored projects include the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy (CAELP), Americans for Tax Fairness, and Climate Interactive. The Hewlett Foundation has also provided funding to CAELP. ^{6 3}