The Spring Season of Science is blooming in our JROTC STEM Civic Leadership Institute. Women Veterans ROCK is working in partnership with the Roxborough High School Academy in Philadelphia. Our 2022-2023 Agricultural Science Project is a community-based, intergenerational initiative dedicated to planting a Community Courtyard Garden of flowering annual plants, perennials and seasonal vegetables for seniors. Our Intergenerational Science Project is in full bloom with our Women Vets and JROTC Cadets!
Climate Change Education is a critical component of climate action and sustainability. It exposes JROTC Cadets and Transitioning Women Veterans to STEM Career Opportunities in Environmental Engineering and Climate Sustainability professions.
Senate Bill 3774 of the 117th Congress called “Women and Climate Change Act of 2022 – addresses climate change and its effects on Women & Girls.
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The Green Economy: Clean Energy Has Diversity Challenges
“The climate solvers of today will be the millionaires of tomorrow. We aim for all to have fair access to the capital that will enable them to be a part of the greatest economic shift of our lifetime,” Oni told Insider.
How This Venture Capitalist Is Challenging Tradition To Solve The Diversity Problem In The Renewable Energy Industry
Ebony Flake – Aug 25, 2022
In 2019, Anthony Oni showed up to the first pitch meeting for his startup and noticed a stark difference between himself and the lenders seated across the table. The room reflected much of the venture capital industry: white men.
“When I walked into the room, I remember thinking, none of these investors look like me,” Oni said.
Oni was successful that day and in those that followed. He won funding for his clean-tech company, Cloverly, which allows users to neutralize their carbon footprint by matching every carbon-producing transaction with an equivalent investment in carbon credit.
And when a group of venture capitalists invited Oni to join their firm, he said yes. He is now a managing partner of the Elevate Future Fund at Energy Impact Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in funding sustainable-energy investments.
Yet for all of Oni’s success, the lack of diversity he witnessed during the process of securing funding for his company nagged at him.
“Being Black working in the clean-tech space was challenging and getting the attention of traditional VCs was a foreign quest. There are unwritten rules about access and privilege,” he said.
