We are solutions focused, not process focused. We make grants to scientists, research groups, and for-profit organizations entities with high-impact solutions.
We leverage our team's technical know how to apply rigor similar to an investment fund looking for results. Your dollars go directly to teams with the greatest chance of success or impact.
We know every minute counts when working on climate change, and we want to save as much as we can. We fund scientific teams within three months of review.
Our network of scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs have the opportunity to act as partners in our process: assessing and recommending teams and technologies that will shape our future.
We support the work of scientists in climate research and innovation through investment and the creation of strong, inclusive networks.
We believe that the strength of networks is in the breadth of their inclusion, the free exchange of information, and the quality of interaction.
We cultivate these aspects to better inform decision-makers in the private and public sectors, and empower people to deliver a just energy transition for all.
We work with individuals, groups, and institutions who believe that donating to climate research is a good use of risk-adjusted returns for their money - both for themselves and for future generations. They receive regular updates on the teams that have received their funding.
We regularly convene a group of experts to determine the most promising and most impactful research to accelerate with our grant investments.
We make investments to accelerate the R&D of these promising teams, and build communities of support around those researchers to move the research from the lab, to the field, to the factory, and eventually to large-scale commercialization.
The Shade Tree Network brings relevant parties in the public and private sectors together around an understanding of the most important climate science - as it becomes available.
We believe direct action and investment to accelerate change is essential to the survival of the planet. Now is the time to act — decades of delay have made this truly urgent.
Gregory Bennett
Director, Shade Tree Fund