About Energy Efficiency for All

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Energy Efficiency for All (EEFA) is a collection of 12 state coalitions building power to advance racial equity, and environmental and energy justice through healthy, energy-efficient, and affordable housing in disinvested frontline communities with historical inequities and disproportionate energy burdens. State coalitions include a variety of housing, health, energy efficiency, environmental, and community advocacy organizations.

EEFA coalition partners work together to 1) ensure that utility, state, local, and federal entities provide equitable investment to improve the efficiency and quality of affordable homes; 2) advance proven best practices in energy efficiency program design and implementation to help meet the needs of residents; 3) ensure that healthy building materials are used in all home improvements.

Since late 2020, EEFA has gone through a process to reimagine the initiative with partners working collaboratively to reframe the EEFA governance structure in ways that center racial equity, reaffirms the importance of respectful relationships across all coalitions, and recalibrates power dynamics and decision-making processes. What is emerging is a more nimble and democratic approach to the work of the initiative.

The initiative engages in a social impact network called NEWHAB (Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings), which is composed of people from all over the United States dedicated to a future where everyone has a good home, one that is permanently affordable, protects health, and contributes to climate and community resilience. The network convenes a community of peers, including EEFA coalition partners, who tap into a melting pot of technical expertise, community wisdom, and lived experiences to collaboratively explore sustainable solutions that address root causes and ensure good housing for all.

National Partners

Elevate Energy

Elevate Energy designs and implements programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. This “triple bottom line” approach—and the holistic solutions that result—makes us unique.

Elevate Energy seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities―no matter who they are or where they live. In doing so, we will significantly mitigate the climate crisis and improve the economic health of communities.

We want to work with everyone we can to help them reduce their energy costs—from homeowners, renters, and building owners, to nonprofit organizations, utilities, and municipalities, we’re creating programs that pair relevant technical solutions with education and outreach to improve energy efficiency in a major way, and create benefits for everyone.

Energy Foundation

The Energy Foundation promotes the transition to a sustainable energy future by advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy.

With more than 25 years of experience and a proven track record, we work to build a prosperous and healthy future for everyone, powered by clean, reliable, and secure sources of energy. A thriving clean energy industry will help grow the economy, offer workers good jobs in viable industries, strengthen national security, and keep our air and water clean and healthy—for today’s children and future generations.

Since 1991, we have supported and collaborated with grantees who provide education and analysis to promote policy solutions that build markets and opportunities for clean energy technology. Grantees include business, consumer, faith, health, labor, environmental, equity, and free-market groups, as well as policy experts, military organizations, think tanks, and universities.

National Housing Trust

The National Housing Trust (NHT) protects, improves, and maintains existing affordable housing so that low-income families can live in quality neighborhoods with access to opportunities.

We are the nation’s leading expert in preserving, improving and maintaining affordable housing – ensuring that privately-owned rental housing remains in our affordable housing stock and is sustainable over time. Using the tools of real estate development, rehabilitation, finance, policy advocacy in conjunction with sustainable practices, the Trust works tirelessly to ensure low-income families in every community have access to an affordable, healthy and safe home.

Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

We combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 600 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.