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Staff Highlight - Leo Ochoa

Meet our Accelerator & Funding Assistance Manager, Leo Ochoa!

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We’re Hiring - Marketing & Fundraising Intern

VertueLab’s Marketing & Fundraising Intern will play a vital, hands-on role in supporting our outreach, engagement, and branding efforts. This cross-functional position is ideal for students or recent graduates to gain hands-on experience in nonprofit fundraising, marketing strategy, and digital communications.

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We’re Hiring - Partnerships Manager, Oregon

The Partnerships Manager, Oregon role is a part of the programs team that works closely with the ED/President to build and steward ecosystem relationships and develop strategies to amplify the organization's mission, vision and programs. They will oversee and expand our Oregon-based relationships, and ensure they are in alignment with the organization's mission and strategic goals.

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Tapping Into Federal Funding: How We Helped DayZero Enhance Access to Clean Water

VertueLab’s Federal Funding Assistance team supports underrepresented communities and entrepreneurs, helping them turn technical ideas and innovations into a reality. Through this collaboration, DayZero Water was able to unlock federal dollars for their Water Box, allowing them to provide families with access to clean water in places where treated sources are unavailable.

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When Collaboration Comes to Life: Inside the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub

Climate change remains a persistent and growing threat to community wellbeing and economic prosperity in Washington State. In the midst of unprecedented disruption to national policy and threats to the climate movement, it's clearer than ever that deep collaboration and marshaling our shared resources is how we can best support and accelerate climate startups in the Pacific Northwest.

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Portfolio Highlights: Community Energy Labs

The latest installment in our Portfolio Highlight series highlights Climate Impact Fund portfolio company, Community Energy Labs, a company on a mission to make smart energy management and decarbonization both accessible and affordable for community building owners. Keep reading below to find out more about our chat with Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tanya Barham.

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From Vision to Impact: Reflecting on 45Camp’s Acceleration of Diverse Climate Innovations

As we dive fully into 2025, we’re revisiting a bright spot from 2024: our partnership with Tabor 100 and Prosper Portland that resulted in 45Camp. In this blog post, we invited one of the 45Camp mentors, AnnaMaria White, to reflect on why programs like 45Camp are vital to supporting equitable solutions for the climate crisis.

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2024 VertueLab Research in Review

The research we conducted in 2024 reveals invaluable insights into the challenges our region faces and highlights the powerful solutions that can emerge when communities, entrepreneurs, innovators and funders work in harmony.

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Ways to Support VertueLab’s Mission This Season

The role of climate-focused nonprofits has never been more critical. VertueLab is stepping up to drive innovation and climate solutions when it matters most — but we can’t do it without you. Thanks to your support, we’re able to continue provide funding and other resources to entrepreneurs working on equitable climate solutions key to addressing the climate crisis. Here are some ways you can contribute.

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Staff Highlight - Will Lampe

Meet our Donor & Investor Manager, Will Lampe!

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A Beacon in this Dark Night

Whether you woke up last Wednesday morning or stayed up all night to see the result of the presidential election, it seems clear that our community currently remains in a state of either shock or profound despair. As I dropped off my son at school the morning after, we talked about what this all meant, how we will live, what will change, and how to move forward with this sadness.

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[Webinar] Diving into the communities building a sustainable future

Recorded September 10th, 2024

In conjunction with the release of our latest white paper, Communities Lead in Building a Sustainable Future, we recently hosted a webinar highlighting Sustainable Northwest and their work partnering with communities throughout the Northwest on projects that promote smart water use, clean energy, and healthy forests, farms, and ranches. Watch the full recorded webinar above!

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Minding partnerships - and minding politics

As Audre Lorde once said, revolution is not a one-time event. At VertueLab, we understand that the best climate innovations can come from those whose ideas are routinely discounted and sidelined. We are creating a region where low-income people and communities of color are driving climate solutions. Both partnerships and politics are key to our revolution.

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Mind The Gap

Recently, my 9-year-old asked me what the world will be like when he’s grown-up. I wanted to burst into tears. Instead, I simply replied: “Hot. It’ll be hot.” He asked: “Exactly how hot?” And I said, “very, very hot.” In moments like these, I’m reminded we have an enormous challenge before us.

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[VIDEO] Wings Conference 2024 - Break Everything to Save Everyone

Our President & Executive Director Aina Abiodun took the main stage at the 2024 Wings Conference to address the tech industry’s progress in addressing climate change.

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VertueLab Wins Stage One of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition

PORTLAND, Ore. – Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced VertueLab as a Stage One winner for the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC).

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[VIDEO] - Jumpstart Weekend Recap

Watch the video recaps of our two Jumpstart Weekends that took place in Washington and Oregon.

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VertueLab Named Phase 1 Winner As Part of NWCIN for EPIC Round 3

VertueLab, a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit addressing the causes and impacts of the climate crisis through funding and support of climate tech innovation, has just been announced as a Phase 1 winner of the Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Round 3 as part of the Northwest Cleantech Innovation Center Network (NWCIN).

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Jumpstart Weekend Washington Recap

Jumpstart Weekend in Tukwila, Washington closed out 45Camp’s two workshop events on a high note. Held at Tabor 100’s Business Development Center the weekend after Jumpstart Oregon, attendees came together over three days to share their ideas, team up to collaborate, and pitch before a panel of judges.

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Survey Results, Pt. 2 - The Hypotheses

A few weeks ago, we shared the results of the survey we sent out to get a better understanding of our community, stakeholders, and VertueLab’s existing strengths and weaknesses. We conducted additional research across the climate tech sector in the region, building upon the findings and feedback from the survey to shape an emerging organizational strategy. Here’s what we’ve discovered so far.

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