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Transform the future of climate with the power of your donor-advised fund
There are no easy solutions to the climate challenge, and meeting climate goals will require significant investment in systematic change. Designate a gift from your donor-advised fund (DAF) today to advance the pragmatic technology and policy-based solutions we need to help manage climate change.
Use your DAF to power climate solutions
You have established a donor-advised fund for ease and the ability to simplify your charitable giving process. Name Clean Air Task Force as a beneficiary of your fund or designate a grant today to maximize your impact and help solve the climate challenge. Select one of these steps:
Maximize your giving
Log in to your DAF portal or contact your fund administrator to recommend a single or recurring gift to Clean Air Task Force.
Establish a lasting impact
List Clean Air Task Force as a beneficiary of your fund in full or in part. You can do this when you open a new DAF or at any later time by calling your fund administrator.
Put your fund to action
Talk to our giving team today and learn more about how you can use your fund as an action-based tool to help scale our impact.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-657-2722
Explore other ways of giving and how you can turn your philanthropic ambitions into climate action.
Vetted. Endorsed. Proven.
Give to Clean Air Task Force with confidence
CATF is consistently recognized as one of the most high-impact, evidence-based, and cost-effective NGOs in the world by respected evaluators. We have repeatedly earned Charity Navigator’s highest possible four-star rating as one of the Best Environmental Charities, and in 2023 we were awarded Guidestar’s Gold Seal of Transparency.
10 reasons why CATF is a good match for your charitable gift
CATF is 100% powered by philanthropic support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and collaborative funding groups from around the world. Thanks to the generosity of people like you who care deeply about addressing climate change and decarbonizing the energy system, we have the resources and talent to forge key pathways for transformation in climate action, including:
- Fighting coal in the U.S. and globally through a highly strategic and scalable campaign that has helped to retire more than one third of U.S. coal-fired power plant capacity over the last decade.
- Cutting methane emissions by harvesting new scientific evidence on the dangers of methane, launching the first global effort to manage methane, and developing the only methane mitigation planning digital platform to help countries estimate and reduce methane emissions from their oil and gas industries.
- Mainstreaming carbon capture and storage (CCS) as key technologies to control pollution from fossil fuels and decarbonize heavy emitting industries by informing and advocating for effective policies.
- Putting nuclear energy back on the climate and energy security agenda by conducting research and analysis and developing the conditions for advancements in the industry.
- Amplifying zero-carbon fuels like hydrogen and ammonia as climate solutions for hard-to-electrify industries, including marine shipping, heavy-duty trucking, high-temperature industrial process heating, ironmaking, long-duration energy storage, and aviation.
- Initiating catalytic efforts to pioneer new clean energy solutions like superhot rock energy and fusion energy.
- Informing the U.S. climate agenda by playing a major role in designing and enacting the largest-ever funding initiatives for climate technology in U.S. history via the Inflation Reduction Act ($783 billion) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1.2 trillion).
- Disrupting “business-as-usual” in Europe by creating the only options-based and industry-forward climate policy team in Europe to ensure that pragmatism trumps ideology.
- Catalyzing a new vision for an energy-independent and prosperous Africa by launching a visionary Energy and Climate Innovation in Africa program to support thought leadership, advance solutions to energy poverty, and catalyze climate innovation on the continent.
- Activating climate action in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by developing and advancing key industry research and policy design, and facilitating partnerships that seek to advance the rapid adoption of decarbonization technologies.
CATF’s 2022 Impact Report
Explore our latest impact report highlighting our work and global efforts to meet the climate challenge.
Who we are
We’re not just environmental advocates.
We get things done.
CATF was founded in 1996 by a small but tenacious team of lawyers, policy analysts, and energy experts determined to take on the climate challenge. Today, the organization spans the globe, attracting some of the brightest talent in the world to envision new practical solutions that offer promise and accelerate change. Our powerful team consists of 175+ experts who are strategic thinkers with decades of collective knowledge and experience, including analysts, advocates, engineers, communications professionals, business and industry leaders, lawyers, scientists and more.
Learn more about our work.
Make a gift that helps protect the planet
Join a community of engaged people from all walks of life who are committed to solving the climate challenge. By donating to CATF, you are investing in a team that delivers results and practical solutions, disrupts the status quo, and brings focus to what we can do today to responsibly manage our climate now and in the future.
For donation inquiries please contact CATF’s Giving team at: [email protected].
Choose from different ways to give
Charitable Family Funds and Donor Advised Funds (DAFs)
Contribute to our work using your charitable fund by recommending a gift to CATF. Please find our most recent 990 and W-9 linked here.
Our EIN number is 04-3512550.
Should you or your philanthropic advisor have questions or need assistance please contact Amanda Storm at [email protected]
Donations by Mail
CATF is able to accept donations via check made out to Clean Air Task Force and sent to our finance headquarters:
Clean Air Task Force
114 State Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
International Donations
CATF has partnered with effective altruism organizations to accept donations in the following countries:
- Australia: Effective Altruism Australia, Environment
- Czech Republic: Effectiv Spenden
- Germany: Effektiv Spenden
- The Netherlands and Belgium: Doneer Effectief
- New Zealand: The Gift Trust
- Spain: Ayuda Efectiva
- Sweden: Ge Effektivt
- Switzerland: Effektiv Spenden
- UK and the Netherlands: Giving What We Can
Wire Transfers
Directly transfer funds to our account using domestic or international currency. Please contact us at [email protected] for account numbers and transfer instructions.
Stocks
Donors may support our work through a gift of stock or other securities. If you’d like to make a gift of stock, certificates held by a bank or broker can be transferred to Clean Air Task Force electronically. Please contact us at [email protected] to learn more or to alert for transfers.
Bequests
To help you get started on your plans and legacy, you can use FreeWill, an online tool that guides you through the process of creating a legally valid will or trust. It’s easy to use, accessible online, and can be completed in 20 minutes. This tool makes it easy to designate a gift to the Clean Air Task Force to support our mission for years to come.
Qualified Charitable Distributions
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs), also known as IRA Charitable Rollovers, are a great way for CATF supporters aged 70.5 or older to maximize their charitable impact. These gifts are tax-free, regardless of whether you itemize deductions on your tax return.
You can use this trusted giving tool to make your tax-free donation online, print out the forms you need to complete the gift offline, or learn more about the benefits of giving QCDs.
Matching Gifts
Did you know that thousands of companies across the United States (and some internationally) match donations by employees to our organization? And some businesses match gifts for spouses, retirees, and part-time employees as well!
Clean Air Task Force’s employer matching gift program provides an easy way increase the impact of your donation through corporate matching gifts. When you make a donation to CATF, your company can double, triple, or even quadruple the value of your generous gift in a manner of minutes.
