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Strengthen information spaces crucial for a climate-resilient future.
Clean Energy Wire is entering a new chapter, transitioning from a core-funded to a diversely financed media non-profit. We're looking for partners to build what comes next. Here is where you come in:
Book a call: Schedule a call with Clean Energy Wire's Executive Director Sven Egenter to explore how CLEW's brand of public-service journalism could support your own goals.
Send us an email: Share your ideas with us – tell us what your needs are, what you look for in a partner, and where you see opportunities to collaborate.
Donate: If you are not in a position to become a strategic partner, you can support us by adding your contribution towards CLEW's broader, more diverse funding base.
Your chance to shape the energy debate and the future of CLEW
Clean Energy Wire CLEW has built a trusted information space for a constructive democratic energy transition, effective climate action, and a resilient future.
Your support can now help us grow this space. After years of preparation, we have entered the decisive phase in the transition to a diversely funded media non-profit.
After twelve years, Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation are stepping down from their shareholder and core-funding role. This is part of their regular and proven practice of supporting partner organisations into full institutional independence. We are currently in constructive discussions with a prospective new shareholder to support CLEW's continued development.
Your financial engagement can be decisive: In a fast and radically changing information and political environment, we need support to leverage CLEW and its engaged global community of tens of thousands of journalists, experts, decision makers, and activists. The broader our non-profit funding base in the next years, the better we can serve a global public.
We will suspend our regular newsletter for a week – the first time since our first publication in October 2014 – and focus on the future of the energy transition debate, and our own role. From 6-10 July, the CLEW team will polish near-term ideas, and long-term strategies. We will present our analysis and the ways we are tackling the challenges, instead of publishing the latest on Germany’s and Europe’s move to climate neutrality.
We invite you to share your input and discuss ways to fund CLEW. We want to hear your ideas and needs: Tell us what you are looking for, where you want to collaborate, and how you can support our special brand of public-service journalism and network!
We are looking for foundations, institutions, organisations and individuals who see trustworthy, reliable, quality information as essential for democracy, international collaboration and the move to a climate resilient world, and who want to help shape its future.
How you could partner:
- Core, multi-year support – give CLEW the stability to plan and grow beyond a single funding cycle.
- Funding for specific projects or coverage areas – from expanding our international reporting to responding to the challenges AI poses for information integrity.
- Strategic collaboration – bringing your network, expertise, or ideas to bear on how CLEW evolves.
We have a strong track record of building a trusted journalism network on climate and energy topics, and look forward to building the right kind of partnership together.
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