ClearPath Foundation

ClearPath Foundation
Motto Clean Energy. The Conservative Way.
Formation 2013
Type 501(c)3 organization
Location
CEO
Jay Faison
Website www.clearpath.org

ClearPath Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Charlotte, NC and Washington, D.C. that is focused on "conservative clean energy". The organization was founded to propose and support policies that accelerate clean energy without expanding the size of government.[1]

History

ClearPath was founded by Republican entrepreneur and philanthropist Jay Faison in 2013 to change the conservative viewpoint on clean energy. After selling his majority stake in the audio-visual company SnapAV, Faison donated $165 million dollars to start ClearPath, with a mission of "accelerating conservative clean energy solutions"[2][3]

Activities

ClearPath advances its mission through "strategic grant-making, advocacy, and digital platforms", and focuses on energy policy, polling, and analysis.[4][5] ClearPath has conducted polling on Americans' attitudes towards clean energy with Kristen Soltis Anderson, finding that "72% of Republicans support accelerating the development of clean energy".[6]

Principles

The ClearPath website lists five principles used for analyzing policy. ClearPath believes in "small government, free markets, and American innovation", as well as pollution risk management, cost-benefit analysis and energy independence.[7]

Policy Areas

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, May 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.