About Energy Efficiency for All
Results achieved to date by EEFA partners
Our Vision
Powerful coalitions of affordable housing, health, energy, environmental, and community leaders drive changes in policy and practice to ensure that all renters live in homes that are affordable and healthy.
What We Do
Energy Efficiency for All unites people from diverse sectors and backgrounds to collectively make multifamily affordable homes energy and water efficient. We do this work so people in under-invested communities – particularly black, Latinx, and other communities of color – who have been marginalized can equitably benefit from the health, economic, and environmental advantages of energy and water efficiency. Reducing energy and water use in affordable multifamily housing will improve the quality of life for millions, preserve affordable housing across the country, reduce the energy burden on those who feel it the hardest, and cut carbon pollution.
How We Do It
EEFA builds power to change policies and practices by seeding and supporting coalitions in 12 states. State coalitions include a variety of housing, health, energy efficiency, environmental, and community advocacy organizations that have not typically worked together in the past. Only in collaboration can we solve the complex challenges that limit people’s access to affordable and healthy homes.
EEFA supports these coalitions by providing coaching, training and funding; coordinating coalition activities; conducting research; and providing coalition-building and technical expertise. EEFA produces and shares resources to help interested individuals and organizations tackle the roadblocks to energy efficiency and affordable housing in their own communities. Together, our coalition partners work to ensure that utility, state, local, and federal entities provide equitable investment to improve the efficiency of affordable multifamily homes; advance proven best practices in efficiency program design and implementation to help meet the needs of affordable housing building owners and residents; and advocate for policy solutions to ensure that non-toxic, healthy building materials are used in all home improvements.
We also created the Network for Energy, Water and Health in Affordable Housing (NEWHAB) as a platform for coalition members and diverse sector leaders to convene, learn from one another, and develop collective solutions to increase access to healthy and affordable homes.
Why We Focus on Multifamily Affordable Housing
Affordable multifamily homes are the least likely type of housing to have efficiency upgrades. Energy efficiency improvements in multifamily homes can reduce energy-related expenses, cut energy waste, and protect the health of residents.
Our work primarily helps communities and families that spend upward of 20 percent of their income on energy, a burden that is unsustainable for these communities and generally missing from our energy policy conversation. These families are getting less and paying more. We work to ensure everyone experiences their fair share of energy efficiency benefits.
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.
