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Organization Trends
Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 1
Arabella Advisors is one of the Left’s top consultancies to foundations and mega-donors who want to make grants to “mission-driven” nonprofits. Its killer app is the Arabella network: a set…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 12, 2022

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Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 2
In an internal memo, Arabella and New Venture Fund makes little distinction between Arabella and its nonprofit "client"—evidence that the network internally refers to itself as “Arabella” instead of making…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 12, 2022

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Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Paris Rises from the Dead
San Francisco is awash in five things: Homeless people, discarded needles, garbage, human feces, and virtually unlimited cash for the environmental Left. This once great city by the bay is…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 17, 2021

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Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Tom Steyer
After Al Gore, Thomas Fahr Steyer is one of the best-known ultra-wealthy sages of the environmentalist movement. Since diving headfirst into electoral politics—signaling his interest in running for California governor…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 17, 2021

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Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Sea Change Foundation
On the more moderate end of the San Francisco “green” lagoon is Nathaniel “Nat” Simons, a Bay Area billionaire who made his fortune brilliantly managing hedge funds. Simons is the…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 17, 2021

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Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Energy Foundation
The Energy Foundation is unique as a massive pass-through funder endowed by liberal mega-donors to provide a new source of perpetual funding for the environmental Left. As its name suggests,…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 17, 2021

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Creatures of the Green Lagoon: ClimateWorks Foundation
The ClimateWorks Foundation was conceived in 2006 as a joint pass-through project of multiple major grantmaking foundations: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 17, 2021

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The “Dark Money” Behind the Effort to “Decarbonize” Every House in America
Arabella Advisors’ $731 million “dark money” nonprofit network is behind a campaign to cut off every house in America from natural gas and make them dependent on electric-only appliances, part…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 25, 2021

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The Left’s War on Coal: Why Coal Matters
“Go green”—and go broke. President Biden is in the White House and radical environmentalists are in the driver’s seat, with global warming taking a central role in every department and…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021

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The Left’s War on Coal: The Hawaiian Model
In 2017, Hawaii’s biggest utility provider announced it was shutting down AES Hawaii on Oahu, the state’s last coal-fired plant, in order to replace it with renewables in 2022, part…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021