ACEEE 

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy a nonprofit 501c3 organization seeking to advance energy efficiency across sectors including transportation and buildings through policy, programs, technologies, research papers and more. Their periodic State Transportation Electrification Scorecard, which ranks states based on a variety of actions they either are or are not taking from a set rubric, will include electric school buses specifically in the next iteration.

CALSTART

CALSTART is a national nonprofit that works with its member companies and agencies to build a high-tech clean transportation industry that creates jobs, cuts air pollution and oil imports, and curbs climate change. CALSTART and WRI provide technical assistance to school districts through a cohort model, including online facilitated working groups that offer knowledge transfer and best practice sharing. CALSTART is also researching electric school bus manufacturing and helping to execute workforce training working groups. These groups will help develop curricula for community college technical programs and electric school bus industry workers, such as mechanics, technicians and dealers.

Center for Transportation Electrification 

The Center for Transportation and the Environment works to improve the health of our climate and communities by bringing people together to develop and commercialize clean, efficient and sustainable transportation technologies. CTE works with WRI on three electric school bus transition planning projects to advance their efforts and tools to support the U.S.’s school bus electrification transition.

Chispa LCV and The Alliance for Electric School Buses

The Alliance for Electric School Buses is a national coalition convened by Chispa LCV with the mission to electrify the nation’s school bus fleet and prioritize the highest-need school districts in the most polluted areas — which, as data shows, are proportionately low-income communities and communities of color — while creating well-paying careers for the workers who need them most.   

Chispa Maryland

Chispa Maryland is a key program of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters (Maryland LCV), a state-wide, nonpartisan organization that focuses on grassroots activism and policy advocacy at the intersection of climate, equity and elections. Chispa Maryland works with Latinx communities to ensure they are engaged in the political process and have a strong voice to protect their environment and health through a grassroots organizing model of education, leadership building, and civic engagement. WRI partners with them on their electric school bus advocacy, which they do through lobbying, targeted advertising, outreach to key stakeholders and mobilization of their members.

Clean Fuels Michigan

Drive Clean Colorado (DCC) and CLEER 

DCC is a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders dedicated to clean transportation and efficient mobility choices like electric vehicles, alternative fuels and connected mobilities. CLEER works to accelerate the transition to clean energy economy, increase energy independence and reduce contributions to climate change. As experienced fleet electrification and funding coaches, CLEER and DCC will work with WRI to deliver in-person electric school bus workshops designed to connect and prepare school district staff and stakeholders based on their current level within the electrification transition. 

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)  

Electrification Coalition 

Environment New Jersey 

Environmental Law and Policy Center 

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy organization. ELPC produces strong results for the environment in the courtrooms, boardrooms and legislative hearing rooms across the pivotal Midwest states and in Washington D.C. ELPC has led efforts across the Midwest to transition school bus fleets from dirty diesel to clean electric school buses, and with WRI advocates for equity-first policy for electric school buses in Illinois. 

Equitable Cities

Equitable Cities is an urban planning, public policy, and research firm working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. They provide foundational research, guidance and technical expertise to center equity in the ESB initiative and run our internal equity education series.

Green Latinos

GreenLatinos convenes an active comunidad of Latino/a/x leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural and environmental liberation. GreenLatinos works with WRI to advocate for equitable electric school bus policies in Colorado.  

Manufacturing Renaissance

Manufacturing Renaissance (MR) is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization focused on advancing inclusive, sustainable development anchored in manufacturing. MR seeks to help expand racial equity, economic and social inclusion in local wealth creation, workforce and sustainable development. Manufacturing Renaissance serves on the ESB's Initiative's Advisory Council, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Steering Committee, and works with WRI, CALSTART and Michigan Clean Cities Coalition (MICC) to further electric school bus workforce development and training. 

MI Air MI Health

Michigan Clean Cities

Michigan Clean Cities (MICC) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization speeding the paradigm shift to clean transportation solutions. Designated through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Initiative, MICC draws national technical and financial assistance toward projects that address the nation’s reliance on petroleum fuels by switching fleets and fueling stations to low- and zero-emission vehicles and fuels and fuel conservation practices. MICC’s Clear the Air for Schoolkids initiative has operated since 2009 to offer technical assistance and fund development to support idle reduction and clean transportation technology solutions to cut emissions from school bus fleets. MICC is a participant in the Toward Equity in Electric Mobility Community of Practice and the U.S. DOE Clean Cities Energy and Environmental Justice Initiative. In collaboration with WRI, MICC works with Manufacturing Renaissance and CALSTART to further electric school bus workforce development and training as well as with WRI and Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation to increase utilization of electric school buses among Michigan school districts.

National Conference of State Legislators 

NCSL, founded in 1975, represents the legislatures in the states, territories and commonwealths of the U.S. Its mission is to advance the effectiveness, independence and integrity of legislatures and to foster interstate cooperation and facilitate the exchange of information among legislatures.

New York League of Conservation Voters 

Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)

WRI is a member of the SEPA and actively participates in the Electric Vehicle Working Group and in the areas of equitable utility engagement and outreach. SEPA is also a nonprofit organization whose mission aligns with WRI’s ESB Initiative. We mutually provide engagement opportunities and collaboration in written products.