EVERYBODY SOLAR INC

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A camp of the YMCA Greater Rochester, NY, Camp Cory sits on Keuka Lake, Camp Cory focuses its activities on building skills in self-confidence, independence, friendship, and offers everyone a sense of belonging.

Each year, Camp Cory provides approximately 250 scholarships, for a variety of programs (summer camp, school field trips, women's weekend, family camp), to low-income and underprivileged families. A full scholarship to one week of summer camp costs $850. With the savings Camp Cory will experience from having solar they will be able to provide an additional seven children with access to their programs or to fortify their staffing needs – their greatest resource.

Camp Cory has several buildings we are targeting for solar. The planned 31.93 kW system is projected to provide 32,949 kWh of energy in the first year. This offsets 51,368 lbs. of CO2 from entering the atmosphere; the equivalent of 54 barrels of oil, or of sequestering carbon from 596 trees annually.

Buckhorn Children and Family Services takes the most severely abused/neglected children and youth throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and offers them a sanctuary of health, healing and hope.

Every day, Buckhorn Children and Family Services provides services to over 200 children/youth. The children/youth have a broad range of backgrounds that have led them to need services. BCFS offer a tri-phasic approach to help their troubled youth cope with histories that include:

90% of children have a parent with history of drug abuse, with 60% of the youth having themselves used
75% of children have a history of attempted suicide
80% of children have a history of sexual abuse
70% of children have self-harmed
60% of children have multiple psychiatric hospitalizations

Guiding their work, BCFS provides trauma-informed care to their children and youth and ensure that each individual has a chance at health, healing, and hope.

Based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions is a nonprofit that promotes outdoor education, science, and touches on the history, and the society of the Southwest.

Bringing solar to CWG falls right in line with the values of their programming. Having solar will allow them to use it as a teaching tool and exemplify their “Leave No Trace” principles. In addition, the cost savings will make is to help provide more scholarships to disadvantaged youth, helping to bridge the access gap to outdoor education. Annually, Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions provides over $130,000 in school and summer scholarships to primarily NM students. Having the extra funding will allow more kids getting outdoors and connecting with wilderness, science, ecology and cultural arts while growing their land awareness and relationship.

In the heart of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the sixth fastest warming city in the United States, CDM is perfectly positioned to help families and the next generation learn about the potential of a low carbon future.

Each year, nearly 250,000 people visit CDM. The Museum offers a wide range of exhibits and hands-on learning experiences, including: RiverPlay, Excavation Station, Make It, Arts Alley, the Museum Tower and more. Currently, CDM has a 10kW solar energy system. This project will bring them an additional 50kW solar energy system which will be visible from the Lookout Tower and an interactive solar exhibit.

The projected savings from the solar array panels will support CDM’s many free and reduced admissions programs that serve over 50,000 people annually. These programs include a free monthly Sensory Night for neurodiverse children and Free Family Night for all families on the second Thursday of every month.

Bring solar to the Sulzbacher Village (SZV) and help support a permanent low-income housing community for women and families in Jacksonville, Florida. Sulzbacher Village focuses its efforts on providing economic empowerment, educational advancement, health and wellness, and character and leadership to its residents; enabling them to reach self-sufficiency over time. The Sulzbacher Center is the largest homeless provider in NE Florida. Each year, they provide over 70,000 nights of shelter, 472,000 healthy meals.

Operational costs can be pretty high between their multiple campuses. The use of energy-efficient technology, like solar panels, will allow us to not only keep our lights on but allows for additional funding to go directly to Sulzbacher’s services for Jacksonville’s homeless population. Sulzbacher has always proved a model of innovation and modernizing the way they power their campuses will serve as another opportunity to move forward and grow.

Bring solar to Nibezun and help preserve the Wabanaki language and traditions. Nibezun resides on sacred Wabanaki land along the Penobscot River in Maine, where they celebrate culture as medicine, provide an inclusive space for healing, and promote sustainability for all people and future generations.

Founded in 2016, Nibezun has strived to grow sustainably in support of its mission. By preserving and sharing this Wabanaki wisdom and culture through education and practice on specific, dedicated lands, Nibezun hopes to bring a sense of stewardship, sustainability, self-sufficiency, confidence, community, belonging, and purpose to themselves and others.

"We hope to ensure increased stability for now and for generations to come, and solar energy is the obvious next step on our path.” Nicole Alvater, Interim Executive Director at Nibezun.

Bring solar to the Glacier National Park (GNP) Headquarters building and help this iconic park expand its commitment to renewable energy and a more sustainable future. The headquarters building is the brain center of GNP operations.

“The National Park Services stands poised to always make a sustainable contribution to our national landscape and when opportunities like using renewable energy to power a building come along, we need to take advantage of this.”…” Going renewable on the Headquarters building will be our largest endeavor to date and will show the public we mean business when it comes to sustainable practices. This building is the nerve center of the park and I continue to work hard at converting major systems in this building to green solutions.” Says Jim Foster, Chief Facility Manager at GNP.

Like other National Parks, GNP depends largely on park admission fees from its more than 3 million annual visitors.

Bring solar to the St. Francis Center (SFC) in Denver and help people experiencing homelessness and/or who are justice-involved have a safe/warm place to sleep at the new 48-housing unit Warren Residences.

Every day, approximately 800 men and women come to St. Francis Center’s shelter seeking emergency assistance during daytime hours. St. Francis Center, established in 1983, offers a four-pronged approach to their services: day shelter, to meet immediate basic needs; permanent, supportive housing and case management; employment services including offering specialized career training to ex-offenders; and outreach to unhoused community members.St Francis Center Warren Residences - housing complex with 48 emergency shelter units The Warren Residences, SFCs third housing project in Denver, offers 48 studio-style affordable supportive apartments for men and women working or ready to work as a part of their efforts to transition out of homelessness.