WASHINGTON, DC (June 23, 2015) — Groundswell, an award-winning nonprofit that expands access to clean energy by empowering communities and organizing their purchasing power, is pleased to announce that Michelle Moore, a social enterprise entrepreneur and movement-builder in the sustainability community, will join the team as the new Chief Executive Officer, starting on June 23.
Groundswell’s CEO, Michelle Moore, starts June 23, 2015.Michelle Moore is an experienced business leader, nonprofit executive, and former White House official. Her accomplishments span leading sustainability efforts for the Federal government to helping build the global green building movement; McGraw-Hill’s GreenSource magazine called Michelle a “relentless agent for change.” She has created multi-billion dollar public-private partnerships to drive energy retrofits, developed new global climate programs for the Clinton Foundation, and led successful campaigns to double Federal use of hybrid vehicles and renewable energy. Michelle’s purpose-focused work extends to her volunteer leadership and other commitments. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, as a Senior Fellow for energy and infrastructure at the Council on Competitiveness, as Strategic Advisor to the International WELL Building Institute, and on the Advisory Board of Tribal Planet, a mobile movement-building company.
“Groundswell’s work empowers people to create a more equitable clean energy economy, and I am thrilled to join the team to amplify and expand Groundswell’s impact,” commented Moore. “Household spending accounts for more than two-thirds of America’s economy, and by organizing community purchasing power, we can make every dollar we spend support community equity and a clean energy economy.”
“Michelle’s leadership as one of the architects of the green building movement changed the conversation about how to make sustainability a fundamental of the largest asset class on Earth,” said Stockton Williams, Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing. “Her expertise in our space is an incredible asset as we move to make clean energy a reality for everyday people across this country.”
Moore will bring her nearly 20 years of experience in the clean economy to not only grow Groundswell’s environmental impact—which includes mobilizing over $15 million towards clean energy projects to date—but to also continue building a movement around Civic Consumption, the organization’s operating model of pooling communities’ purchasing power to drive change. After beginning as a single neighborhood initiative in Washington, D.C., demand from communities has driven Groundswell’s expansion across the mid-Atlantic U.S. The organization has switched over 3500 families and over 320 community organizations and small businesses to 100% clean energy, sparking a national movement for citizens to use their combined purchasing power to support socially responsible business.
Michelle joins Elizabeth Lindsey, Chief Operating Officer, and Eric Shih, Chief Strategy Officer, on Groundswell’s leadership team.
CONTACT:
Katy Gathright
Communications Manager, Groundswell
1156 15th St NW, Washington, DC, 20005
202.642.3248
katy.gathright@groundswell.org