Right Stuff Awards Dinner

On Friday, November 6, the Apollo Alliance will host the Right Stuff Awards Dinner and VIP reception at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. The event will honor five awardees whose work exemplifies the Apollo mission of creating the new clean energy economy. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio will deliver the evening’s keynote speech.

The Right Stuff Awards Dinner raises awareness and financial support for Apollo’s work promoting clean energy and good jobs in the United States.

Please make your commitment to share the evening with us and our sponsors now. You may buy tickets online or download, print, complete and return this response form. To learn more or to confirm your participation at one of the levels below, please contact Jessica Partch, Major Gift Officer, at (415) 371-1700, ext. 206 or email partch (at) apolloalliance.org.

Tickets

$250 – Single Ticket to the Right Stuff Awards Dinner

$1,200 (per couple) – Clean Energy Benefactor (click for more information.)

The Right Stuff Awards Sponsors

Additional Sponsors Include:

Steven M. Silberstein

Ellen Pao and Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.

Regis and Dianne McKenna

Robert Adler

Kimo Cambell

For more information, please contact Jessica Partch at partch (at) apolloalliance.org or (415) 371-1700, ext. 206.

The Apollo Alliance is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Awardees

Barbara Byrd

Barbara Byrd is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO and a member of American Federation of Teachers Local #2277. Her duties include overseeing economic development, workforce training and climate change issues, and chairing the Blue Ribbon Committee on Climate Change. She also coordinates the activities of the Oregon Apollo Alliance, housed at the Oregon AFL-CIO. Barbara sits on the Leadership Council for the AFL-CIO’s Center for Green Jobs and teaches in the AFL-CIO’s Leadership Institute.

Keith W. Cooley
Keith W. Cooley is President and CEO of NextEnergy, one of the nation’s leading accelerators for alternative and renewable energy technologies. He and his team facilitate applied research consortia, connect ventures and emerging technologies to strategic partners, and help companies find pathways to participate in this rapidly expanding industry. At the heart of this are the promise of innovation, the challenge of commercialization and the power of collaboration to meet the future energy needs of our nation and the world.

Fred Krupp
In his 24 years as head of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit with budget of $3 million into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Krupp is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as “the greatest green success story of the past decade.” Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming.

Terence M. O’Sullivan
Terence M. O’Sullivan has been General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – since January 1, 2000. He is known as an innovator among the newest generation of labor leaders dedicated to aggressive approaches designed to increase the power of working people in the 21st Century. O’Sullivan has guided the more than 500,000 collective bargaining members of LIUNA to the forefront of the labor movement, reshaping the Union into one of the fastest-growing, most aggressive and progressive unions in North America. Despite the decline in overall union membership in the U.S., LIUNA has shown steady and consistent growth.

Sally Prouty
In 2002, Sally Prouty was appointed President of The Corps Network where she works with its 143 member Corps who complete conservation, infrastructure improvement, and human service projects that have been identified by communities as important. The Corps Network is an advocate for the nation’s Service and Conservation Corps. Prouty’s work is concentrated on utilizing national and community service as a strategy to revitalize communities, preserve and restore the environment, prepare young people for responsible, productive lives and build civic spirit through service.