The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving, protecting, and expanding public access to climate and environmental data and tools.
To do this, we:
Work openly and transparently
Practice responsible data stewardship
Uphold partnership, collaboration, and respect
Share workload, credit, and decision making
We value:
Human and environmental health
Environmental justice
Data driven decision making
We are a coalition of several environmental, justice and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them.
Organizations Involved:
There are dozens of people and organizations involved; these are the few that are available to discuss and engage with this work publicly:
How We’re Funded
The Public Environmental Data Partners are funded primarily by philanthropic foundation grants through one or more of our member organizations, and through individual donations to our shared fund. We are grateful for your financial support!
Since our inception in November 2024, PEDP has received funding from the following foundations:
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Sustainable Cities Fund
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Patrick J McGovern Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Aspen Global Change Institute
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Hillspire, LLC
11th Hour Project, Schmidt Family Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation
Summit Foundation
Woka Foundation