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Community Climate Initiatives

Creating solutions that solve for the long-term effects of climate change requires collaboration. Through strategic partnerships, Intuit looks outward beyond our value chain into the communities we serve. By forging innovative pathways for community solar projects, workplace and educational development trainings, and programs that reduce food waste while expanding food access, sustainability solutions can be leveraged to power social, economic, and environmental prosperity. Learn more about these initiatives below.

Coalfield Solar Fund

In 2023, Intuit launched the Coalfield Solar Fund, one of our most innovative programs to date. This effort builds on the initial success of our school-top solar project with Secure Solar Futures in Wise, Virginia—the location of one of Intuit’s Prosperity Hubs. The Coalfield Solar Fund is a multi-year incentive grant program, led as a collaboration between Intuit, Secure Solar Futures, and The NEED Project, which provides grant funds to make it easier for public K-12 schools and community colleges in the coalfield regions of Virginia and West Virginia to install solar panels on campus roofs with no upfront investment.

In alignment with Intuit's job readiness program, the initiative also provides local workforce development pathways via solar apprenticeships, hands-on training, and direct experience in the fields of clean energy, solar, and STEM for high school students. The forward-looking curriculum, dubbed “Throwing Solar Shade,” not only prepares graduating students for potential careers in clean energy and an understanding of climate science, it also arms them with valuable training in Intuit’s Design for Delight methodology.

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"Much of my family has been in the coal industry for generations. As we continue to shift away from fossil fuels, there's a need to build a bridge between our community and the fastest growing renewable energy source on the planet -- solar energy. The Coalfield Solar Fund is not only about getting solar on rooftops and opening up new career pathways, it’s about ensuring that our community can play a key part in the transition to 21st century energy technology."

Matthew McFadden

Business Development Manager, Secure Solar Futures

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GRID Alternatives

GRID Alternatives provides no-cost solar systems and installations for qualifying low-income households in addition to providing hands-on solar career training Intuit’s partnership with GRID Alternatives not only curbed significant greenhouse gas emissions, it also provided over a dozen households with no-cost solar panels that will amount to an estimated savings of over $350,000 on electricity bills over the lifetime of the solar panels.

Additionally, the partnership enabled individuals to complete GRID’s solar installation workforce development training program, which trains individuals from a range of backgrounds in solar skill sets by providing them with the unique opportunity to participate in the installation process from start to finish. GRID Alternatives is also committed to making these training opportunities inclusive of groups that are traditionally underrepresented in solar including women, people of color, and those impacted by the criminal justice system. These participants now have the professional skills they need to succeed in a rapidly growing industry and power their own prosperity.

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Clearloop

Since 2021, Intuit has worked with Clearloop, a Nashville-based carbon solutions provider, to decarbonize energy grids while expanding access to renewable energy across underserved communities in Tennessee. We celebrated “flipping the switch” on our most recent Clearloop project in May 2024 in White Pine, Tennessee, near Intuit’s Prosperity Hub location in Morristown. Intuit and REI Co-op provided key funding support for the large-scale 2.8 megawatt direct-current project. It's estimated to prevent more than 162 million pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere over the project's lifetime. The system will also generate enough low-cost electricity to power nearly 400 nearby homes, reducing both climate-warming emissions and energy bills for residents.

To further support communities near the White Pine project, Intuit is donating 1,600 annual Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) generated by the system for the next 40 years. These credits will be shared between Jefferson County and Hamblen County schools, making these some of the first schools in the state and the broader Southeast region powered by renewable energy. Intuit also provided a $100,000 scholarship ($50,000 per school system) for high school seniors within the Jefferson and Hamblen County, Tennessee school systems to pursue higher education.

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The Farmlink Project

The Farmlink Project was founded by a group of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of eliminating food waste and food insecurity. Farmlink connects farmers with surplus crops with an extensive network of food rescue organizations across the country, providing logistics support and reducing administrative burden on farmers. Farmlink's work also takes climate action by avoiding methane emissions created when uneaten food ends up in landfills. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is nearly eighty-one times more potent than carbon dioxide so reducing methane emissions is a critical aspect of climate action. Intuit and The Farmlink Project joined forces in 2023 to reroute high-quality surplus produce from Southern California farms to communities in need in the greater Los Angeles region. To date, more than 13,000 metric tons of CO₂e have been avoided and more than 11M million meals have been delivered, thanks to this collaboration.

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TreePeople

Intuit partnered with TreePeople and the LA Clippers on a project to plant 710 trees in Inglewood, near Intuit Dome. Adequate green space and trees provide a myriad of positive health and environmental benefits that are often scarce in urban and underserved areas. The project’s goal is to advance shade equity by bringing cooling shade, providing additional green space, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Stakeholder Impact Reports

In 2024, we evolved our Corporate Responsibility Report into a Stakeholder Impact Report, covering all four of our True North Stakeholders—Employees, Customers, Communities, and Shareholders. These reports highlight our commitment to our True North Goals and the impact we deliver to our stakeholders. All of our historic reports are available below.