Learn how we are working to transform how we use and produce energy.
Leadership & Legacy Giving
RMI can help you achieve your philanthropic goals.
RMI is ready to partner with you, helping your philanthropy flow to where it can do the most good and deliver the greatest impact.
Why leadership and legacy giving
Together, we can scale what already works: reducing emissions, increasing affordability, enhancing security, improving health, and expanding opportunity for people everywhere.
Annual contributions of $1,500-$24,999
Solutions Council
Join a dynamic community of philanthropists, experts, and leaders driving bold climate action. Solutions Council members provide flexible support that helps RMI move quickly — advancing research, shaping markets, and scaling high-impact solutions. Through curated programming and expert engagement, you’ll gain insight into the innovations transforming the global energy system.
Annual Contributions of $25,000+
Innovators Circle
Innovators Circle donors accelerate breakthrough technologies and first-mover projects that can shift entire markets. Your support — whether flexible or targeted — helps RMI respond to emerging opportunities and scale transformative solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to engage with senior leaders and gain insight into the systems-level strategies driving a prosperous, climate-aligned economy.
Estate gifts of any size
Legacy Society
Create lasting impact by including RMI in your estate plans. Legacy Society members help ensure today’s solutions — expanding clean energy access, transforming industry, and cutting emissions — deliver progress for decades to come. A range of giving options can align with your financial goals while advancing a resilient, clean energy future.
What our donors say
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RMI’s impact goes far beyond what shows up in an annual report. It’s in the people they’ve influenced — people who’ve had some interaction with RMI and then are inspired and go do other things.”
Richard Kidd
longtime supporter and Solutions Council donor
Richard Kidd
longtime supporter and Solutions Council donor -
We get so much back in joy and sense of mission to be able to support RMI, even after we’re no longer alive. You can’t do what you’re doing without us. And we can’t do what we’re doing without you. It’s a community.”
Marge Wurgel and Keith Mesecher
Legacy Donors since 2004
Marge Wurgel and Keith Mesecher
Legacy Donors since 2004
Contact our team
Our team can help you align your giving with your goals. Contact our Development Office at develop@rmi.org or 303-567-8716.
Help build the clean energy future. Donate today.
Independent research. Real-world solutions. Supported by donors.
RMI can pursue the highest-impact climate and energy solutions because we’re supported by people who believe change is possible. Every gift helps advance the work needed to make clean energy the default choice worldwide.
For other ways to give to RMI, including checks or gifts of stock, please visit Other Ways to Give.
