Tony Bricktua

I’m the Senior Communications Officer at Climate Breakthrough, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that aims to resolve the climate crisis through our global philanthropy. We do this through the Climate Breakthrough Award, the largest climate philanthropy program for individuals. The program provides visionary social change leaders with $4 million in multiyear, flexible, non-directive funding along with other support to develop, launch, and scale their boldest new initiatives with breakthrough potential to address the climate crisis. Launched in 2016, the program is designed to overcome the common constraints of traditional grantmaking that often stifle breakthrough thinking. It blends the large-scale innovation focus of institutions known for pursuing inventions, like DARPA and ARPA-E, with the nimble and entrepreneurial spirit of startup incubators and venture capital.