The Foundation's Board of Trustees consists of six voting members, who serve five-year terms. Trustees are appointed one each by the Governor of Illinois, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the State House, the President and Minority Leader of the State Senate and Commonwealth Edison.

A MESSAGE FROM THE TRUSTEES

When we started out ten years ago, we knew the people of Illinois would want to know how energy efficiency and renewable energy would work to benefit them and their communities. With the solid practicality that's native to our Prairie State, they wanted proof that clean energy could work. They sought clear demonstrations that investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy would bring tangible benefits: that it would reduce energy demand, lower energy costs, improve the environment and help create brighter, healthier and safer places to learn, work and live.

Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation took up the challenge. We determined to invest through our grants in clean energy for schools, colleges, libraries, and museums; for health, recreation and child care centers; for affordable housing and community service buildings; for police, fire, court and government service facilities-the public and nonprofit institutions in each community that touch everyone's lives.

Over the last ten years we have partnered with local governments and school districts, colleges and leading institutions throughout the public and nonprofit sectors. Our grants have given them the resources to upgrade their lighting, invest in leading-edge building systems, put solar panels on school rooftops to introduce the next generation to renewable energy, and take the lead in launching the inaugural decade of new and rehabilitated "green buildings."

Parallel to our initiatives to conserve energy to improve the environment, we've worked to preserve treasured landscapes for young and old alike: the places where families come to camp, hunt, canoe, or just walk in the woods for a few hours to enjoy Illinois' very special natural heritage.

We have been prudent stewards of the resources entrusted to us. After a decade of grantmaking totaling over $168 million, over one-half of the founding assets remain, ensuring our capacity to sustain the momentum of Illinois Clean Energy's first decade and be a catalyst for new initiatives.

The Foundation's grant program has opened our eyes and minds to the possibilities and should inspire us all - Illinois residents, public officials, civic leaders, energy industry and environmental community partners - to work collectively toward a healthier environment.

Trustees of the Foundation

• Katie McClain
  Chairman
  
  
• Henry Gianvecchio
  Vice Chairman
  
  
• Wilson Frost
  Secretary
  
  
• Tom Pence
  Treasurer
  
  
• Jerry Adelmann
  
  
• Peter P. Peters