2011 ANNUAL REPORT

After the 2010 election swapped

the Minnesota House and Senate

majority party, Fresh Energy and

our allies moved into defense

mode. Protecting existing policy

against efforts to weaken or repeal

it required flexibility, patience, and

constant vigilance.

Successes came in implementation

of previous policy wins and in

setting the stage for future success.

Complete Streets policies—those

designed to encourage design

and operation of roadways

that accommodate all users,

including pedestrians, bicyclists,

and transit users—made roads

safer throughout the state.

The stories in the media and how

they’re told can powerfully influence

citizens and policy makers.

Audience for Midwest Energy News

continues to grow, and original

articles tell underreported stories.

Going forward, with the generous

support of our donors and friends,

we will continue to steadily advance

solutions to the energy problems

you care so much about. We are

grateful for your partnership.

We invite you to learn more, get

involved, and continue to actively

take part in this good work.

The energy system must change. It’s a big lift, one that requires the foundation of smart public policy. For most policy—especially that regarding a fundamental and pervasive issue like energy—significant change moves slowly, and comes only after years of persistent effort.

2011 was one of those years.

Historic downtown Alexandria, Minnesota is like a lot of other small cities and towns in greater Minnesota: the main street that runs through the heart of the community is also a state highway. This alone makes Broadway a pretty busy thoroughfare. But in Alexandria, the Central Lakes Trail runs a few blocks away from downtown, drawing 150,000 hikers and bicyclists to the area each year. While this amount of foot, pedal, and vehicle traffic is a problem every small town would probably like to have, it’s a challenge in Alexandria because there’s no easy way for bicyclists to get from the trail to downtown businesses. While Broadway has sidewalks for pedestrians, the environment isn’t inviting or safe for bicyclists. In the summer of 2010, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) announced its plan to repave Broadway. Wisely, Alexandria city leaders recognized an opportunity to make it safer to walk and bike in the area, something that would support downtown businesses and encourage active living at the same time. Earlier that year, the Minnesota Legislature passed the state Complete Streets law, a planning and design policy to make Minnesota roads safer for everyone in Minnesota, no matter how they choose to travel. The opportunity to incorporate it in downtown Alexandria came at the perfect time.

City officials held three meetings during the summer of 2010 that focused on Complete Streets and design possibilities for Broadway. The group decided on a compromise design that maintained all existing traffic lanes but narrowed them enough to add a separate bicycle path on one side of the road. Better sidewalks, trees, and plantings would make the street attractive for pedestrians.

Some community members were skeptical. But eventually, public outreach and education turned doubt into strong support, and in September 2010, just four months after the state Complete Streets law passed and city officials pursued the project, an enthusiastic City Council approved the plan. “Now the only concern we hear is that the project won’t happen until 2014 because people want it sooner,” said Alexandria planner Karin Tank. “There is genuine excitement to have an improved Broadway.” Alexandria shows how the ideas behind Complete Streets can work in Minnesota. Mn/DOT was open to the community’s vision to improve the Broadway area and make it safer for all modes of travel, not just driving. In the end, the city of Alexandria only paid $144,000 of the $4.2 million project price tag due to partnerships with Mn/DOT and local utilities. Now, Alexandria may adopt its own Complete Streets policy next year. Fresh Energy has been at the fore of the Complete Streets movement in Minnesota. We worked with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to create a toolkit with helpful tips, message points, and sample language, and we’ve been using it throughout the state to help communities advance Complete Streets policies. To date, 26 Minnesota communities have passed support of Complete Streets, second most in the country. And, the state Complete Streets law that Fresh Energy helped pass and is working with Mn/DOT to implement was recently ranked as the top state law in the country by the National Complete Streets Coalition. Alexandria’s success and a changing mindset at Mn/DOT is encouraging other communities to incorporate Complete Streets into their transportation planning. Nearby Breckenridge and Battle Lake both have key state highways that need repaving, and both passed Complete Streets policies this year, in part to demonstrate to Mn/DOT that they’re committed to providing safe access for all kinds of travel. Discussions in Breckenridge and Battle Lake are going well, and the dialogue bolsters the relationship between Mn/DOT and local partners. That’s good for public safety, good for local business, and good for greater Minnesota. Fresh Energy is committed to an ongoing partnership with Mn/DOT on Complete Streets, so that the examples of Alexandria, Breckenridge, and Battle Lake become the norm. We want everyone to feel safe getting where they need to go, no matter how they get around.

ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA DEMONSTRATES THE BEST OF COMPLETE STREETS

Alexandria city leaders recognized an opportunity to make it safer to walk and bike in the area, something that would support downtown businesses and encourage active living at the same time.

Long-time members know that Fresh Energy houses Midwest Energy News, a project of the RE-AMP media center, which provides support to more than 145 nonprofits throughout the region. Midwest Energy News has continued to evolve, grow, and drive the regional energy discussion. Originally conceived as a collection of the day’s best reporting on energy issues, Midwest Energy News has developed into an influential force in regional journalism.

Filling coverage gaps with enterprise journalism. In the last half of FY10-11, we published more than 30 in-depth original stories written by professional freelance reporters, covering everything from the economic impact of renewable energy standards to the disconnect between American and European news coverage of climate change. Our stories were republished by multiple traditional and online news outlets, including the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Reuters, InsideClimate News, Grist, OnEarth Magazine, and the Twin Cities Daily Planet. In addition, we’ve been publishing the Highwire blog since December 2010, featuring daily posts from editor Ken Paulman and, more recently, contributions from some of our top freelance reporters. We also developed content partnerships to expand our multimedia capabilities. In June, we joined forces with The UpTake—a nationally known citizen journalism website based in St. Paul—to provide a live webcast and archived video footage of a pivotal hearing over permits for the Goodhue Wind project, a controversial wind farm in southeast Minnesota. We will now provide similar coverage of key energy and transportation debates in the Minnesota legislature.

Building strategic audiences. In our world, what matters most is not how many people are reading Midwest Energy News, but who they are. Readers include business leaders, journalists, government officials, utility representatives, academics, and advocates on all sides of the issues. For regional stakeholders in the energy world, Midwest Energy News is a go-to source for reliable, fair, and comprehensive coverage of important issues. Numerous stories and blog posts caught the attention of major media outlets throughout the year. For instance, editor Ken Paulman was interviewed in July for an article by the Poynter Institute—one of the most respected names in journalism—because of his series of posts debunking myths about light bulb efficiency standards. We expect Midwest Energy News to continue to grow and improve under the leadership of new Media Center director Tom Elko, a journalist and digital media entrepreneur who helped launch Bring Me the News (bring.mn), a Twin Cities-based news aggregation site. For more information about Midwest Energy News, visit us online (and sign up for our daily email digest) at www.midwestenergynews.com.

MIDWEST ENERGY NEWS:GROWING, EXPANDING

When the 2010 election changed the majority party in the Minnesota House and Senate, there were clear signals we’d be defending existing policy in 2011. For the most part, we kept core policies in place, primarily because Governor Dayton understands the critical role energy policy will have for generations to come, and his administration worked with us to defeat most of the worst proposed changes.

Attacked: the 2007 Next Generation Energy Act. This law sets science-based carbon pollution reduction goals for the state, and its clean energy provisions have increased renewable energy development. Both the Minnesota House and Senate took dead aim at a key part of that law: the anti-backsliding provision requiring companies investing in new dirty coal to reduce an equal amount of carbon pollution in the electricity system. Bills to repeal that protective provision moved rapidly, despite Minnesotans’ clear support for clean energy. Fresh Energy rallied the public, urging thousands of people from around the state to contact their legislators and arranging for faith leaders and staff from the American Lung Association to testify about the moral and health problems caused by continued dependence on burning coal. On May 27, Governor Mark Dayton supported Minnesota’s continued progress on clean energy by vetoing the bill to repeal.

Attacked: the Renewable Energy Standard. Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES) requires all the state’s utilities to gradually increase the amount of renewable energy in their power mix over time. A bill was introduced in 2011 to repeal the RES altogether. Fresh Energy was able to fend off most of the attacks, with one exception. The RES was weakened for cooperative and municipal utilities that purchase old large hydropower. The upshot: those utilities could develop up to 20 percent less new renewable electricity.

Attacked: Energy Efficiency. This was the surprise of the 2011 session. Energy efficiency improvements benefit everyone. Customers’ energy bills are lower, utilities do not have to build or purchase expensive new power supplies, jobs are created, and there is no need for energy subsidies for new electricity. Among the challenges to efficiency were provisions passed in the house that would have reduced the energy savings goals for cooperative and municipal utilities to nearly zero, while maintaining the goals for large regulated utilities. This would mean that customers of cooperative and municipal utilities—ratepayers primarily in rural areas, small- and medium-sized cities, and suburbs—would receive few or none of the benefits of the state’s energy savings goals. Fresh Energy testified many times on this inequity, asserting that farmers and other businesses in these areas should not be placed at a competitive disadvantage. Ultimately, none of the provisions were enacted.

FIGHTING CHALLENGES TO CLEAN ENERGY POLICY

Information based on the certified audit by Mayer Hoffman McCann. Complete audit available upon request.

Statement of Financial PositionAssets

Cash and Cash Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,021,587 Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,073 Promises to Give Receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301,997 Accounts Receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – Prepaid Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,733 Long-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,366Total Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442,756

Liabilities and Net Assets

Current Liabilities Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses . . . . . . . . 125,623Net Assets Designated for Operating Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . 441,889 Designated for New Opportunity Fund. . . . . . . . . . 3,006 Designated for Endowment Purposes . . . . . . . . . . 75,000 Undesignated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,680 Total Unrestricted Net Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591,575 Temporarily Restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725,558 Total Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,317,133Total Liabilities and Net Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442,756

Statement of ActivitiesSupport

Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,962,028 Individuals, Organizations, Companies . . . . . . . . . . 111,597 Earned Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,501Total Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,105,126

Expenses

Media Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590,476 Clean Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563,797 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362,945 Global Warming Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358,803 Transportation Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,870 Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,937Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,232,828Increase in Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (127,702)

CURRENT BOARD & STAFF / VOLUNTEERS

2011 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT

CURRENT BOARD

Donna W. Allan Director, Office of Transit, Mn/DOT (retired)

Randall Anderson Senior Product Manager, Boston Scientific Corporation

Jim Bernstein, Chair Emeritus Director of Special Projects, Anoka Technical College

Martha Brand Executive Director, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (retired)

Paul Burke, Chair CEO/Owner, Hadley House Company

Sarah Dirksen Strategic Initiative Manager, League of Minnesota Cities

Anita S. Duckor President, Duckor & Associates

Ross Hammond, Chair Emeritus Management Consultant, R.D. Thomas & Associates Inc.

John Kes, Treasurer Vice President, Commercial Banking, Bremer Bank

Chuck Nadler Owner, Ascendant Resources, LLC

Beth Pearlman Senior Producer, Tremendous! Entertainment

Anne Weyandt, Vice Chair Founder/Partner, SheridanStowe, LLC

Elizabeth Wilson Assistant Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

CURRENT STAFF

Ross Abbey Policy Associate

Art Allen RE-AMP Commons Coordinator

Sheila Bayle Institutional Giving Director

Tom Elko Media Center Director

Kate Ellis Senior Policy Associate

Ethan Fawley Transportation Policy Director

J. Drake Hamilton Science Policy Director

Bethanie Kloecker Administrative Associate

Alison Lindburg Policy Associate

Katy Lowery Corporate and Individual Giving Director

Michael Noble Executive Director

Ellen Palmer Operations Associate

Ruth Patton Communications Director

Ken Paulman Internet Media Specialist

Erin Stojan Ruccolo Senior Policy Associate

Linda Taylor Clean Energy Director

Jenna Hartwig Wade Communications Specialist

VOLUNTEERS

Rachel Bird and Randy Anderson

Susan Boyd

Shannon and Paul Burke

Jim Campbell

Chuck Denny

Sharon Grimes

Monique and Ross Hammond

Julia Jackson

Ava Lambrecht

Hilary LeBon

Maria Surma Manka and Baron Manka

Brad Marshall

Dick McFarland

Nathan Nasuta

Jeannie Piekos

Katherine Schafer

Carin and Charlie Skoog

Noa and Ted Stark

Tadesse

Emily Williams

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Sandy Ahlstrom

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Elmer L. & Eleanor J.

Andersen Foundation

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Cheryl Anderson

Randy and Bird Anderson

Robert and Shirley Anderson

Sigurd Anderson

Suzanne and Timothy Anderson

Carol Andrews

Nancy Andrews

Alison Antoun

Tom Arneson

Louis Asher

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Gene Mammenga

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Terrance Brueck

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Bill Bruins

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David Bryan

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EnergyScapes

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Dan and Sara Holmdahl

Julie Holmen

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Stephen and Lusia Hornstein

Family Fund of the Greater

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Nathan Howard

HRK Foundation

Shirwin Hu

Michael Huber

Lucy Hulme

Karen Hulstrand

Anne Hunt

Monica Ingram

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Kathy Iverson and

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Ron Kroese and

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Lang Family Foundation

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POWER CIRCLE MEMBERS

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CURIE POWER CIRCLE ($5,000 to $9,999 in unrestricted support)Chuck Denny

Lang Family Foundation

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Elmer L. & Eleanor J.

Andersen Foundation

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Charles Sumner Bird Foundation

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David Chizek, MD

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Family Foundation

Patch for the Planet

Program, Lakewinds

Natural Foods Coop

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Satisfied, a Foundation

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Andersen Foundation

Bank of the West Matching

Gift Program

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Program, Lakewinds

Natural Foods Coop

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RE-AMP Steering Committee

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Ryan Companies

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Still Ain’t Satisfied, a

Foundation with Attitude

Sustainable Markets Foundation

Thomson Reuters

The Weidt Group

The Weiser Family Foundation

In Honor of Chuck Nadler

The William B. Wiener

Foundation

WindPartners Finance

TRIBUTE GIFTS IN HONOR OR MEMORYBridget Manahan and Joe

Alexander In Honor of the

Marriage of Emma Nadler

and Chris Thompson

The Weiser Family Foundation

In Honor of Chuck Nadler

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