She started by doing community outreach for a $4 million federal grant–funded effort to bring solar to tribal homes and schools. Legal challenges against this and other Trump administration rescissions of federal clean-energy funding are underway. With federal funding yanked, ​“tribes were left with stalled projects, and the risk of losing all that planning,” she said. With federal funding cuts impacting many sectors, donors have shifted limited capital reserves to other pressing needs. Todd Halvorsen, the alliance’s head of energy finance and structuring and a clean energy developer with decades of experience at Solar Power Partners and NRG Energy, identified ​“development capital” as a key target.