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Our doors have closed. The work is still yours.
After six years at the intersection of climate finance, pension governance, and worker power, CFA closed its doors on October 31, 2026. Everything we built remains free and available here through July 2027.
A note from the CFA team
This is a story of completion.
CFA was built as a nimble incubator to prove that public pension funds could be moved on climate, that beneficiaries could be educated and activated, and that effective policy frameworks could be established. We proved it. The startup phase of our mission is complete, and the next phase of this work belongs inside the scaled institutions of the labor movement.
To our funders, partners, staff, advisors, and to every worker, trustee, stewardship officer, and organizer who trusted us — thank you. You made this work possible. You made it matter. The work continues. The movement continues. And we are proud to have been part of building it.
Read our full reflection →Six years of impact
Union leaders, members, and state pension trustees educated on climate risk and strategy
Trustees, treasurers, and pension staff supported in working toward policy improvements
People reached through our blogs, tools, and resources
Stakeholders moved from education to action — public comments, resolutions, and testimony
Resources
Everything we built, available to you.
Our guides, tools, and research remain available through July 2027. Start wherever you are in the work.
Getting started
Investing in Our Future
The essential guide for workers and union members who want to understand how their pension fund works and how to start engaging it.
Download the Guide →Tools and checklists
Resources
Practical checklists, guides, and frameworks for workers and trustees ready to act. Designed to be used — not just read.
Explore Resources →Featured downloads
From the blog
Keep Reading...
Pension finance, demystified. Ideas and stories for workers, trustees, and organizers ready to act.
Worker power
Your Pension Fund Is a Labor Justice Tool. It's Time to Use It.
Most workers know what labor justice means. Far fewer know that their pension fund is one of the most powerful and underused tools for advancing it.
Read more →Organizing
You Already Know How to Do This
The skills that make a great organizer — mapping power, building coalitions, holding institutions accountable — are the same skills pension engagement demands.
Read more →Climate strategy
Why Pension Climate Strategy Is Bigger Than One Tool
When people first learn about pensions and climate risk, the first question is almost always the same: why don't funds just divest from fossil fuels?
Read more →Practical tools
Investing in Our Future: 10 Ways Unions Can Harness Their Pension Power
Your pension fund is not just a promise of future security — it is a multi-billion-dollar pool of economic influence that union members have the power to shape.
Read more →Storytelling
Our Stories, Our Capital: How Worker Stories Can Shape Climate-Resilient Pensions
Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools workers and unions have for connecting climate impacts to pension governance and retirement savings.
Read more →Getting started
8 Steps You Can Take to Understand Your Pension and Protect Your Retirement
For many workers, a pension isn't just numbers on paper — it's a promise. But for a lot of people, pensions can feel complicated or out of reach.
Read more →Featured course
Your story is one of the most powerful organizing tools you have.
The Power of Our Story is a free five-module course featuring organizer Beverly Ortiz and investor Marcela Pinilla. Learn how to connect your personal experience to collective action — with downloadable worksheets for every module.
Start the Course →What's inside
The Power of Our Story — Five Modules
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CFA is one of the best resources for beneficiaries to start understanding how their public pension system works. CFA's guides and worksheets are invaluable in breaking through the jargon, in helping people see their fund's structure, and in learning how they can begin to influence their fund.
Jay O'Neal, Sunrise Project
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CFA’s workshops reminded our members that we’re not bystanders.... we’re owners. Our voices can push pension funds to confront climate risk and invest in real climate solutions that protect workers’ futures.
Mullissa Willette, SEIU 521 President