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Five aspects of WOO-EE worked well

• MacArthur effectively used its reputation to convene influential organizations that work across sectors.
• Although WOO-EE lasted only four years, it built on the much longer WOO initiative, which allowed organizations to build capacity, networks to form, and ideas to be piloted and then enacted.
• WOO-EE helped build the capacity of organizations to ready them for loans from commercial banks.
• Foundation staff had enough content knowledge to select effective grantees.
• The foundation's considerable investments in the Preservation Compact (in Chicago) helped to incubate Elevate Energy, which has gone on to be a leading organization in energy efficiency and one that exemplifies MacArthur's influence on the field.

Three aspects of WOO-EE worked less well

• The foundation intentionally took risks with its WOO-EE project-related investments, several of which did not work as planned.
• The foundation originally conceived of the availability and use of energy data as a "lynchpin" for expanding investment in energy efficiency, but neither of the organizations that received WOO-EE grants related to data or benchmarking created tools that have gained wide use.
• Few energy-efficiency programs for affordable multifamily rental housing have gone to scale.