Yinka N. Bode-George

Founder, President, and CEO

Yinka N. Bode-George is the Founder, President, and CEO of Sustain Our Future Foundation (SOFF), a national nonprofit organization that designs and implements community benefit strategies within large-scale renewable energy and sustainability infrastructure projects. Her work is situated inside corporate transactions, renewable procurement, and other infrastructure projects to translate climate and sustainability commitments into place-based capital, community-led grantmaking, and durable local impact.

SOFF operates as a trusted intermediary between corporations, developers, and communities, shaping models and structuring financial mechanisms that create responsible development, shared value, and long-term community climate resilience. SOFF's work spans community co-developed grant programs, corporate consulting for climate and community impact, and collaborative project implementation across the U.S. At SOFF, Yinka cultivates strategic partnerships, spearheads impactful initiatives, and drives the company's visionary goals forward.

Prior to starting SOFF, Yinka led the strategy and management of Volt Energy Utility’s community impact practice. There, she piloted the Microsoft and Volt renewable energy and community benefits framework agreement - a Power Purchase Agreement that leverages corporate emissions goals to support community-defined prosperity and climate resilience.

Yinka has served as the Environmental Health Program Manager for the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, where she facilitated state-level policies on zero waste, toxic chemical protections, and sustainable agriculture by organizing a national network of legislators. As the former Public Policy & Program Manager for Maryland Philanthropy Network, she cultivated opportunities for philanthropists to enhance community conditions. Additionally, as program manager for Maryland Environmental Health Network, Yinka advanced policies promoting environmental health and justice in Maryland.

Yinka holds a Master of Health Science degree in Environmental Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She earned dual bachelor's degrees — a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health — from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Yinka’s leadership is rooted in the belief that climate solutions must be accountable to people and place, and that capital can be a tool for repair, not just growth.