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Welcome To CCL Training!

We’ll get started at the top of the hour.
In the meantime...

Share in the chat: where you’re Zooming from

Bonus question: intention for your upcoming year

Turn your video on, if you’re able and willing!
Follow us online (FB, X, TikTok or Insta).
Slides for reference: http://cclusa.org/ engaging-with-ccl-community

www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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CCL Community Website Walkthrough

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/ engaging-with-ccl-community

Jan 9, 2024

Welcome to Core Volunteer Training! We’ll dive into content at the top of the hour but we’ve got some options in the meantime!

Share in the chat where you’re calling in from and something you appreciate about CCL.

If you’re new or newer, welcome! We’d love to hear what you like so far?

You can also follow us online.

FB: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobby
Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Slides for tonight: http://cclusa.org/engaging-with-ccl-community
Interactive training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/core-volunteer-training/engaging-with-ccl-community

At 5pm:

Welcome to Core Volunteer Training, which is a program created to help our supporters, especially newer volunteers, connect with each other around the world and empower them to achieve their larger goals for climate advocacy. This week’s topic is.. Engaging with CCL Community.

And I am your host Tamara Staton, CCL’s Volunteer Education & Resilience Coordinator. I’m so glad you’ve glad you’ve joined us! We definitely can’t do this work without you.

It’s likely that you’ve gone through the intro call and online climate action training, and now we want to help you JUMP into action in your group or chapter.

We encourage you to take notes or jot down anything that you want to remember to revisit.

Share where you’re calling in from and something you’ve come to appreciate about CCL.

Slides tonight: http://cclusa.org/engaging-with-ccl-community

Interactive training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/core-volunteer-training/engaging-with-ccl-community

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Housekeeping

Everyone is muted & this meeting is being recorded
For tech challenges: close other programs, turn off your video, see chat for link
Your Zoom set-up:

Participants

Raise Hand

Speaker or Gallery View

Mute/Unmute

Chat

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About Our Speakers

Brett Cease

CCL Education �& Engagement Coordinator

Tamara Staton

CCL Education & Resilience Coordinator

GPNW Regional Coordinator

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Three Learning Goals

Explore the trainings, resources, and tools available in CCL Community to enhance your climate advocacy.

Discover avenues for local participation that harness your talent and areas of interest effectively.

Understand the differences between and intended audiences for CCL’s primary websites.

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Our Agenda

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Reviewing Our Websites

CCL Community Walk-through

Q&A Discussion

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What Is Core Volunteer Training?

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Why Do You Advocate?

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What Is Core Volunteer Training?

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Relational

Informational

Motivational

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All CVT Trainings in one Place

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Looking Ahead: Our Spring Schedule

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CCL’s Websites Overview

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Two Primary Websites

citizensclimatelobby.org

community.citizensclimate.org

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www.CitizensClimateLobby.org

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www.CitizensClimateLobby.org

Our Primary Website: www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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We’ve got the tabs across the top: About, Our Climate Solutions, Blog, Take Action, Donate, Join CCL and Search.

Pause screen share to go to main page on other tab

Now, more details, esp. those areas that specifically support your engagement as a volunteer: (2 mins)

Multiple ways to get involved with CCL:

educate oneself online
dive right into taking action, connecting with others to learn as you go.
Hybrid

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Interactive piece: Ask to share in the chat or optimally by show of hands:

Where do you think you land? Do you prefer to dive in and learn online (a), connect with others and learn as you go (b), or do you feel like you’re more of a hybrid? (c)

For the educate-self first and foremost types: About tab, Our Climate Solution and Blog

About - provides details about who we are, the values we hold, our chapters, how we started, etc.

share drop down, talk for a few

Our Climate Solution - 4 key basics of the bill we support (the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act)

share drop down and talk for a few

Blog - provides the latest and greatest around organizational successes, suggestions and volunteer stories

For the dive in, connect and or learn through doing types: Take Action and Join CCL

Take Action - how do dive in and make a difference

3 categories: Get Started, Get Active and Take Action Now!
Review each and say a few words about those that matter most

Join CCL

Membership costs nothing and is a great way to not only show one’s support of the organization but to stay up to date on what’s happening and be informed about opportunities for training and engagement
When you sign up to join CCL you’re added to CCL’s database and receive an initial welcome message. With CCL's upgrades in Community, every new volunteer is also automatically provided a Community username, password, and added to our Weekly Briefing and Monthly Newsletter list. All new volunteers will receive a welcome message inviting them to attend our Wednesday Informational Session, and to visit CCL’s New Volunteer page.

Summary:

CCL public site is designed for you or your friends
as you are trying to get to know CCL as an organization,
either with the intention of if / how to get involved, or to learn the basics before diving in elsewhere online

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Carbon Pricing Info on Main WebSite

Our Primary Website: www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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www.EnergyInnovationAct.org

Energy Innovation Act Website: https://energyinnovationact.org/

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Additional Websites & Languages

This is on the bottom of CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/

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Time For Questions

Click Reaction & Raise Hand or

Chat questions or �*9 If On The Phone

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CCL Community Website

Logging in
Your Dashboard & Home Page
How to Get help
CCL Glossary & Basic Terms
New Volunteer Page

Setting Up Your Profile
Connecting with your Group
Action Teams
Community Forums
Exploring Resources & Training

30 sec - Again, our CCL Community website is different from citizensclimatelobby.org (or cclusa.org) in it’s purpose and thus the types of information it holds. It’s really designed for you, as volunteers, as people who are wanting to not only learn about CCL but more specifically to develop yourselves as advocates and potentially connect with others wanting to do the same.

So, let’s explore CCL Community so you can get a sense of what is there, what might interest you, and how you might decide to engage further. I’m going to give you an overview of ten key aspects of the site:

CCL Community (https://community.citizensclimate.org/)

Logging in
Your Dashboard & home page
How to Get help (Community FAQs, Community Tours)
CCL Glossary & Basic Terms
New Volunteer Page
Setting Up Your Profile
Connecting with your Group
Action Teams
Community Forums
Exploring Resources and Training

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1. CCL Community - Logging In

Getting Help: www.community.citizensclimate.org/help

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2. CCL Community - Dashboard

Our Volunteer Website: community.citizensclimate.org

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3. Getting Help - CCL Knowledge Base

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3. Getting Help: cclusa.org/help

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3. Getting Help - CCL Community Tours

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4. CCL Glossary & Basic Terminology

Action Teams
Ask(Primary/Secondary)
Levers of Political Will
Liaison
LTE
MOC

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5. New Volunteer Page

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6. Setting Up Your Profile

2 min

Another important area that offers you the chance to update and share more about yourself with is your profile page. In the upper right hand corner of any page in community, you’ll see your name and profile icon with a drop down arrow. If you click that arrow - you’ll see an option to view your profile, and by clicking on that, you’ll come to your About Me page. Click here to edit: https://community.citizensclimate.org/dashboard/edit/profile#form_Email_36

You’ll see profile editing instructions right on that page. You can fill out profile information to help other volunteers learn about your background and update your CCL info if you have a change of address or email, among other things.

Regarding privacy: The general public and logged out users can not view user profiles. Logged in CCL members can view your profile but not any personally identifiable information other than your name, city, and state, by default. You can change the default privacy options at any time. Your contact information is only shared with local and regional leaders so that they can contact you.

Next, let’s talk about another area you can set up on your profile, your interests...

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6. Setting Up Your Profile

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6. New Volunteer Handout & Interests

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7. Connecting With Your Local Chapter

2 min:

Highlight how to find My Community Groups from the Connect Tab at the top or on the left-side of your dashboard: https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups
Group Pages allow you to post in group-specific forums, share files, and find out other relevant information/links about your chapter.
You can join only one local chapter at a time, but as many action teams or chapter teams within your local chapter as you’d like.
A note about groups:

It can be confusing to understand the difference betweens groups, chapters and teams. On CCL Community, the term “Group” serves as an umbrella term for both Teams and Chapters. “Teams” refers to Action Teams, both national and local to a Chapter: groups of people who come together with an even more specific purpose than a Chapter (i.e. Grasstops Engagement, Veterans, LGBQT+, etc) “Chapters” refer to the group of people who gather locally and in person - usually monthly or more - in their town, city or area to take action together on a regular basis (outside of the Online CCL Community, people may also use the term Group to refer to their local CCL Chapter).

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Chapter Teams

Lobby Team

Lobbies Member of Congress

Grasstops Team

Endorsements

Collaborations

Media Team

Letters, Articles, Social Media, and Endorsements

Grassroots Team

Tabling & Presentations

Group & Volunteer Development Team

Monthly Meetings, Training, Hospitality

Grassroots Team

Tabling

Presentations

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CCL’s Monthly Meetings

2 min

Monthly Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet

Next let’s talk about groups, or chapters, for a moment.

Monthly Meetings are mainly occurring online at the moment, though before COVID they often took place at a local home, coffee shop, church, community center.

The calls are on the second Saturday of each month, but the chapters vary when they participate as they are recorded and can tune in whenever the best time is that works for most local volunteers.

Monthly meetings provide people an opportunity to get to know each other, build community, learn together, empower each other);

They also provide learning opportunities, which helps to create the political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.

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8. Action Teams

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What Are Teams?

CCL chapters and local group come in all sizes.
As local chapters grow they form teams to help organize/focus
Teams may choose to organize around a specific function such as working with the media, tabling and/or speaking at public events, or lobbying a member of Congress.

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Advantages Of Teams

Supportive and inclusive
Invested in your success
Provides more stability
Expands outreach
Divides up complex tasks
Avoids overloading too few people

1 min:

Look at slide to highlight advantages briefly.

Advantages of a Team Organizational Structure -

The team organizational structure may make the chapter seem more supportive and inclusive.
Members have a stake in their chapter when given an opportunity to be involved in a specific way.
Members may be more likely to continue their involvement.
As chapter members come and go, having a team organizational structure ensures more stability for chapter activities.
Members have an immediate way to become involved in their chapter, in addition to attending monthly national call meetings.
Teams can expand outreach into the community.
Teams are an effective way to divide up complex tasks.
Teams can help avoid overloading too few people with too much work.
Teams can meet regularly to strategize, plan and carry out activities, thereby extending member involvement in CCL past the monthly national call meetings.
Teams can be added or deleted as a chapter’s membership and activities grow and their needs change.

How to Include

Include team reports at monthly national call meetings. Each team leader, or a member of the team, gives a description of what the team’s function and a report of what’s coming up for the team that month so that new and prospective members can learn about chapter activities and be informed of upcoming team meetings.
Pass around a sign-up sheet for new and prospective members to indicate their willingness to be on teams which need members.

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9. CCL Community Sitewide Forums

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Posting In The Forums

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10. Exploring Our Resources & Training

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10. Resources & Training: All Topics

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10. Resources & Training: Topic Pages

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10. Exploring Our Resources & Training

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Time For Questions

Click microphone to unmute or *6 if you’ve dialed in

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Share with social media, with your chapter, family and friends!

�Upcoming & Recent Trainings:

Resources & Training Tab → All Topics → Find trainings by specific categories

This Interactive Online Training: �Search for Chapter Development Basics on CCL Community�

Taking Action & Finding Resources

Climate Advocacy �Certificate Program: �Post responses in the CACP �Group Forum

Log Your Training

After each training OR� in the Action Tracker

To save the chat, click the 3 dots…

If you’ve found any of the links shared useful tonight and want to save the chat as a .txt file on your computer

Click on your chat window in Zoom
Move your mouse over to the triple dot - elipsis button seen on the top of the screen and click it
From the dropdown menu - click “Save Chat” and look for the .txt file where your computer saves downloads from the internet.

Where to find the training on Community—under Resources & Training Tab, you’ll see “all topics”, you can find trainings by specific categories:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics#upcomingTraining
Community.Citizensclimate.Org/topics#recent-trainings

Tonight’s interactive online training:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/core-volunteer-training/engaging-with-ccl-community

Climate Advocacy Certificate Program Forum: (Winter 2024)

https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/2983

Log Your Training: fastest way - click link in the chat and your training will be logged automagically for you

http://community.citizensclimate.org/log_training?sf_id=a5y8X0000005xatQAA

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Log Your Training

At the End of each Training:

Through the Action Tracker:

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Thank You!

Questions? Ask on CCL Community’s Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/forums

Tamara Staton: � tamara.staton@citizensclimatelobby.org

Core Volunteer Training: �https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/core-volunteer-training

www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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What About You?

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“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Reflecting On Your Climate Advocacy Role

Passion: What do you enjoy doing? What do you love doing in your community and the natural world?
Purpose: What have your experiences prepared you to do? What motivates you to do this work?
Potential: What skills and knowledge base would you like to build?

It can be helpful to explore three key areas of your life to help you hone in on what matters and where to go:

Play: What do you enjoy doing? What do you love doing in community or in nature or about the earth?
Purpose: What has your experience prepared you to do? What motivates you to do this work?
Potential: What skills and knowledge base would you like to build?

When people are doing the things that they enjoy, or that they believe are important, or that they want to improve at, they are motivated by play, purpose and potential--the most powerful motivators. Their feeling of growth and fulfillment can become contagious in your group and for those around you.

So, take a minute to consider the above questions - jot down a few words or phrases in your notebook, or if you’re willing, in the chat to share which of these 3 topics you’re feeling called to the most right now.

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Benefits Of Breakout Discussions

Key Factors to Involvement & Success

Setting goals
Having a support system
Celebrating our accomplishments together

We can provide this support for each other!

And now, we want to give you an opportunity to explore these questions more deeply in breakout rooms in small groups of 3 or so.

For some of us, it can be helpful to share our thoughts and reactions with each other. In fact, research highlights there are several key factors that help support us in getting more involved and being successful with our climate advocacy plans.

1. Set specific & measurable short-term and “stretch” goals

2. Have a support system

3. Celebrate our accomplishments

Each week’s Core Volunteer Training action plan intends to help provide volunteers with this support framework to infuse our plan-making with all three factors to help our volunteers find the success they are motivated to achieve!

Break them into groups of 3-4.

They will have 3-4 mins.

Share and Add following to chat:

Introduce each other briefly, name, location, time with CCL.

Then explore with each other the following question: What do you love doing, or feel interested in learning more about, and how do you see this translating into your climate advocacy?

Person with the birthday closest to now goes first.

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Developing Your Personal Mission

Take a moment to slow down and reflect:

What makes you come alive? �Why are you here?

Use these reflection questions to guide you to begin writing down your mission.
As you develop your mission, write it down and place it where you can take a moment to remind yourself daily of your mission.

A vision statement focuses on tomorrow and what an organization wants to ultimately become. A mission statement focuses on today and what an organization does to achieve it. Both are vital in directing goals.

Exercise #1 & 2(combined): NY23 interview sheet (revised) & Going through the

Volunteer Opps handout:

What do you enjoy doing?

What has your experience prepared you to do?

What skills and knowledge base would you like to build?

What motivates you to do this work? What do you love in nature or about the earth?

What do you find to be FUN about this work?

Where do you find PURPOSE and meaning volunteering on climate issues?

What do you see as your POTENTIAL in your group?

Link to Volunteer Opportunity Hand-out: https://community.citizensclimatelobby.org/take-action/start-a-local-group/volunteer-opportunities-handout/

If this is the first time you’re on Zoom, let me know--raise your hand. Exit Out of Full Screen: in upper right

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Sharing Your Mission Statement

Be bold and write down your mission in a sentence (or two) and tape it up to your mirror or a place that you’ll be reminded of your focus and goals each and every day.

Jay Butera’s Example from the #CCL2016 Conference

A vision statement focuses on tomorrow and what an organization wants to ultimately become. A mission statement focuses on today and what an organization does to achieve it. Both are vital in directing goals. 8:10

Exercise #1 & 2(combined): NY23 interview sheet (revised) & Going through the

Volunteer Opps handout:

What do you enjoy doing?

What has your experience prepared you to do?

What skills and knowledge base would you like to build?

What motivates you to do this work? What do you love in nature or about the earth?

What do you find to be FUN about this work?

Where do you find PURPOSE and meaning volunteering on climate issues?

What do you see as your POTENTIAL in your group?

Link to Volunteer Opportunity Hand-out: https://community.citizensclimatelobby.org/take-action/start-a-local-group/volunteer-opportunities-handout/

If this is the first time you’re on Zoom, let me know--raise your hand. Exit Out of Full Screen: in upper right

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“I believe that I can have a major impact on the fate of our planet if I work tirelessly, think big, and act fearlessly.”

“I believe that bold actions by a few brave people can change the course of history. I believe I am one of those people.

“Doing this will not be easy or comfortable, but it is definitely possible. And because it is possible, I must try. �I will not give up.”

Jay Butera’s “Why I Act On Climate” Statement

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“I am inspired and nourished by the volunteers who make up the heart and soul of this organization. You represent the best qualities of humanity and give me hope every single day. I will not stop working for climate solutions and I know you won't either.”

CCL Volunteer

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Sharing Time!

Click “Participants” & Raise Hand Or *9 If On The Phone

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https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics

Share online, with social media, and with your chapter, family and friends!

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Thank You!

Tamara Staton email: tamara.staton@citizensclimatelobby.org

CCL Community Forums: https://cclusa.org/forums

Core Volunteer Training: https://community.citizensclimate.org�/topics/core-volunteer-training

www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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“Citizens' Climate Lobby is not just a volunteer organization; it's a community. Meeting up with fellow CCL'ers hundreds of miles from home is like gathering with a thousand friends. Last weekend, no matter where I went, CCL volunteers greeted me warmly and were genuinely interested in what I had to say. I can say wholeheartedly that CCL is the best organization I have ever volunteered with. I love the training it offers, the positive attitude it promotes, the relationships it fosters, and its open-tent policy. Thanks, CCL, for giving me the tools I need to be an advocate for the future of humanity and for helping me form new friendships along the way! If you're looking for a way to make a genuine impact on the world and feel good about doing it, get involved with your local CCL chapter.”

-Cheryl Clark, CCL TX-Denton Group Leader

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“Citizens' Climate Lobby is focused on the climate because we care about the future of humanity, but to me, CCL is not just a volunteer organization; it's a community. Meeting up with fellow CCL'ers hundreds of miles from home is like gathering with a thousand friends. That may sound ridiculous, but it's true. Last weekend, no matter where I went, CCL volunteers greeted me warmly and were genuinely interested in what I had to say. I can say wholeheartedly that CCL is the best organization I have ever volunteered with. I love the training it offers, the positive attitude it promotes, the relationships it fosters, and its open-tent policy. Thanks, CCL, for giving me the tools I need to be an advocate for the future of humanity and for helping me form new friendships along the way! If you're looking for a way to make a genuine impact on the world and feel good about doing it, get involved with your local CCL chapter.”

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Our Values

Focus

Relationships

Optimism

Personal Power

Integrity

Nonpartisan

Diversity

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Connect to Glossary?

Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. These core values guide our staff and volunteers along the way: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/values/

Focus

We are focused on what we see as the single most impactful solution to climate change — a national carbon fee and dividend. We know it will not solve the problem entirely, and appreciate the work that our friends in other groups are doing. So that we can be effective, we do not let ourselves get distracted by work that does not support our core purpose. After we accomplish our goal, we will tackle the next most impactful solution.

Relationships

We take the most generous approach to other people as possible — appreciation, gratitude, and respect. We listen, we work to find common values, and we endeavor to understand our own biases. We are honest and firm. We know that there is a place for protest, but our approach is to build consensus — that’s what will bring enduring change. That’s why elected officials and their staff, no matter what their politics, say they are happy to see us — and mean it.

Being Nonpartisan

Our group is open to all who are serious about solving climate change. You are welcome no matter where you live, what you wear, what you do for a living, or who you voted for in the last election. We work with elected officials and community leaders from across the political spectrum because we believe that everyone is a potential ally.

Integrity

We are prepared and do our research. We are always on time for meetings. Our approach is thoughtful & thorough. We consult experts and use data. We are open to new information; in fact we solicit opposing opinions. We refine our solutions to make them better. We follow up when we are asked. We keep on.

Personal Power

We use our voices to be heard. This simple act transforms us from spectators to engaged citizens, and it reveals the true nature of democracy to us. We are volunteer-driven — trusting volunteers to make important decisions, and to create and develop things that will be valued by Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

Optimism

We believe that people are good, and that democracy works. We are confident that our approach will work because we see progress. We stand for a solution, not in protest of other solutions. We don’t expect perfection from ourselves or others; this is a process and we know that people can improve. Together, we are a community that offers one another comfort, support, and fun as we work.