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Welcome To CCL Training!

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Slides for reference: cclusa.org/cvt-chapter-development

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Chapter Development

Presentation Slides:�cclusa.org/cvt-chapter-development

Aug 20, 2024�

Welcome to Core Volunteer Training, a program of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby created to help our supporters, especially newer volunteers, to connect with one other and empower them to achieve their larger goals for climate advocacy. This week’s topic is Chapter Development Basics, and I am your host Elli Sparks, CCL’s Sr. Director of Field Operations. I am really glad you’ve joined us this evening, thank you for your interest and commitment.

If you haven’t yet, please do consider following us online - I’ll drop our social media links into the chat.

FB:
http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobby
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/
Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/citizensclimate/
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@citizensclimate?

And, if it’s helpful, feel free to follow along with our slides tonight:

cclusa.org/cvt-chapter-development

Share where you’re calling in from in the chat

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Housekeeping

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If interested and able, we’d love for you to…

Creating Community

Introduce yourself in the chat
Participate in interactive questions & polls
Turn your video on

Elli:

Creating Community

we are an online community right here on this call, and we hope to create that feeling through meaningful interaction and input.

We will do our best to create opportunities for you to be an active participant on this call, starting with an invitation to share where you’re calling in from in the chat.
It energizes me to hear from you, to see your face, to know what you want and what you care about. So if you’re interested and your circumstances allow it, we’ve love for you to participate in interactive questions and polls and turn your video on, if you’re up for it.
While it can feel draining to be on video, my favorite zoom trick is to hide my self view - it makes for a much more natural group experience than being distracted by my Zoom mirror, reminding me of my every move.

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About Our Speakers

Noel Morin

CCL HI Hawaii Island �Group Leader

Tamara Staton

CCL Education & Resilience Coordinator�

Bobbie Morgan

CCL WA Bainbridge Island Co-leader

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About Our Speakers

Noel Morin

CCL HI Hawaii Island �Group Leader

Daniela Brod

CCL OR State Coordinator

Bill Barron

CCL Network Director�

Bobbie Morgan

CCL WA Bainbridge Island Co-leader

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About Our Speakers

Bill Barron

CCL Network Director�

Elizabeth Lawrence

CCL Chapter Development Intern

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Three Learning Goals

Provide potential group leaders with an overarching understanding of what’s involved.

Engage attendees with a chance to reflect on their own leadership experiences.

Highlight the steps to starting, growing, and running a CCL chapter.

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Leadership Potential

Growing a Chapter

Q&A Discussion

Starting a Chapter

Running a Chapter

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Our Agenda

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Leadership Potential

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The Integral Role Of CCL Chapters

Organizational Design

By congressional district
Beneficial to diversify actions

The Value of Leadership

CCL’s strength is from its volunteers.
Starting chapters directly contributes to our shared goal for a livable world

One of the ways that Marshall Saunders, our beloved founder, envisioned the success of Citizens' Climate Lobby was through the creation of local chapters spanning across the U.S. Creating chapters in each district supports participation and communication from local constituents who can then directly influence and create political will for their own member of Congress or similar.

This map shows the spread of chapters throughout the United States. The live map can be viewed on chapter page of our CCL website. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/chapters/

In some areas, we have multiple chapters per district, of course, and this is beneficial in our ability to diversify our actions -- for individual chapters to focus more specifically on those issues and concerns that are specific to those volunteers and, naturally, these members of Congress see that there is appetite for climate action throughout more of their district.

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Starting A Chapter

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Seeking Support From Others

There’s no single “right way” to lead a CCL chapter
Your commitment, concern and passion are deep enough to support your success
Starting a chapter doesn’t have to be a solo endeavor

There's no right way to start a CCL Chapter. With 365 chapters in the US, there are multiple options for getting a chapter going. We believe in giving our leaders and groups the flexibility to meet local needs in the way that works best for them, with support for finding and training the people who step forward into leadership. Because CCL’s strategy and core values emphasize good relationships and local empowerment, we have left it to our volunteers in the field to determine the best way to lead their locals.

But that doesn’t mean you’re in it alone! there is a lot of guidance and support available to anyone thinking about or ready to take on starting a chapter. It can feel overwhelming, particularly as a new or newer volunteer. But just know that, between the support from others, and your deep commitment and willingness to learn, you have everything you need to dive in.

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Bobbie’s Reflections On Co-Leading

Leaders can divide up roles to fit their experience and interests
Others share by dividing up the year
Helpful to have others to share together in tasks and planning/facilitating meetings

I definitely felt overwhelmed when I first started thinking about the idea of starting a chapter. For me, my way through that was to partner with others. This helped me feel less intimidated as a new volunteer. Three of us started the journey toward group leadership and other leaders joined to run the chapter over the years.

Co-leadership offers a number of benefits over solo leadership. In some chapters, the leaders divide up the roles to fit their experience and interests. In other chapters, the leaders choose to time share the role, dividing up the year and taking full responsibility of the chapter for a particular number of months.

In one of our chapters in Washington, three leaders have chosen one approach to co-leadership that offers multiple benefits. In the following video, Bobbie Morgan, of Bainbridge Island, details their process and shares some of the highlights of this approach. Start video.

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Train the Trainers Program

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Emerging Group Leaders Group

The Emerging Group Leaders Program is another great opportunity to get support and build community with others who are interested in or working to start a chapter. During our weekly calls, that I currently run, we connect a bit with other leaders, and also spend time learning specific administrative skills that can be helpful to know as group leaders.

You can find the Emerging Group Leaders group on CCL Community where you can click "Join". On this page, you can also see the 3 basic trainings that CCL recommends for emerging group leaders. If you have any questions, or would like to speak with someone directly, feel free to email Elli@citizensclimate.org

Once you feel ready to move on from emerging group leader, you will work closely with your state coordinator on an ongoing basis to collaborate and get whatever support will help you need in moving forward with your new chapter.

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Onboarding Action Team

In addition to the Emerging Group Leaders program:

Onboarding Action Team
Email: egittelman@comcast.net

The Onboarding Action Team is available to assist you with your state's efforts to expand the numbers of chapters and grow the strength of your individual chapters. Their new schedule includes quarterly meetings on the fourth Tuesday of the month, at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT. Each meeting will feature a superstar guest speaker who will share onboarding best practices, outreach strategies, tips on engaging new volunteers and suggestions for retaining chapter members.

Check out the onboarding action team here:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/2754

Or contact Ellie Gittelman (egittelman@comcast.net) for more information.

Please encourage your chapter leaders and other volunteers to consider joining the Onboarding Action Team where group leaders and chapter "welcome team" members share best practices for engaging new volunteers.

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Local Coordinators & Volunteers

State Coordinators & Network Directors and Experienced Group Leaders Can Support You

There are a few other key connections that would be helpful for you to make.

State Coordinators are volunteers who have stepped forward into a leadership role at the state level to provide support and coordination among the CCL groups and volunteers in their state. They understand what is involved in starting, leading and maintaining a CCL chapter and can serve as an invaluable resource to potential group leaders as they embark on their leadership journey.

You can find your state coordinator on this page on CCL Community. https://community.citizensclimate.org/state-coordinators

Network Directors are staff members who support the State Coordinators and have the experience and insight needed to advise you on your leadership path.

The email address for your network directors:

Blue- bill.barron@citizensclimate.org

Purple- ricky@citizensclimate.org

Green- jon.clark@citizensclimate.org

Orange- elli@citizensclimate.org

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Daniela’s Story

Oregon State Coordinator, Daniela Brod
Talks about supporting one particular group leader in The Gorge

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Diving Into Action!

Learn about the basics of CCL, including the mission, the structure, our values, and the key tenets of carbon fee & dividend policy

Learn the basics

Who do you know that might be interested in being part of the chapter? Who might be interested in helping you lead various aspects?

Connect with others

You might choose to meet in person, online, or a hybrid combination of both to include as many people as possible.

Start meeting

Educate and Facilitate

Help your chapter volunteers learn about the basics of CCL and connect with those who are similarly concerned and interested.

Now that you're clear on the support that's available, it might be helpful to get a better sense of what's involved in actually starting a chapter. While the following points provide an overview of starting a chapter, it's important to remember that not all chapters are started in this way:

Learn about the basics of CCL, including the mission, the structure, our values, and the key tenets of the policy agenda we support.
Connect with others who are interested in being part of the chapter. This might be one other person at first or it might be 20. Some chapters have run as solo-endeavors for months before gathering a crowd.
Start meeting regularly. This may be online, in person or a hybrid combination of both. You might meet in someone's home or in a public location, like a library meeting room or a local brewery.
Provide initial training for your chapter volunteers.

Info Session
Climate Advocate Workshop.
Skill building trainings

Before we move on to Growing a Chapter, let me pause for questions and see if anyone has any thoughts or comments or questions about starting a chapter. Feel free to drop a question in the chat or raise your hand or your virtual hand.

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Q&A about Starting a Chapter

Click Reaction & Raise Hand or

Chat questions or �*9 If On The Phone

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Growing A Chapter

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CCL’s Two Part Mission

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Recruiting: The How

Be your authentic self
Share your story and person passion

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What draws you to CCL?

Think about and write down what it is about CCL that attracts you, lights you up, keeps you interested, feeds your passion...

Interactive Question: Take a minute to think about what attracted you to CCL and if you’re so inclined, go ahead and share these in the chat. Think of key words or phrases that you like about the organization, the work, the mission, the people, the goal, the approach...so here’s what I’m seeing in the chat (call out a few shares). Now, what I’d like to do is offer you 30 seconds of silence during which time you can write down in 1-2 sentences, on your own piece of paper, what attracts you to CCL. ��Once you have these sentences written down for yourself, whether you achieve that tonight or at a later time, I encourage you to practice it in front of the mirror, or sharing it with friends and family, so that it rolls off your tongue easily. This is how people will feel your passion

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Additional Points To Consider

You are selling an organization not a problem.

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Additional Points To Consider

The following points may be helpful to consider as you’re talking to people about CCL.

You are selling an organization, not a problem: Discuss what it is about CCL that makes you volunteer your precious time for us.
Focus more on solutions & possibilities: ...than on the threat of climate change.
Invite people TO something......either on the spot or soon thereafter, invite them to coffee, the intro call, your next meeting, or to come with you to something you are doing.
Keep it short (1-2 sentences).

“My name is Madeleine and I teach first grade, but lately what’s even more important to me is doing something about climate change so my students have a strong future. I spend a lot of my free time volunteering with Citizens’ Climate Lobby because it’s been such an effective organization to work with.”

Listen, validate, and avoid debate. It can be tempting to want to counter points that might be made or to try to convince someone of a particular something...but keep in mind that plants flourish when seeded, and tended over time. Patience plays a big role in success.

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The Value of Follow-Up

Key part of recruitment process
Follow up quickly with a call and an invite

Follow-up is such an important part of the recruitment process. But it often gets left out and overlooked. Meaningful conversations get people excited, but that energy fades and gets replaced by other things in their lives.

Following up immediately with a phone call, and an opportunity to participate, will severely up the chances of their participation because people will feel and recognize that their participation really makes a difference.

Do you like to feel like people want you there, and that it matters if you are? Does it help you to get this impression when they call to invite you personally?

Here’s an analogy that helps me to consider: what happens to most vegetable plants if you do nothing with it once you plant it? No sun, no water, no attention? Exactly. So, treat new volunteers like beautiful plants and flowering fruits: Plant the seed, let it root, and continue to add water, bright energy and attention.

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Recruitment Guidance

So where do we find new and potential volunteers? All over, actually!� Go where people concerned about climate change already are:

Potential contacts in your community

LTE & Op-Ed authors

Friends, Family, Coworkers

Community Organizations

Social Media

So, where do we find new and potential volunteers? All over, actually!

Go where the concerned people already are: public events, organizational meetings, church events.

Here are a few other possibilities as well.

Friends, family coworkers
Potential contacts in your community
LTE and Op Ed authors
Community orgs
Social media

CCL Community is also great place to learn and access additional resources and perspectives on growing your group. Check out the following trainings - through read, watch or listen tabs - to learn more. Additional resources can be found on the topic page for

Recruiting for your group:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/group-recruiting

Getting New Volunteers Engaged -

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/298

This training can help you Learn tips and suggested strategies for bringing new people aboard CCL so that they acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become empowered volunteers.

Growing Your Local Group --

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/146

This training provides Access information for how to find, recruit and talk about CCL to potential new supporters.

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Noel’s Recruiting Story

Noel becomes co-lead of Hawaii Island Chapter
Organizes with chapters across the state
Establish state-level presence with local leaders
Considers personal connections on Guam & reaches out to support their involvement

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Broadening Our Banner

Concerned Conservatives

Young Adults & Youth

Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)

It’s important to us that we involve and include everyone in CCL. Climate change doesn’t discriminate on the basis of anything, so we want to be sure to have as many constituent voices as possible asking for effective climate action. We have 3 distinct groups that we’d like to include more in the work that we do: Conservatives, youth, and black, indigenous and people of color.

Concerned conservatives are often looking for rational voices and sound policy that they can support. All members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby can help find and recruit them.
Youth are an ever-growing part of CCL and, as more and more youth under 18 become involved, our local and national youth action teams help to create a vibrant and powerful inter-connected youth network across the country. All youth under 18 may join and access CCL Community in the same way as adults, and the Youth Action Team facilitates this process.

BIPOC: Diversifying the climate movement and creating more inclusive spaces is an important priority for us at CCL, and is one of our seven core values. To learn more about these details, and get involved, see our page on CCL Community:

Diversity and Inclusion at CCL:,
https://community.citizensclimate.org/diversity-inclusion-at-ccl
CCL’s core values:
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/values/

Before we move on to Running a Chapter, let me pause again to see if anyone has any thoughts or comments or questions about growing a chapter. Feel free to drop a question in the chat or raise your hand or your virtual hand.

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According to Yale and George Mason University:-https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/politics-global-warming-december-2018/

52% of Republicans surveyed in 2018 thought global warming was happening
36% of those thought it was mostly caused by humans
40% of Republicans surveyed were either somewhat or very worried about global warming.

. One goal of our outreach is to find those concerned conservatives and encourage them to turn their concern into constructive action.

Clearly, diversifying the climate movement and CCL is important so that we can more closely reflect the societal make-up. But, there are multiple benefits of diversifying, as well.

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Q&A about Growing a Chapter

Click Reaction & Raise Hand or

Chat questions or �*9 If On The Phone

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Running A Chapter

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What’s Involved in Running A Chapter?

Set a regular meeting time
Plan meeting agendas and communicate to volunteers
Collaborate with local organizations and leaders to build effective partnerships
Send out meeting reminders & make calls to invite
Facilitate monthly meetings
Welcome new members through email and phone calls
Create structures for communication and data organization
Respond to emails /phone calls from volunteers
Support volunteers in their shared tasks and roles

As with other aspects of leadership, the way a chapter is run depends in large part upon the group leader/s, the type of group they have, and in what stage of development the group is in. Group Leaders (GLs)with larger, more established chapters, for example, will serve somewhat of a different role than those GLs with smaller chapters who are just getting started. But the following checklist provides an overview of what's involved in running and maintaining an active CCL chapter:

(for more details on running a chapter, see this training topic page on CCL Community:

Starting A New CCL Chapter - CCL Community

https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/starting-new-chapter

The first thing you want to do is Set up a regular meeting time. IT can take a bit for people’s schedules to align and clear space for this on their calendars but this is one of the keys to a thriving chapter.
Then, you’ll want to plan your meeting agenda for the upcoming meeting and communicate this to volunteers. Some chapters find that it can be helpful to have a regular agenda framework and to plug in the different details and content each month.
For some chapters, it can work well to collaborate with local organizations and leaders to build effective partnerships - especially with our new policy agenda in CCL. this might look like inviting speakers to your meetings. But do keep in mind that National has a guest speaker every month, so there’s no requirement to set up speakers on a monthly basis.
Another key to a thriving chapter is Sending out meeting reminders & making calls or sending text message to invite people. Add sentence or two about calling.
Clearly, there’s a need to facilitate the actual monthly meetings. But in addition to this, it can be helpful to consider who you might want to facilitate. While it may seem obvious that the group leader would do that, sometimes there is someone who is better equipped or more experienced with facilitation than the group leader themselves...this is a great role for a chapter volunteer to take on.
Clearly, it can be helpful to create a Welcoming atmosphere for new members. That can naturally happen through email, but most effective is call them in advance of each meeting to invite them, and follow up with them after the meeting to see how it went.
It’s important to Create structures for communication and data organization - without this, it’s very difficult to keep track of who is who and where to find them. It can also be super helpful to create a structure to help you remember who came when, or what lights people up
When you Respond to emails /phone calls from volunteers, people feel seen and appreciated, and these are the types of experiences that will keep people coming back month after month, year after year.
And similarly, Supporting volunteers in their shared tasks and roles will also give people the experience of belonging and valuation. And this part of what most people want out of their volunteer experience...in addition to feeling like they are part of something that is creating positive change.

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Lots of Opportunities to Collaborate

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Finding Support that Supports Your Style

Planning & Facilitation Guidance on CCL Community

Meeting Planning & Facilitation
Getting Help With The Work
Creating Highly Motivated Teams

This, again, is an area where we encourage group leaders to bring their ideas, their perspectives and their individual style to the table. One of the beautiful things about CCL is the distinct variety that exists between chapters. Some are large, while others are small. Some are rural, while others are urban. Some meet twice a month, while many meet once.

There is a great deal of guidance and support once you get to the point where you’re ready to start meeting regularly. In regards to planning your meeting, it can be helpful to use the monthly action sheet, which provides both guidance for you, as group leader, as well as action opportunities and meeting activities for your members during and after the meeting. Using the action sheet not only helps guide you as group leader, but it can support your volunteers in feeling like they're part of the larger organization - a helpful concept when working on an immense issue like climate change.

Monthly Action Sheet,

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/397

We also have a number of other related resources and trainings on ccl community tailored to this topic which we’ll drop in the chat right now:

Group Development & Organizing resources

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources

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Providing Support To Volunteers

Being supported matters.

Inspiring Action
Keeping Volunteers Engaged
Joy & Culture Building

Being supported matters.

Think about a time in your life, CCL or otherwise, when you felt supported by others. What did the support do for you? How did it make you feel? Share a few feelings in the chat right now, if you’re up for it.

We have the opportunity to inspire and motivate others through the leadership that we offer to our chapter. People will look to us for support, they will want to know if this organization offers them what they need and want from their climate contribution, and when we’re able to support them in the way they need, they will stick around and contribute to effective climate action.

Support naturally looks different for everyone - both for you in how you offer it, and for the volunteers in how they seek and benefit from it. Generally, the level of support that is most impactful for most people is direct one on one support, whether through a phone call, text, an individual email, or a face to face conversation at an in person meeting or event..

Skip the details of the following as needed:-----------------------------

The following trainings on CCL Community can help deepen your ability and widen your perspective on providing support for the volunteers in your chapter:

Potentially Add to the chat if short on time:

Being Supportive and Inspiring Action

This training provides support, perspective and ideas for CCL leaders responding to coaching situations in a manner that embodies our values of relationships, personal power, integrity and optimism. It also provides advice on what to consider before, during and after having these conversations.

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/176

Keeping Volunteers Engaged

In this training, you’ll find suggestions for keeping volunteers coming back for more, including how to keep attendance up at meetings, how to keep people informed and how to delegate and keep people constantly involved.

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/150

Joy, Culture, & Community Building With Your Chapter

This training highlights how local groups can incorporate more fun, volunteer support, culture and community building into their group meetings and local activities with examples of what's worked for CCL chapters around the country.

https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/422

Next on Group Administration

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Group Administration

As you can imagine, administration is a part of any well-run group, particularly one that is so focused on creating opportunities for action for their volunteers. Volunteers want to understand what to expect, and in order for that to happen, they need to be communicated with through emails, texts and phone calls. Naturally, you need email addresses and phone numbers to make that happen, and a way to organize and access them when you’re ready to communicate.

We have a variety of systems and structures in place to support both our volunteers and our leaders. Many of these resources can be found on CCL Community on our Managing Volunteer Data topic page:

Add to chat:

Group Administration topic page:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/group-administration

Outside of utilizing the strengths of what your chapter page on CCL Community provides, some groups choose to use additional tools like Google or Yahoo Groups, or newsletter programs, like Mailchimp. These structures take some effort to learn and maintain, but this is all part of administration of the chapter. Most important is that you find what works for you and your chapter.

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CCL Community Resources

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CCL Community Resources

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CCL Community Resources

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Riding The Highs & Lows

people come
People take action
Vols. return
You’re In the groove
You’re doing what you love

In over your head
it’s all up to you
You feel confused
You feel overwhelmed
Take it personally
Focus on inaction

It’s Amazing �When...

It’s Challenging �When...

Lean on CCL Resources

Each group leader is going to have things that are awesome and things that are challenging in the process of group leading - no task comes without those natural highs and lows. And naturally, those highs and lows will differ from to leader to leader.

But there are some things that tend to transcend difference. For example,

It’s safe to say that it is AWESOME when...

people show up to your meeting
People are taking action and seem inspired to take more
When people keep coming back. In the Portland chapter, there is a core of people who have been there since the beginning, and many more who have years of experience under their belt.
you feel like you’re in the groove
you’re doing the tasks that you love to do, and that you feel capable of doing, but also when you're taking on some tasks that stretch you in a way that supports your growth.

Many group leaders express that it’s challenging when...

they feel in over their heads
they feel it's all up to them
when they feel confused about why people aren't coming to meetings
when they feel overwhelmed or confused by some aspects of group leading
they take it personally that people aren't coming to meetings (potentially share my experience here and ask if anyone else has ever felt this)
when they focus on what isn't being done instead of on what IS being done

Things will get challenging at times and having resources to ease those challenges will help you be one of those who keeps at it, month after month, year after year.

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Key Takeaways

Growing A Chapter�Be yourself, start with whom you know, keep in mind where you want to grow.

Running A Chapter�Leading involves multiple skill sets -- helpful to have a co-leader. Explore CCL’s resources.

Starting A Chapter�Find what’s best for you and we can provide the support you need.

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Q&A Discussion

Click Reaction & Raise Hand or

Chat questions or �*9 If On The Phone

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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…

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/group-organizing-and-mentoring/chapter-development

Climate Advocacy Summer program 2024:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/3014

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Log Your Training

At the End of each Training

Through the Action Tracker:

Traditional Trainings:

Interactive Trainings:

Log Your Training: We encourage you to log your training in CCL’s Action tracker, along with any other actions you take that build the political will for climate action. Doing so not only helps you, your chapter and state and regional leaders track progress and inspire action, but also helps us attract potential supporters and donors for the organization.

Three options:

simplest one is to click on the link that I’ll put in the chat right now that will automagically log this training for you -it’s the same one that exists at the end of the online training.
https://community.citizensclimate.org/log_training?sf_id=a5y8X0000005xYUQAY

Also, At the end of each training, In the traditional trainings, you’ll see a big green button.

Click to animate:

You can also go Through the Action Tracker: click to advance two animations…

Click to animate:

https://community.citizensclimate.org/actions/create

When you click that, you may notice a new feature which allows you to rate the training. We’re eager to hear your feedback, thanks for taking the time to offer it to us.

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Thank You!

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

Tamara Staton: � tamara.staton@citizensclimatelobby.org

www.citizensclimatelobby.org

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To solve

climate change:

We need a great brand

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Local Coordinators & Volunteers

Reach out to �State & Regional Coordinators �&�Experienced Group Leaders �for support

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Levers of Political Will

Media �Relations

Lobbying �Congress

Grasstops Engagement

Grassroots Outreach

Group Development & Organizing

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Chapter Teams

Lobby Team

Lobbies Members of Congress

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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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Chapter Teams

Lobby Team

Lobbies Members of Congress

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This is a Chart

We are:	And we show it by being:
Focused on a big solution	Consistent. We regularly reinforce our main messages in order to build support and understanding for our Carbon Fee and Dividend policy.
Relationship-�driven	Thoughtful. We consider other viewpoints, listen, and work together.
Nonpartisan	Approachable. We are optimistic, friendly and easy to talk to.
Effective	Polished. We’re prepared, persistent, and polite.

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This is Another Chart

Top Issues	CSC	Dividend	Agriculture	Jobs	Endorsers	Local Impacts
R’s	104	80	41	42	30	25
D’s	156	58	31	29	31	36
Total	260	138	72	71	61	61

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ICONS

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Additional Photos

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Title Here

-Type your subtitle here-

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Heading

Subtext if needed

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Our Agenda

Write your course objectives clearly.

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Write objectives in behavioral terms.

3

Use action verbs in your objectives.

4

Tell learners what skills they’ll gain.

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Title Layout

Place your subtitle here

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Agenda

Explanation

Item 01

Item 02

Item 03

Item 04

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Title

Objective 01

An objectives slide helps set the stage for learning.

Objective 03

Describe the skills learners will gain in the course.

Objective 02

Write course objectives in clear, concise language.

Objective 04

Avoid vague words like “understand.”

Objective 05

Instead, use clear and specific action verbs.

Objective 06

Examples: sort, describe, identify, and demonstrate.

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Title

Section slides can be especially useful in a long course. They provide a visual cue that the content is about to change to a new topic or focus.

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Title

You can quickly change out the images in this template by deleting an image and then clicking on the image placeholder icon to browse your machine for a replacement image.

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Graphic Metaphor

A graphic metaphor is a great way to bring clarity to concepts, facts, or data. You could use a layout like this one to represent a progression of events or a series of tasks.

This is a good place for descriptive text.

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Title

This is the area to place your text content. It might describe the image below, or vice versa.

Or, you could have an image fill one half of the slide, and then have a block of text on the other.

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2

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Title

This is the subtitle text. This is a great location to provide an overview or an introduction to the topic of the slide. The bulleted sections provide an area to place your text content.

This is the area to place your text content for the learner.

Insert Title 01

This is the area to place your text content for the learner.

Insert Title 02

This is the area to place your text content for the learner.

Insert Title 03

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02

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Contact Layout

Finishing off your course with a contact slide can provide learners with an avenue to answer any further questions that they might have. Consider sharing the information listed below.

Your Company Name Ltd

34 Loop Lane

New York , NY 123456

Tel: +123 456 7890

Fax: +123 456 7890

Email: info@company.com

Mr. John Jones

District Manager

Your Company Name

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Title

This particular layout works great if you have a large amount of text that you wish to provide for the learner. We would suggest that you don’t simply narrate the text that is on the screen. If you read large blocks of text such as this, you will pretty quickly lose the attention of the learner.

Title 01

Of course, you’re not limited to using text in this particular layout. Perhaps the locations of these two blocks of text could be filled with images instead? You could put two small images on the bottom of the screen, and then use the titles and a couple of sentences of text to describe the images.

Title 02

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Grid Layout

The grid layout can be used for a variety of slide types. For example, the four sections below could be utilized to share information about individuals in your company or as a menu slide with visual representations of the course topics.

This is the area to place your text content.

Title 01

Title 03

This is the area to place your text content.

Title 02

This is the area to place your text content.

Title 04

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Title

You could use this space as a summary or an introduction to the images shown at right.

This space could be used for some descriptive text.

Title 01

Insert additional descriptive text here.

Title 02

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70-30�Layout

You can easily adapt this slide for a number of different slide types, such as a menu or objectives slide. A clean, clutter-free visual design is a key component of an effective course. An organized layout helps learners take in the content more easily.

Subtitle

Summarize the second item in this space.

Title 02

Summarize the third item in this space.

Title 03

Summarize the first item in this space.

Title 01

Summarize the fourth item in this space.

Title 04

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Grid Layout

The grid layout can be used for a variety of different slide types.

Title 01

To change the look, try replacing two of the grids with pictures.

Title 04

Perhaps you could use this layout for a menu or objectives.

Title 02

This layout works great for chunking large amounts of text.

Title 05

Or, use this layout to introduce staff members in a company.

Title 03

Simple variations can create a custom look and feel.

Title 06

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Three Column Layout

Summarize the first item here.

Summarize the third item here.

Summarize the second item here.

Title 02

Summarize the fourth item here.

Title 04

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2

4

Title 01

Title 03

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Labels Layout

*insert photos here*

For a more dynamic feel, you could add animations.

Labels might simply provide contextual information.

Perhaps the labels could describe dos �and don’ts.

Labels can truly bring content to life for learners.

Title 01

Title 02

Labels are a great way to organize information. You could use each labeled item to make a statement or describe a step in a process.

Title 03

Title 04

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Graphic Metaphor

This is an area to place text that compels learners to pay close attention.

Title 01

This is an area to place text that compels learners to pay close attention.

Title 03

This is an area to place text that compels learners to pay close attention.

Title 02

This is an area to place text that compels learners to pay close attention.

Title 04

Sign 1

Sign 2

Sign 3

Sign 4

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Timeline Layout

2019

January

2020

February

2021

September

2022

August

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Contact Layout

A contact slide can provide learners with an avenue to ask questions or seek additional information.

24 Company Rd.

New York, NY 12345

+1.876.123.4567

Facebook.com/company