Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: Preparing For Media Interviews

Join CCL's Communications Director Flannery Winchester for a training that builds volunteers’ interview skills, particularly for radio and television. Learn how to prepare for and respond to interview questions, keep the interview on track, and get your message across in the media.

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Pre-interview prep (1:59)
Preparing your message (6:05)
Practicing: Bad, better, best (11:20)
CCL’s recommended talking points (17:11)
Pivoting (28:08)
Presentation tips (37:15)

Helpful resources:
Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/preparing-for-interviews
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/110

CCL Training: Talking Climate Change with NNOCCI

This training will boost your skills in proven communications techniques that shift the national conversation about climate change to be more positive, civic-minded and solutions-focused through providing an overview of the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation's recommendations for identifying common values, metaphors, and solution-framing.

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What is NNOCCI? (3:14)
NNOCCI Resources Available (11:40)
What Americans Think About Climate Change (13:37)
The Core Story of Climate Change (21:35)
What Does This Look Like In Conversation? (31:48)
Summary & Next Steps (44:15)

Presentation PDF: https://cclusa.org/talking-climate-change-training

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/451

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CCL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobby

CCL Training: Self-Care For Stress Reduction

The overwhelming unknown of a global pandemic, impacting our families, our futures, and for many of us, our own well-being is quite the recipe for chaos, both inside and out. Add to this the underlying stress of climate change and everyday life management and our well-being as climate advocates can teeter on the edge. This training features CCL Pacific Northwest Regional Coordinator and Education & Engagement Assistant Tamara Staton and CCL's Peer Support Action Team Co-leads Laura Sacks and Jeff Joslin to support us in attending to our inner advocate - the one who so clearly wants change, ease and calm, but may at times struggle to find it.

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Consider The Context (4:28)
Know Yourself & Accept Your Needs (5:57)
Lean On Your Resources (10:04)
The Importance Of Play (18:14)
Climate Anxiety Event (27:36)
CCL Peer Support Action Team (30:32)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/self-care-stress-reduction

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

CCL Training: Communicating With Progressives

Join CCL Texas State Coordinator and Progressive Outreach Action Team leader Bob Hendricks and LA State Coordinator Nicole Hammond for a training on communicating with progressives regarding putting a price on pollution. We'll facilitate a review of what CCL's ongoing plan for outreach to non-profit organizations is at the national and local level, and recommendations to talk about carbon fee and dividend with progressive groups.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:30) Who Are Progressives? 
(7:03) Talking to Progressive Individuals
(13:28) Climate Justice and Environmental Justice
(18:37) Talking about CCL's Policy Agenda
(28:45) Conclusions

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/progressive-communications 

CCL Community Training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/communicating-across-the-aisle/communicating-with-progressives 

CCL Training: Generating Media Coverage

Join CCL's Communications Director Flannery Winchester for a training that explores news coverage in the media - articles, press, and media awareness which mentions our organization and CCL's work earned outside of paid advertising. Flannery reviews strategies for generating news coverage with your local chapter and the support of CCL's national communications team.

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Writing Media in the COVID Era (2:45)
What is news coverage? Why now? (7:16)
How to alert media to your story (12:12)
Develop your local media list (16:18)
Pitching and next steps (30:52)

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/generating-media-coverage

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/293

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

CCL Training: How To Host Online Zoom Meetings

Join CCL's Field Development Director Elli Sparks & Volunteer Education Coordinator Brett Cease for a training that walks through the process of setting up and hosting an online group meeting on Zoom. For those interested in minimizing public meetings, hosting online meetings offer a safe alternative to meeting in person and this training walks through the considerations to get you started.

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Setting Up For Success (3:10)
Practicing With Zoom (14:36)
+Audio Controls (18:30)
+Video Controls (22:24)
+Renaming Users (23:18)
+Monitoring Chat (24:24)
+Claiming Host Key (26:45)
+Sharing Screen (28:24)
+Breakout Rooms (31:06)
+Ending The Meeting (34:37)
+Additional Controls (35:20)
Where To Go For Technical Support (40:45)
Suggestions For Engagement (44:05)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/hosting-zoom-meetings

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/347

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CCL Training: Campaign Season Activities

Join CCL Government Affairs Coordinator Adeline DeYoung and Southeast Director Don Addu for a training that walks through how we as nonpartisan organization have the opportunity to connect with individual candidates from both sides of the aisle on the issue of climate change during this season of electoral primary campaigns. While being clear that we do not support or organize for individual candidates or political parties, our volunteer network still plays the essential role of providing insight to all candidates as to why our policy would be best for their constituents.

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Background (2:56)
Working With Incumbents (5:08)
House & Senate Guidelines (8:59)
Staying Nonpartisan & Bipartisan (12:42)
Activities To Avoid (16:08)

Campaign Season Activities Training on CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/265

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/campaign-season-slides

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CCL Training: Updates From Around The World

Join CCL International Outreach Manager Cathy Orlando and CCL European Regional Coordinator James Collis for a training that highlights what is going on around the world in 2020 with ​CCL’s​ network, what other countries are doing in terms of carbon pricing and citizen engagement, and how CCL is engaging in international civil society meetings.

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Intro & Agenda (from beginning)
Global Maps & Resource (5:09)
CCL Reports From Around the World (12:57)
CCL Europe Update (25:49)
How CCL International Helps Your Work (36:50)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/around-the-world

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/157

 

CCL Training: Managing Money In Your Group

With outreach events and our annual conference coming up, many chapters may be in need of support in figuring out how to manage their local funds. Join CCL Group Leader Jean Ritok for a training that walks through various ways to raise and manage money in your group for things like chapter activities and conference scholarships.

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General Overview & Important Considerations (2:06)
Setting Up A Bank Account (11:30)
Nuts & Bolts Of Local Money Management (17:45)
Email Templates (25:50)
Workbook Walkthrough (34:24)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/managing-money-training

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/139

Finance Workbook (Make A Copy Of): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ueVC9uteXuNxJPm0iEDepXaKsRKB_ECCJHtIOcaeXHc/

Economics of Carbon Fee & Dividend Policies [Core Volunteer Training]

Join Economist and CCL volunteer Dr. Paul Bernstein for a webinar reviewing the beginning basics behind why a price on carbon is one of the single most powerful tools available to reduce America’s carbon pollution. This training will also detail new ways of thinking about the key components of the three key dimensions behind any carbon fee and dividend policy.

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• (0:00) Introduction & Agenda
• (5:04) Economics Background
• (10:02) Why The Carbon (Pollution) Fee?
• (19:38) What About The Dividend? (or Carbon Cash Back?)
• (25:18) Why A U.S. Border Carbon Adjustment?
• (33:30) Current Political Environment

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/economics-cvt 

CCL Community Training Page:  https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/carbon-fee-and-dividend/economics-of-carbon-fee-and-dividend  

Why Price Carbon? https://citizensclimatelobby.org/price-on-carbon/