Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Media Basics [Core Volunteer Training]

Join CCL's State and Local Media Coordinator Charlotte Ward for a training that will be focused on how you can best utilize CCL's amazing suite of media resources to amplify the importance of including an ambitious price on carbon in the emerging reconciliation process, including customizing and submitting one of CCL’s op-ed templates, asking an editor for an editorial, writing more local letters to the editor and amplifying your media work on social media.

To skip ahead to a specific section go to the time indicated in parenthesis.

• (0:00) Intro & Agenda
• (2:45) Why is media work important?
• (3:30) Messaging for our media work
• (6:28) Signing up for media manager alerts
• (10:01) Finding stories to respond to locally
• (17:02)  Boosting availability with an op-eds
• (19:55) What's your climate story?
• (26:30) Compiling your media list
• (31:04) Action Time! Write a LTE!

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/media-basics-slides 
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/media-relations/media-basics 

CCL Training: In-District Lobbying Plans

Join CCL Southeast Regional Director Don Addu for a training that walks through the process of planning and setting up a successful meeting with your member of Congress back home in your community. Meeting in the local district of a member of Congress is an essential element to building connections with Congress as it increases the likelihood of a face-to-face meeting while allowing more CCL volunteers and local people of influence to participate in lobbying.

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Why In-District? (3:06)
Getting Started (7:25)
Planning Your Meeting (10:27)
Additional Resources (16:42)
Stories From the Field (17:44)
Local Climate Impacts Field Trip (25:40)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/in-district-ccu

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/267

CCL Training: Generating Editorial Endorsements

Join Flannery Winchester and Steve Valk, CCL's Communications team, for a training that will detail how you and/or your group can prepare for, structure and facilitate an editorial board meeting. Meeting with and developing a relationship with a newspaper’s editorial board is one of the most highly leveraged things volunteers can do to generate political will for the Energy Innovation Act.

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Role of the editorial board (1:52)
Examples of editorials (5:12)
Ways to engage your newspaper's editorial board (10:42)
Preparing for the meeting (16:43)
Closing the meeting (24:18)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/meeting-editorial-boards

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/114

CCL Training: Starting A Monthly Calling Campaign

Join CCL leaders from Texas, Ben Boral and Ham Richards, for a training that will walk you through how to utilize a new tool their team has created to help generate calls across your district for your member of Congress to create a steady presence of political will for a livable world and support for the Energy Innovation Act.

Monthly Calling Campaign: http://cclusa.org/mcc

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
Background (3:38)
How to make a call (6:37)
Running a Calling Campaign (14:31)
Success Stories from the field (27:26)
Getting Support Ahead (35:04)

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/390
Presentation slides: http://cclusa.org/calling-campaign

CCL Training: Outreach To Faith Communities

This training focuses on how to begin reaching out to your national faith headquarters, potential allies, and local places of worship, given that many voices within the faith community have been making a moral case for action on climate change.

Featuring the stories of Bill Bray (CCL Presbyterian Action Team & TX Woodlands Leader), Andy Panelli (CCL IL Chicago South Suburbs Group Leader), Nadine Sapirman & Ann Perry (CCL Unitarian Universalist Action Team Co-Leads) and Judy Berlfein & Dadla Ponizil (CCL Jewish Action Team and CCL CA San Diego North Co-Leads)

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Overview of Faith Outreach (2:19)
Presbyterian Faith Outreach (6:45)
Catholic Faith Outreach (15:49)
Unitarian Faith Outreach (22:27)
Jewish Faith Outreach (31:45)
Where to Find Faith Action Teams (40:04)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/faith-outreach

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/337

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CCL Training: Hosting A CCL House Party

Join CCL Leaders Bill Barron, Sarah Karush, and Julia Selker for a training that will walk you through how local groups have hosted house parties, open homes, or climate action salons in their own homes to help generate engagement in their local communities for Citizens' Climate Lobby and the Energy Innovation Act.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
Community Climate Party (VA) (4:40)
Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Action Party (UT) (13:53)
Climate Action Open House (DC) (25:00)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/house-party
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CCL Training: Columbia University's Assessment of the Energy Innovation Act

Join Dr. Noah Kaufman, Research Scholar at Columbia University, and Jerry Hinkle, CCL Research Coordinator, for a live webinar discussing the recently released Columbia University's "Assessment of the Energy Innovation Act." This study offers an up-to-date, independent assessment from a prestigious institution of the Energy Innovation Act’s impacts on emissions, air pollution, and Americans’ finances. It confirms that the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act is effective at reducing emissions and is good for people.

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Emissions Impacts (8:13) 
Energy Production & Prices Impacts (15:04)
Government Revenues (20:01)
Impacts Beyond The Assessment's Scope (24:29) 
​​​​​​​Comparison To Other Proposals (27:39)

Columbia Website: energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/assessment-energy-innovation-and-carbon-dividend-act
CCL Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/184
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CCL Training: Using Resources For the Future's Carbon Pricing Calculator

Join Marc Hafstead, Fellow and Director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative at Resource For the Future, and CCL Research Coordinator Jerry Hinkle for a training that reviews the main findings from the recent carbon pricing economic and energy model used by Resources for the Future and their own calculator used to evaluate current carbon pricing bills in Congress including the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act.

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RFF and Calculator Background (2:30)
Using the Calculator (10:51)
Greenhouse Emission Reductions Comparisons (15:40)
Comparing Distribution of Impacts (21:15)
GDP Considerations (25:20)

RFF Carbon Pricing Calculator: https://www.rff.org/cpc
Training Page on Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/430
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CCL Lobby Training 401: Leading A Lobby Team

Interested in learning more about what it takes and key details to remember when leading a virtual lobby meeting with a member of Congress or staff? 

Join CCL Northeast Regional Coordinator Iona Lutey  for a training that will review the role of a lobby team leader, how they assign team roles, coordinate practice times and how to handle other special situations.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
The Importance of Leads (4:21)
Advance Planning (8:35)
Pre-Lobby Meeting Suggestions (19:28) 
Expressing Leadership (27:48)
Meeting Debrief & Filing Minutes (39:35)

Additional Resources: 
Presentation slides: http://cclusa.org/lobbylead 
Training on CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/working-with-congress/lobbying-401 

CCL Training: Using the Personal Carbon Dividend Calculator

Recent updates to the Personal Carbon Dividend Calculator help make it even an easier--to-use online tool to estimate the financial outcome of the policy for an individual household under the first-year carbon dioxide fee of $15 per metric ton. It's a way to take the abstract statistical findings of the Household Impact Study down to the personal level.

Join Rick Knight, CCE's Research Coordinator and Bryan Hermsen, CCL's IT Administrator and Applications Developer as they walk through the updates for this CCL-created powerful tool for all CCL volunteers.

Calculator Link:https://energyinnovationact.org/carbon-dividend-calculator/

This tool is a handy way to answer questions from friends, family, interested parties at a tabling event or presentation, or potential supporters who need a clearer idea of how carbon fee and dividend policies work. It can be used to create case studies for households in a particular Congressional District or town and can also be used to find out how certain lifestyle change will affect your bottom line under our policy.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
What is the Calculator? (2:20)
What's been updated? (5:39)
Where can I access it? (8:43)
Calculator Case Studies (10:42)
What about negative results & how do I use it? (19:14)

Presentation slides: http://cclusa.org/calculator-training
Training Page on Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/133
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