Audience: Frontline Communities

Following our training “Recruitment and Retention: Building Your Base and Keeping Folks Around,” this tip sheet offers practical guidance on how to bring new people into your work and keep them engaged over time.

Join us for an hour as we dive into best practices of recruitment strategies and how to foster entry points for new people in your organization.

Join us for an hour as we dive into best practices of recruitment strategies and how to foster entry points for new people in your organization.

A campaign playbook: “How Richmond Made Polluters Pay” — documenting the Richmond coalition’s lessons learned and recommendations for other communities near extractive industries to build a ballot measure campaign. We hope that some of the lessons learned from our campaign will be helpful to other refinery communities.

This month, we’re bringing you a double feature that’s all about harnessing the power of storytelling to create change in today’s quickly changing landscape. Dive into updates from our panel session at RootsCamp 2025 and from our virtual training with SolarUnited and Generation 180.

In this training, we’ll walk through how to prepare for the unexpected. We’ll talk about how to build grassroots power and shift the narrative in big moments, while being respectful and collaborative.

Extreme weather events. Attacks on our democracy. Crises in our communities. We’re living and working in an increasingly chaotic environment, with more pressure to respond to crises and more channels to do so. In this training, we’ll walk through how to prepare for the unexpected.

Are you a health professional passionate about advancing climate advocacy and health equity? Join us for an information session on the Climate Advocacy Lab’s Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle.

The Climate Advocacy Lab seeks to provide a comprehensive archive of research and insights for the movement. By keeping our ear to the ground, receiving submissions from you all, and scouring over 69 academic journals, we have added 459 polls, case studies, social science papers and other resources published in 2024 to our Resource Library. To help you make sense of them all, we’ve highlighted some of the most notable trends and individual resources below. Read the whole roundup on our site, with additional sections covering the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy, public opinion, and perceptions of activism.

Effective storytelling is a critical tool in fighting back and advancing equitable, just solutions for a clean energy future. In this training, we’ll explore how to craft evidence-based stories that build support for clean energy initiatives made possible by federal investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).