Northwest Indiana has long been one of the most industrialized corridors in the country. The cities of East Chicago, Hammond, and Whiting, situated on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, are dominated by oil refineries, steel mills, and chemical plants. The BP Whiting Refinery, one of the largest in the U.S., anchors the area—bringing jobs, but also frequent accidents, flaring events, and generations of toxic pollution. These communities are known as “sacrifice zones”—bearing disproportionate burdens of fossil fuel pollution and health risks. Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, with carbon emissions captured and stored underground instead of being released. It requires pipelines to transport both the hydrogen to users and the captured carbon dioxide to storage sites. JTNWI recognized the urgent need for door-to-door education and organizing to counter corporate narratives and ensure residents’ voices were heard. Launched in June 2023, the canvass aimed to educate residents, capture community concerns, and build local leadership around the MachH2 project.

This guide is designed to help organizations bring a consumer-centered lens to energy policy debates, and to show how utility regulation, affordability programs, and climate justice intersect with state budgets and economic health. By using this guide, you can frame energy affordability not just as an environmental or technical issue, but as a core economic justice concern, one that directly impacts household stability, community resilience, and long-term, your state’s prosperity.

A shared crowdsourced resource for stopping data centers, to support community members and organizers to launch a data center site fight, or join ongoing efforts.

Video, Katrina20, is a twenty year look back on Hurricane Katrina and how communities continue to support each other against climate disasters.

Role model narratives—stories about specific people taking recommended actions—are a proven communication strategy for encouraging socially beneficial behaviors such as climate action. However, the extent to which climate activists share role model narratives on social media has yet to be investigated. To measure the prevalence of climate action role model narratives on social media, Instagram and TikTok posts tagged with the hashtags #climateaction and #climateactivist (dated between August 2021 and October 2024) were collected and a content analysis of the over 600 posts was conducted.

Explore how communities can take care of each other’s needs equitably during a changing climate future.

This tipsheet gives a definition of mutual aid, shares examples of mutual aid for the climate crisis, and shares resources for finding your own local mutual aid networks.

This survey of nonprofit professionals in the social and educational sectors is a partnership of Stanford University and Project Evident.

Tapp Network and TechSoup conducted this survey in 2024, gathering responses from 1321 nonprofit professionals about their use of and attitudes toward AI. This survey captures nonprofits' readiness to adopt AI, focusing on capacity building and mission delivery. As many nonprofits look to transition from exploratory phases to actionable strategies, the report provides benchmarks, recommendations, and practical insights to support organizations of all sizes. With AI positioned as a transformative tool, this report aims to instruct and inspire new solutions for the nonprofit sector.

This is a collection of slides from a presentation about how to write LLM prompts. It’s not specific to non-profits or advocacy work, but it’s a very helpful guide.