CCL Community 2023: Year In Review

By Brett Cease, CCL Vice President of Programs

To begin, let's share in a collective thank you to each and every CCL volunteer's hard work and dedication for making our past year of advocacy the high impact and grassroots-driven huge success that it was! As we transition to the year ahead, here's a window back to the busiest places and most popular pages on CCL Community throughout 2023. This past year, as CCL expanded its policy focus and ramped up our national Climate Action Program, you'll note many of the actions corresponded with these areas of focus. With over 1.67 million total page views throughout 2023 on CCL Community it continues to be a busy volunteer portal for all of us so let's look at where all the traffic this year was going.

Note: for a full review of the many features and updates made throughout CCL Community see our CCL Community Release Notes. On our Stats page, you’ll find the number of conference attendees and lobby meetings for each conference event, followed by the number of CCL Supporters per state and district. For all other national CCL action statistics, please visit CCL’s Action Tracker.

High Impact Goal Collective Actions

• 15,998 Permitting Reform Messages to Congress in June
• 14,666 Contacts to Reps - PROVE IT Act in July
• 12,339 Contacts to Reps - Increased TSP Access Act in August
• 2,928 Calls to Congress - BIG WIRES Act
• 873 Outreach Events in April

Most Visited Training Pages:

• Preparing For CCL 2023 Conference and Lobby Days
• Reviewing Primary & Secondary Asks
• Tabling At An Event
• Comparing Permitting Reform Proposals Across the Political Spectrum
• Scheduling A Meeting With Congress
• What is the CCL Climate Action Program?
• An Introduction To Clean Energy Permitting Reform
• How To Write Effective Letters to the Editor
• Advanced Training On Clean Energy Permitting Reform
• Home Electrification and Efficiency Opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act

Most Popular Topics:

• Core Volunteer Training
• Preparing For Lobby Day
• Getting Started Volunteers
• Clean Energy Permitting Reform
• CCL's Policy Agenda 

Top Dozen Most Visited Resources (bookmark any for quick reference):

• Monthly Action Sheets
• Primary Ask (Leave Behind)
• Secondary Asks
• Conference Presentations & Videos
• Op-Ed Templates
• LTE Topics
• Meeting Plan Template
• About CCL (Who We Are) Handouts
• Climate Anxiety Booth Tabling Activity
• Yale Six Americas Activity
• Building Electrification Handouts

Most Popular Sitewide Forum Conversations:

• Introduce Yourself!
• Permitting Reform in the Debt Ceiling Deal
• A huge endorsement of carbon pricing
• IRA Benefits Handout!
• Op-Ed in Chicago Tribune from CCL Colorado volunteer Susan Atkinson

Top Five Most Well Attended Webinars:

• Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act Updates
• June 2023 Lobby Training #2: Legislative Plan
• June 2023 Lobby Training #1: Primary & Supporting Asks
• Fall 2023 Lobby Training #1: Primary & Supporting Asks 
• Home Electrification and Efficiency Opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act

• The Energy Innovation Act Is Back! Join CCL's All Supporter Call This Thursday
• February 2023 Monthly Actions & Meeting W/ Doria Brown, Social Media Influencer
• October 2023 Monthly Actions & Meeting W/ Ben Pendergrass, CCL VP Gov't Affairs
• March 2023 Monthly Actions & Meeting W/ Mitch Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network
• I'm Retiring And Thank You For Everything CCL ❤️

Top Ten Most Visited Action Teams:

• Higher Education
• Nerd Corner
• Climate Advocacy Certificate Program (Summer 2023)
• Electrification
• Mobilization Managers
• En-ROADS Engagement
• Youth
• Agriculture & Forestry
• Trainers
• Election Engagement

Top Dozen Most Active Volunteers on CCL Community in 2023

Each and every CCL volunteer's participation matters and we wanted to share a special thank you to each of the following twelve volunteers outside of our staff and state coordinators who were the most active on CCL Community throughout 2023:

• Carl Yaeckel
• Bruce Frishkoff
• Bob James
• Analicia Hazelby
• Sandy Whitley
• Emily Wortman-Wunder
• Andrea De Zubiria
• Barbara Moulton
• Cynthia Lesky
• Kathy Seal
• Nadine Kadell Sapirman
• Julien Yannick Perrette

Overall, thanks to every single CCL volunteer, we collectively took 5,167,802 actions (from posting in our forums, sending messages, RVSPing to events, downloading resources, etc.) through our advocacy in 2023 on CCL Community! Here's hope each of you had a rejuvenating holiday season and we look forward to an empowered 2024 ahead together!