Weekly Briefing: Gift match extended for 72 hours!

April 1, 2026

After a flurry of support in the final stretch of our March monthly donor drive, we’ve ended the month just a few hundred dollars away from our goal of $10,000 in new or increased monthly gifts. We’ve extended the gift match for just 72 more hours! Can you pitch in by Friday to help close this gap?

Hitting our goal keeps us fully staffed and resourced so we can keep providing everything you need to be effective advocates, like the resources we’ve created for Earth Month this year. 

Here’s a look at what CCL staff has created for a busy April ahead:

• BRIDGE Tabling Activity - This brand new tabling activity will let you take your BRIDGE skills out in the field! Inspired by our Yale Six Americas Tabling Activity, this BRIDGE Tabling activity prompts visitors to your table to choose from six statements about climate and clean energy. This clues you into their moral foundations, setting you up for better connections and more effective conversations.
   
• “About CCL” Handouts - We’ve updated these full-sheet and quarter-sheet tabling handouts with fresh wording and updated visuals to help you better introduce CCL to your communities during your April outreach. 
   
• CCL Trifold Display - We’ve updated this eye-catching resource with new phrases that align with our updated mission statement, our organizational Policy Commitments and our theory of change, so your communities understand exactly who we are and the unique way we work.
   

Help us continue to bring you the resources you need — as well as the strategic insights and national coordination behind them — all year long. When we work together, our collective power for climate action makes a real impact.

Join us today as a monthly donor to help us cover the remaining ground to our $10,000 goal!

I'll Pitch In!

In other news this week:

• Start Earth Month with some ‘reasons for joy’: Two CCLers in Utah, Tom Moyer and Bethany Kanten, recently published a Letter to the Editor in The Park Record News of Park City, UT. Our favorite quote? “The truth is, climate solutions increasingly align with what people want: more affordable energy, healthier homes, safer communities and more control over their futures. A movement built on joy, creativity and abundance is stronger, more resilient and far more likely to win.” Take a moment to kick off your Earth Month with more uplifting messages like this from their inspiring letter.
   
• CCL’s Ricky Bradley joins Bill McKibben on panel: CCL Executive Director Ricky Bradley has been invited to participate in a discussion on confronting climate change at the Center for Brooklyn History in Brooklyn, NY. Alongside environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben and correspondent on NPR’s Climate Desk, Rebecca Hersher, Ricky will offer his perspective on building political will for climate action across ideological divides. This in-person event is open to the public, and a recording will be available on YouTube afterward.

Take action this week

If you have a little time: RSVP to April’s Monthly Meeting. Our April Monthly Meeting kicks off Saturday, April 11 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. We're excited to feature guest speaker Katherine Markova, Partnerships Manager of Climate Interactive. CCLers have used Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator for years to demonstrate the effectiveness of various policy solutions. And Katherine herself has a long history of consulting on corporate sustainability and climate risk assessments. RSVP to attend and hear more about Katherine’s work, get the latest CCL updates, and take action with us for Earth Month.

If you have more time: Celebrate Earth Month! April is our busiest time of the year for educating our local communities and recruiting new volunteers. Many volunteers will be attending a tabling event with their local chapter this month, but even if you’re not, you can still pitch in for the planet. Plan to attend CCL Communications & Media Manager Charlotte Ward’s monthly Letter to the Editor and op-ed writing party April 8 at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT. Share one of CCL’s social media posts to your network with a personalized Earth Month message. Brush up on your communication skills with CCL’s BRIDGE advocacy training. Or even try all of the above! However you choose to celebrate, we hope you have a happy Earth Month 🌎

Featured chapter: CCL Bozeman

Typically, Montana residents have the perfect weather for building snowmen. However, lately, CCLers in Big Sky Country have noticed concerning changes in winter temperatures which are impacting their beloved snowy season. 

Members of the Bozeman chapter wanted to stage a “snowman protest” to raise awareness about the unusually warm winters in their hometown. But with not enough snow to build traditional snowmen, they got creative, using cardboard and cotton balls to create homemade snow people.   

Members of the chapter joined their cardboard friends holding signs urging for climate action and highlighting stories of how unchecked climate change impacts wildlife, water availability, winter recreation and the local economy. Their efforts earned them a segment on the local TV channels ABC/Fox and CBS local news!

“It was nice having that nice warm weather in January and February this year, but then you have to think ahead and think, ‘What’s going to happen in the summer?’” CCL Bozeman co-lead Kristen Walser said in an interview with the CBS reporter. “What are the fish going to have and the cows and the crops?”

She also cited how the NCAA had moved their Collegiate Ski Championships from Bozeman to Utah, saying, “It’s a big hit on our economy.”

Thank you to CCL Bozeman for showing us how to get craft to send an impactful climate message. 

CL has over 350 chapters across the country. Find your local chapter today and get plugged in.

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