Lobby Meeting Toolkit 🧰

Complete Guide: This guide provides step-by-step instructions, best practices, conversation tips, and engagement strategies to ensure that your lobbying efforts help build relationships and grow the climate movement in an effective and inclusive way.

Meeting checklist

5-8 weeks prior

 

📋 indicates appointment setter actions

 

📁 Materials for your meeting

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Sample Meeting Plan

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Appointment Setting Log

Only accessible to appointment setters

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Meeting Roles

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Fall 2025 Primary and Supporting Asks

For the best lobby day experience, it is recommended that all participants watch the Primary and Supporting Asks training(s). Additional training will be provided at the conference.

Fall Primary and Supporting Asks coming soon!

Lobby Training #1: Primary & Secondary Asks
October 30 • 8:00PM ET
Lobby Training #2: Legislative Plan and Q&A
November 3 • 1:00PM ET
Fall 2025 Virtual Conference
November 14-15

🎓 Preparing to Lobby

Visit the Preparing for Lobby Day page for more important details regarding recommended training, the lobby meeting appointment setting process and team creation, and how to plan and best prepare for lobby day.

Climate Advocate Training

Climate Advocate Training is required for all first time lobbying participants. Climate Advocate Training will also be available as a conference session. Additional training will be provided at the conference.

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Climate Advocate Training
November 2 • 2:00PM ET
Required
New Lobby Participants
Recorded version available

Additional Upcoming Training

Fall Conference & Lobby Day Logistics and Q&A
November 3 • 1:00PM ET
New Participants
Lobby Meeting Leader Training
Recorded
Meeting Lead

Featured Training Paths

Though not required, many of CCL's trainings will help you to feel more prepared for lobby day.

Working with Congress

4 Trainings

These trainings will help you strategize, plan and execute a successful lobby meeting and build a great relationship with your Member of Congress and their staff.

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Preparing for Lobby Days

6 Trainings

CCL's first level of political will is lobbying, as nothing is more impactful than constituents meeting frequently and building strong relationships with their member of Congress and staff.

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Effective Climate Communications

3 Trainings

Communication skills are essential to having productive conversations with all different kinds of people about climate solutions.

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Communicating Across the Aisle

2 Trainings

How to reach out, listen, and connect on climate.

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Additional Materials

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Member of Congress Bios

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Meeting Minutes (Printed Notes Form)

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Meeting Minutes (Online Form)

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Business Cards

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Thank You Cards

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Zoom Backgrounds

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Lobbying Discussion

Relevance
Nancy Jacobson
In Delays to Wind and Solar Energy Projects: Permitting and Litigation Are Not ...
Ola Klingberg
@Dana Nuccitelli @ Jennifer Tyler I was about to write an LTE on permitting ...
Dana Nuccitelli
There have been a lot of recent surveys quantifying how concerned Americans ...
Chris Wiegard
hi all- My question has two parts and relates to the November virtual lobbying ...
John Trombold
The Cheap Energy Act introduced this week by Rep. Sean Casten and Mike Levin ...
Jerry Porter
In our Oregon GLs meeting yesterday, we heard from a group leader who had ...
Dana Nuccitelli
There's a new study in Nature , Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in ...
Michelle Hamilton
An article appeared in the Sunday edition of our local paper about FOFA that I ...
Daniela Brod
As time has gone by, understanding deepened, changes in the Senate bill - Have ...
Dana Nuccitelli
Heatmap's Jeva Lange talks to Megafire's Matt Weiner about the Fix Our Forests ...