Recruiting For Your Group
How to grow, diversify, and build your chapter.
Self-Paced Training
CCL also offers live training sessions on a variety of topics every week. View the Training Events Calendar for a full list.
Growing Your Local Group
People want to help, be part of a team and exercise personal power, but they also have to balance their lives. To keep vibrant groups, it is important to look for opportunities to add new volunteers. On this page, you’ll find information for how to find, recruit and talk about CCL to potential new supporters.
Start TrainingGrowing Your Conservative Membership
Lots of conservatives are concerned about climate change, and many will be interested in Citizens’ Climate Lobby. This section of Community shares ideas and resources for all members of CCL to recruit conservatives.
Start TrainingDiversity & The Climate Movement
This training is geared at reviewing the historic and cultural barriers for people of color in the environmental movement. It is designed to equip you and your group with strategies and tools to expand your chapter’s diversity footprint and become more representative of your local community’s constituency.
Start TrainingYouth Outreach & Engagement in CCL Chapters
CCL welcomes youth and minors (people under the age of 18), because they have a huge stake in the outcome of humanity’s efforts to deal with climate change. We’ve created these guidelines to help you safely support youth participation in CCL’s work.
Start TrainingHow To Tour Your State and Region
This training explores how other CCL volunteers have helped build new chapters in their state and region to expand CCL’s presence into every Congressional district.
Start TrainingRural Strategies for CCL Chapter Success
Did you know that three of out the top five most productive U.S. CCL chapters in 2018 are groups nestled within communities with populations smaller than than 1,000 people? This training explores how rural-based chapters are uniquely engaging their communities to be effective across all five levers of building political will.
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