3 Year Goals and Objectives

In Spring 2007 our members came together to create 3 year goals and objectives for the coalition. These embody the hopes and ideas of the young leaders who represent the partners of Energy Action Coalition. These goals and objectives help to guide the work of Energy Action and are reviewed and updated by Council periodically.

1. Build a broad and diverse coalition.

a. Outreach to new organizations for membership, prioritizing organizations who represent environmental justice, religious and non-student youth.

b. Create a campaign endorsement program to allow ally organizations to lend their official support to coalition efforts.
c. Develop more opportunities for non-traditional ally organizations and students to become engaged in the coalition and its campaigns.
d. Improve materials, website, messaging to reach a more diverse youth audience.
e. Host 2 annual large-scale coalition events with broad and diverse participation.

2. Empower life-long leaders for the climate and a just energy future.

a. Recruit and train 5,000 diverse youth leaders to be core local organizers.
b. Recruit 3,000 - 5,000 diverse youth leaders to attend the National Conference.
c. Provide anti-oppression training to youth leaders and staff and develop anti-oppression campaign materials to disseminate to student groups.
d. Provide leadership development, mentoring and experiential learning opportunities such as internships, fellowships, and volunteering.
e. Provide non-violent direct action trainings and materials to each campus group and support at least one student action per year on half of campuses.
f. Develop mechanisms to increase ownership of the coalition campaigns by young people.
g. Develop trainings and materials on sustainable living for students and staff and implement sustainable practices at gatherings.
h. Host a large job fair at the National Conference and establish better mechanisms to support young people in finding climate-related jobs.

3. Pass comprehensive policies for climate neutrality, education, curriculum, research, and community relations on 250 campuses.

a. Engage and educate 1,000,000 youth from diverse perspectives.
b. Engage 1,000 campuses in the Challenge campaign.
c. Provide student support for getting 1,000 campuses to join the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
d. Generate 2,500 local and statewide news stories about the Challenge.
e. Organize 12 regional summits and an additional 5 large scale student trainings.
f. Develop mechanisms for young people to network with each other and develop youth-led state and provincial networks.

4. Engage traditionally disenfranchised communities in climate work and prioritize support and solidarity for these communities.

a. Organize 300 solidarity actions that engage students and youth in climate justice work.
b. Engage 1,000 students in active organizing in directly affected communities.
c. Produce organizing guides and train young people at regional and state summits on community organizing and climate justice.
d. Organize a large-scale climate justice action at the National Conference.

5. Make 2008 the "Climate Election" and help pass bold, comprehensive, and just federal legislation.

a. Partner with existing youth voting organizations to help ensure a "Climate President" is elected in 2008.
b. Collect 1 million signatures of young people's commitment to climate justice and their demands for the incoming president.
c. Participate in the planning of a Presidential Debate with a youth/climate focus.
d. Create an adopt-a-rep program that involves students adopting all 435 members of Congress and 100 members of the US Senate to ensure accountability and passage of climate legislation.
e. Develop a student supported policy statement to advocate for throughout the election season.

6. Pressure corporations to become accountable to communities and the climate and empower our generation to build the green economy.

a. Develop a database and educate young people about corporate ties to universities and high schools.
b. Leverage 100 university and college endowments to influence corporate behavior.
c. Create an in-house green business arm.
d. Organize 300 actions to support campaigns targeting dirty energy projects and corporations.