Climate Protection Campaign
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Located: Santa Rosa, CA
Founded: 2002
Mission: The Climate Protection Campaign mission is to create a positive future for our children and all life by inspiring action in response to the climate crisis. They advance practical, science-based solutions for achieving significant greenhouse gas reductions.
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Leadership
Ann Hancock.
Ann co-founded the Climate Protection Campaign in 2001. With over 25 years in community leadership, education, and fundraising, she has been a sustainability planner for the County of Marin, commentator for TomPaine.com, human sexuality instructor at Humboldt State University, and real estate broker. She has a Masters in Public Health Administration and Planning, UCB.
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Financial Data
| Read Annual Report | Overhead Ratio: n/a |
| Total Revenue: $701,055 |
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Contact Info
| Website: | http://www.climateprotectioncampaign.org | Address: | P.O. Box 3785 |
| E-Mail: | ann AT climateprotectioncampaign.org | Santa Rosa, CA 95404, USA | |
| Phone: | 707-525-1665 | ||
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Story:
The Climate Protection Campaign almost single-handedly conducted outreach and education on Cap and Dividend in 2007, what impact does this proposed policy have on you?
The Climate Protection Campaign educated policy makers, stakeholders and the public with the aim of having Cap and Dividend be the top market-based solution for the Global Warming Solutions Act, AB32. Their recent work in Sacramento has been explaining the power and benefits of dividends to the Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee (EAAC) and California Air Resource Board officials.
The Committee, who works on implementing California's Global Warming Solution's Act, AB32, issued a report in March 2009 that recommended "Cap & Dividend," a policy to return revenues from the auction of permits to consumers as dividends. The report recommends that the largest share - roughly 75% of allowance value - should be returned to California households. This will help low-income people who can least afford increases in energy and fuel prices. According to EAAC figures, this dividend translates to $388 in 2012 for a family of four, rising to $1,036 by 2020, adding a total of $7,004 to family incomes over the 8 year period.
(Learn more about the Cap & Dividend at: http://www.climateprotectioncampaign.org/news/eaac_1001226.php)
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated, "I continue to believe the best program will be one that returns value to the people through tax cuts, rebates or dividends, and I applaud the Committee for recognizing those options."
Expert Reviews of Climate Protection Campaign
Evidence of Impact Summary:
CPC got 10 Sonoma municipalities to sign onto adopting one of the nation's most aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Since December 2002, 9 schools has been enlisted to reduce energy use on their campuses. CPC has raised public awareness on climate change, and is noted to have created the best county-wide program in the region.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
The Climate Protection Campaign has an incredible visionary leader who has accomplished a lot with her strong staff on a very small budget. Because of their reputation and respect within the community, they have been very successful at forming partnerships with local governments, businesses, and grassroots groups.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Some experts believe that the Climate Protection Campaign needs to take their model and extend it beyond Somoma County to have real impact (though other experts urge CPC to stay where they are). This can be challenging because CPC's mission is similar to ICLEI's.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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The Climate Protection Campaign is developing and helping to implement Sonoma county's policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | ||
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Climate Protection Campaign has made a significant impact by convening Bay Area stakeholders at an annual meeting. | ||
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The Climate Protection Campaign has been involved in getting Sonoma County governmental organizations to adopt climate change mitigation strategies for several years. | ||
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Climate Protection Campaign highlights general issues about climate change that isn't coming from any one particular angle. They also get cities, businesses, etc. to make climate action plans and take action. | ||
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The Climate Protection Campaign convinced all nine cities and the county in Sonoma to adopt one of the nation's most aggressive GHG reduction targets of 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2015. | ||
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Climate Protection Campaign has induced all Sonoma cities and the county to set reduction goals for carbon emissions and has produced a strong county climate action plan. CPC has unquestionably raised the public consciousness about looming climate disruption. It has gained national recognition as being the best at what it does. | ||
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The Climate Protection Campaign was able to get all cities and the County of Sonoma to sign onto ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection program. They have continued to strongly advocate for policies and programs that fulfill community responsibilities to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, and make climate change an issue that people in the community pay attention to. They are helping implement the new Residential retrofit program, and are working on statewide energy and climate change policy. | ||
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The Climate Protection Campaign is a leading voice for climate change programs and efforts in California. They are the conscience of the County, and are a very effective organization for keeping focus on the issue of climate change and for leading and facilitating the discussion of ways to address this critical issue. | ||
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Climate Protection Campaign has been the primary driver in creating a very strong coalition in Sonoma County for climate protection. They have created the best county-wide program in the region. | ||
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The Climate Protection Campaign has successfully brought Sonoma County from laggard to leader of the local government vanguard in climate protection. They stay on top of regional, state, and federal developments in climate policy to maximize Sonoma and Bay Area local government action. | ||
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They are visionary, as well as focused. | ||
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The leadership of this organization is knowledgeable, in-touch with current issues, and works well collaboratively. | ||
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They have great leadership and a strong reputation. | ||
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The CPC has a tireless, creative charismatic staff leader (Ann Hancock) and a small but highly qualified and able group around her. She has managed to stay funded although I'm not conversant on how she keeps CPC going. | ||
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They have strong, visionary leadership, an extremely capable staff, and are a fiscally strong organization. | ||
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This is a well-run organization of highly competent staff. They have a low rate of staff turn-over. They do excellent work with local governments and could use additional funds to stretch their reach beyond Sonoma County. | ||
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They rock - fund Ann Hancock and she will personally solve the problem! | ||
Accomplish a Lot on a Little |
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They have a strong, dedicated staff that founded the organization. They are cost-effective: do a lot on a low-budget. | ||
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They have accomplished a lot on a little bit of money. Their theory of change is clear, strategic, and sophisticated. The application of their theory is admirable given the small budget as well as being located in the geographic outskirts of the Bay Area. | ||
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They have extraordinary leadership (Ann Hancock) utilizing a "no shame, no blame" approach to build political consensus for an ambitious target. They have built a track record of successful policies, programs, events, and partnerships to leverage large grants from federal government. | ||
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They are doing the most work done in any county in the US on advancing local actions to address Climate Change. | ||
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I can't say enough good things about CPC--Ann Hancock is an absolute leader in the grassroots climate movement, and has done incredible work bringing together multiple stakeholders in climate and energy, helping to make Sonoma Co. an internationally recognized leader in climate protection. | ||
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The CPC has a strong leadership, staff, and board. The are also well respected by local governments, community groups, other non-profits, and most of the business community. | ||
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They have a great Director, Ann Hancock, a particularly strong network within local governments, great involvement of youth and students (addressing future generations), and are very good at creating a practical discussion of tools for addressing the issues. They are a great convener of forums on the issues, and provide wonderful education by the management team. | ||
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They have strong, relentless, and savvy leadership. They have a great ability to form partnerships with government, business, and grassroots groups. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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They should develop and actively teach a model for other counties in California. | ||
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If size continues to stay small will have limited impact, not sure of their growth plans. They need to more clearly show the co-benefits now that climate is not an all-powerful policy force. | ||
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They need more capacity and should expand to more priority counties in California. | ||
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There is a bit of a perennial overlapping of objectives with ICLEI, given both organizations' mission of working on climate protection through local government. This has kept the Climate Protection Campaign, which has much to offer, fairly localized to Sonoma County. | ||
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I think this group should also be looking at climate change adaptation. | ||
Carry Out Climate Action Plan |
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This non-profit has acknowledged that it has been easier to get local politicians and decision makers to set goals for carbon reduction than to induce action of real plans and measures to carry out these goals. The challenge for this non-profit is to carry through on the very aggressive and intelligently devised climate action plan and get it implemented. | ||
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Using additional funding, they need to provide answers to objections to the generally accepted suggestions to fight climate change. They need to also support and encourage neutral research on the issue. | ||
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They should stick to Sonoma County and go further in Sonoma instead of trying to work regionally. | ||
Leadership
Ann Hancock
Executive Director and Co-Founder
Executive Director and Co-Founder
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