1Sky

Liz Butler. Liz has more than 17 years of experience organizing and campaigning on environmental issues, with a focus on both market and legislative campaigns. After joining 1Sky in 2008 as Field and Outreach Director, she designed and implemented our nationwide grassroots mobilization effort that yielded hundreds of allies and hundreds of thousands of individual advocates. In 2009 she was named Deputy… See full bio.

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Story: Read about an example of 1Sky's campaigns: Given the success of our congressional district office visits in March, we knew that we could mobilize a major turnout in August. But even we were surprised by the response we got: 700 committed visits to congressional district offices in 46 states nationwide. In addition to the number of people who participated, we were amazed by the amount of commitment and passion our supporters brought to the task. In Virginia, Annie Brown and three of her friends, after calling into a 1Sky nationwide conference call briefing, got together a couple days before their meeting to finalize their goals. They did a practice run of what they would say, and decided to tap into their emotional connection to global warming. “As we related our personal experiences and deep fears about global climate change, we realized not only the power of the human element in the need for governmental action, but also the great importance of what we were doing,” Annie said. In the end, Annie’s experience was similar to those of other supporters across the country. In her words, “I’m confident this meeting will have a ripple effect and add to the collective push for change. I was honored to work with such a driven group of individuals and I am inspired to keep working for change.” (Learn more about other campaigns at: http://www.1sky.org/files/1sky-annual-report-2008-final.pdf)

Evidence of Impact Summary:

Since September 2007, 1Sky has grown to become one of the largest collaborative campaigns in the United States with 198,836 current supporters, building a society-wide movement in support of bold federal action to tackle global warming. The 1Sky campaign now combines the force of more than 500 allied organizations, a team of 50 staff in 31 targeted states, more than 168,000 climate advocates and more than 2,000 volunteer "precinct captains" covering every state in the country.

Organization Strengths Summary:

Climate Change experts believe that, with the help of a dynamic leader, 1Sky has done a good job of reaching an energetic base of followers through the web.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:

At the same time, 1Sky should refine and focus their strategy if they want to have the most impact possible. In order to accomplish this goal, however, they will need additional resources so they can build their political influence.
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Liz has more than 17 years of experience organizing and campaigning on environmental issues, with a focus on both market and legislative campaigns. After joining 1Sky in 2008 as Field and Outreach Director, she designed and implemented our nationwide grassroots mobilization effort that yielded hundreds of allies and hundreds of thousands of individual advocates. In 2009 she was named Deputy Campaign Director and assumed oversight of all the campaigning elements. In September of 2010 she became Campaign Director.

Prior to 1Sky, Liz was a co-founder of ForestEthics, where she spent 10 years as the Organizing Director. She designed and implemented ForestEthics’ overall organizing strategy and built the organizing team. During that time, ForestEthics’ work resulted in the protection of over 50 million acres of forests in the U.S., Canada, and Chile. Liz also served as the National Organizing Director for American Lands Alliance, the Director of Missouri Public Interest Research Group, and graduated from Green Corps' Environmental Leadership Training Program, where she received the third Alumni Achievement Award ever given by Green Corps. In 2010, Liz was awarded a 40 Under 40 Award by the New Leaders Council for her work. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C. with her son.

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