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US Climate
Action Network
Annual Report 2015

US Climate Action Network
Annual Report 2015
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People’s Climate Movement Day of Action
in Atlanta. Photo Credit: Steve Eberhardt.

US Climate Action Network:
“Stronger Together”
The US Climate Action Network (USCAN) was founded in 1989 to coordinate US non-governmental organization (NGO) voices in
UN climate negotiations. In the 90’s, USCAN expanded its work to coordinate with state and local groups to help with national and
international engagement. USCAN is currently an increasingly diverse, vital, and growing network of 160 member organizations
dedicated to advancing climate action. The ability to create the space where a broad and deep network of civil society organizations
can establish the relationships and processes needed to achieve transformational change in climate policy is the fundamental strength
of USCAN. For the past 27 years, USCAN’s purpose and the biggest successes have been that of maximized stakeholder involvement
and moving groups from shared vision to collective action. USCAN ensures that the the climate community is stronger together than
any US organization could be alone. USCAN has committed to building a culture of equitable relationships.
USCAN’s vision is a powerful, inclusive, diverse, interconnected, nimble US climate movement that operates effectively from local to
global scales towards promoting: a renewable energy future; an end to fossil fuels and net greenhouse gas emissions; prepared and
resilient communities; equitable and just transitions. USCAN is the US node of CAN International. CAN International is a worldwide
network of over 950 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in more than 110 countries.
USCAN Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: USCAN.
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Message from the
Board chair
I was recently reminded of the principle “if you want to go
quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Nowhere is
this guidance more prescient than in the context of being part
of a climate network.
2015 served as a banner year for USCAN on many levels. The
beginning of the year brought new energy with our Executive
Director, Keya Chatterjee, solidly at the helm in defining a
renewed vision for the organization. With Keya’s leadership
we convened our first-ever USCAN fundraising event at the
French Embassy in Washington, DC, highlighting 25 years of
USCAN’s role in the climate movement and bringing together
individuals who both founded the organization and have
been dedicated to its mission for so many years. The event
succeeded in raising funds for the organization, but perhaps
more importantly, provided a platform for promoting USCAN’s
leadership and mission in the lead up to the UN Climate
Negotiations (COP 21) and helped to define our role moving
through the Paris moment.
We welcomed seven new board members to the organization
this year as well bringing additional diversity to what was
already one of the most diverse boards in the movement. And
we managed to sustain our existing and highly dedicated
core staff in Carrie Clayton, Marie Risalvato, and Rudi Navarra
and recruit some fantastic new staff with Mick Power leading
outreach and membership activities and Tina Johnson leading
on international and domestic policy.
Perhaps the two 2015 accomplishments that I am most
proud of as board chair were our annual conference and
USCAN’s role leading up to, and during, COP 21. While
USCAN has always hosted annual conferences to convene
the network, this one felt different. Being the most diverse
conference USCAN has ever hosted, there was a sense that
we are on the cusp of overcoming deep divides in the climate
movement, and there was explicit recognition that USCAN is
the organization to help us bridge these divides and build
a bigger, broader, and stronger US climate movement. In my
time attending USCAN conferences, I have never heard this
level of excitement about USCAN’s power and possibility as
an organization that can take us to new heights.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) has always served as a platform for USCAN
leadership and facilitation, but in Paris it was striking to
watch how much progress USCAN has made in ensuring that
voices from all regions in the US and from a broad group of
constituencies are well-represented and that their issues and
concerns are taken into account. This can only help us in the
future as we continue to deepen our engagement across the
public and private sectors.
Based on what I saw in 2015, I cannot wait to see what this
network can achieve in 2016 and beyond. We are in this
together, and USCAN is stronger than ever.
Heather Coleman
Manager, Climate Change
Oxfam America
USCAN French Embassy Event. USCAN Board Chair Heather Coleman, Deputy Chief of Mission Frédéric Doré, Co-Founder of USCAN
Marianne Ginsburg and USCAN Executive Director Keya Chatterjee. Photo Credit: Lorin Hancock and Jennifer Bonnello.
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Message from
Executive Director
What a year! My favorite headline coming out of the Paris
Climate Agreement had to be from Reuters: “World climate
accord hailed as turning point from fossil fuels.”
This year felt like that turning point. From the Pope Francis’
Encyclical to finalizing the Clean Power Plan, the Keystone
XL pipeline rejection, and the Paris Agreement, our network
built power and took on the toughest problems head on.
Our members stopped coal plants, pipelines, and drilling
rigs, created family sustaining jobs, passed policies that
led to renewable energy projects, advanced equity, and
prepared for climate impacts. The hard work of securing a
just transition was not completed in Paris, of course. Our work
is only beginning. It is up to the entire US Climate Action
Network (USCAN) to make sure that it is done. We have to stay
together, stay mobilized, stay in the streets, and push for and
implement the changes we know to be necessary, whether
it is creating democratically controlled, renewable energy
systems or leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Some of our members work with governments, while others
conduct direct actions to change government actions. Some
of our members work with corporations, while others hold
them accountable. From our vantage point at USCAN, we
can see clearly that our 160 member organizations make for
an amazing movement full of inspiring people, and that we
can be much so more than the sum of our parts if we have
respect and understanding for each other’s ways of working,
and unity during important moments. USCAN builds our
network’s strength by diversifying its membership, building
relationships among members with different theories of
change, and amplifying powerful voices for each critical
moment in our struggle to prepare for climate impacts
and remove its root causes. Our mode of operation is to
be unafraid of our differences, so that our network will be
powerful, not despite our diversity of views, but because of
our diversity of views.
I’ve been in this job for just over a year now, and I believe more
than ever in the power of networks. Networks aren’t a fad. By
connecting people who are focused on big goals and innovative
solutions, we can create a world for our children that is prepared
for climate impacts and powered by the sun and the wind.
Keya Chatterjess
Executive Director
USCAN Annual Conference.
Photo Credit: Olivia Chow.
Post KXL Rejection Celebration Rally at the White House. Photo Credit: Evan Weber, USCAN.

USCAN Press Conference COP 21 Paris.
USCAN Board Members: J. Drake-Hamilton,
Jacqui Patterson and Alden Meyer.
Photo Credit: Carrie Clayton, USCAN.
COP 21 Paris. USCAN Board Members: David Turnbull,
KC Golden and Kyle Ash with USCAN ED Keya
Chatterjee and USCAN member Ben Schreiber.
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USCAN Board of Directors
100% commitment — USCAN Board Members are amazing! Not only are they generous with their time
and knowledge, but each year every Board Member makes a financial contribution. USCAN’s board
reflects our networks ongoing commitment to racial equity, diversity and inclusion.
Term Ending July 2016
Adrianna Quintero
Director of Partner Engagement
Natural Resources Defense Council
Alden Meyer
Director of Strategy & Policy
Union of Concerned Scientists
J. Drake Hamilton (Secretary)
Science Policy Director
Fresh Energy
Lou Leonard
Vice President, Climate Change
World Wildlife Fund
Stephen Smith
Executive Director
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Term ending July 2017
Claudia Malloy (Vice-Chair)
National Outreach Director
National Wildlife Federation
Colette Pichon Battle
Director
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
Daniel Sosland (Treasurer)
President
Acadia Center
David Turnbull
Campaigns Director
Oil Change International
Heather Coleman (Chair)
Policy Manager, Climate Change
Oxfam America
Jacqueline Patterson
Director, Environmental and Climate
Justice Program
The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome
Senior Program Officer
The Kresge Foundation
Joe Uehlein
President and Executive Director
Labor Network for Sustainability
Jose Aguto
Legislative Secretary of Sustainable Energy and
Environment Program
Friends Committee on National Legislation
KC Golden
Senior Policy Advisor
Climate Solutions
Kyle Ash
Senior Legislative Representative
Greenpeace USA
Mike Tidwell
Founder and Director
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Rachel Potter
Projects Director
Climate Nexus
Vien Truong
National Director
Green for All
William (Bill) Snape
Senior Counsel
Center for Biological Diversity

Growing the
Climate Network
In 2015 a host of new members joined USCAN, reflecting the
breadth and diversity of the climate movement itself. A total
of 54 new members joined. USCAN was honored to welcome
new organizations which include: UPROSE, BlueGreen Alliance,
Franciscan Action Network, The Alliance for Climate Education,
Climate Interactive, Community Voices Heard, OneAmerica,
Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network, GreenLatinos, The
Solutions Project, Deep South Center for Environmental
Justice, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy.
Many of these new member organizations were involved in
the People’s Climate March in New York in 2014 and in the
People’s Climate Movement in 2015. Of those new members,
over half represent frontline or environmental justice
communities, faith communities or parents and young people.
In the same year, 28 organizations chose not to renew their
membership, many of which were smaller groups that had
been less active in the network.
This shift has taken USCAN from a network of 135 members
in March 2015 to a network of 160 organizations today,
with more organizations applying to join and leaving us in a
position of having to turn away new members. Although many
of these new members have been fighting for climate action
and climate justice for many years, some of them are taking
climate action for the first time, and USCAN has been able to
serve as an ‘on-ramp’ to the climate movement. In their turn,
many of these new members bring deep expertise in their
own communities and in different traditions of organizing and
advocacy, bringing new experience, learning and benefits to
the network as a whole.
We also made changes later in the year to our process for
adding new members and renewing membership of existing
members, designed to ensure that membership in USCAN is a
relationship — not a transaction — and something that each
member finds valuable enough to make the investment of
time, effort and resources to be a member.
Our National
Conference
The face of this new USCAN was on display at our National
Conference in September 2015. Held in Washington, DC and
co-hosted with the Center for Community Change, we brought
together nearly 300 participants, drawing from the faith,
labor, environmental justice, youth, and economic and racial
justice movements. Many of the participants who attended
were getting engaged in the climate movement for the first
time and certainly brought as much to teach other USCAN
members as they did to learn themselves.
The agenda was radically different from previous years,
putting agency in the hands of participants and allowing
lots of open space to facilitate deeper relationships and to
tackle difficult conflicts between sections of our network
(e.g. environmental justice and big green) in a frank yet
constructive way. In the course of this new experience, we
learned much about how to improve our practice even
more in future. The conference hinted at the possibility of
an even larger and more powerful meeting in 2016 with
the potentially transformative objective of building more
connection, alignment and power in the climate movement.
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Below are just a few of the testimonials we
received about the conference:
I can’t thank you enough for creating such a rich opportunity to
connect with advocates working across a broad spectrum of the
climate challenge. — Sue Reid, Ceres
This was more than just a great conference. I think we’ll look back
at this year as a real turning point, where we changed the way we
do things and put our actions where our words are in a bigger and
bolder way. I’m looking forward to a movement truly ready to do
the work towards justice. — Adam Greenberg, SustainUS
I have been in a climate change-induced ‘funk’ lately and the
last two days of your conference have sent me home energized,
hopeful, and ready to tackle a huge season of climate
action — thank you! — Gretchen Dahlkemper, Moms
Clean Air Force
Many thanks to those who gave freely of their time, energy
and relationships in the movement to serve on the Steering
Committee and make this conference happen (in alphabetical
order): Adam Greenberg (SustainUS), Bill Snape (Center for
Biological Diversity), David Waskow (World Resources Institute),
Joe Robertson (Citizens Climate Lobby), Joy Blackwood (JB
Consulting, formerly Environmental Defense Fund), Kyle Gracey
(SustainUS), Liz Perera (Sierra Club), Travis Madsen (Environment
America), Pam Rivera (Natural Resources Defense Council),
Rev Leo Woodberry (Kingdom Living Temple), Becky Glass (Labor
Network for Sustainability), Jose Aguto (Friends Committee on
National Legislation), Susan Guy (Iowa Interfaith Power & Light),
Jalonne White-Newsome (The Kresge Foundation, formerly
WE ACT), Elizabeth Yeampierre (UPROSE), Jaimie Phillip (Center
for Community Change). Thanks also to our tremendous team
of volunteers who worked on this event: Darien Pusey, Maria
Langholz, Jessica Gray, Allison Homer, Reid Dvorak, Lynn Raskin,
Lorin Hancock, Alden Phinney, Emma Friend, and Marcia Glasgow.
“Beat the Heat” Rally in support of the Clean Power Plan, Philadelphia, PA outside of Sen. Casey’s office. Climate activists including PennFuture,
PennEnvironment, Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light. Photo Credit: Katie Bartolotta, PennFuture.

Rev. Sally Bingham, Sister Joan Brown, and Susan Stephenson presented our Paris
Pledge to Karen Florini (second from the left) of the US State Department. Pledge
contained 5000 signatures and 300+ congregations that have committed to cutting
their carbon emissions 50% by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050. At COP 21.
Photo Credit: The Regeneration Project Interfaith Power & Light.

USCAN National Conference.
Photo Credit: USCAN.
N. Jenise Young, Joy Semien, Dr. Glenn S.
Johnson, Steven C. Washington at COP 21.
Photo Credit: Dr. Robert D. Bullard at Texas
Southern University.

Supporting action
in Paris
USCAN was created to make sure our network is coordinated
at important international moments, and the UN Conference
on Climate Change in Paris gave our network the opportunity
to shine this year through coordinated daily press conferences,
newsletters, “fossil awards,” bilateral and multilateral
meetings with international governments and NGOs and
meetings with the US Administration. The talks resulted in
an agreement hailed as “historic, durable and ambitious” by
many and lamented nonetheless as still inadequate to the
scale of climate disruption we are experiencing. The 50,000
people who attended the conference, including more than
200 USCAN individuals from 83 member organizations, fought
for a strong agreement through marathon negotiating sessions
and sleepless nights for two weeks. During those two weeks
USCAN’s staff of six supported and empowered the members
with daily meetings that focused on strategy and messaging,
several press briefing opportunities, meetings with negotiators
and key government officials, and updates through the list
serves. The influence of our work outside the two weeks, and
outside the venue, was cited in speeches and interventions on
a daily basis.
The Paris Agreement was a reflection of how far we have come
in changing political dynamics at home, as well as a reflection
of how far we still have to go in changing those dynamics.
USCAN and network members pushed for better outcomes at
every turn this year, and succeeded in securing many key asks,
such as an inclusion of “Loss and Damage” in the agreement,
and the decision to come back to the table every five years.
We also mobilized in the streets to have the last word and
ensure that we are working together to change the political
realities that hamper progress.
COP 21. Photo Credit:
Carrie Clayton, USCAN.
USCAN members speaking at USCAN press Conference at Cop 21.
Tonya Rawe, Dr. Robert Bullard, John Hill and Dr. Beverly Wright.
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Community Collaboration
*numbers from
3/2015–12/2015
USCAN’s core services include community
calls, list serves, briefings, intel, member
relationships, and gatherings, which continue
to be used by the network as a means of
learning from each other and avoiding
duplication of effort.
callers (avg)
for each
bi-weekly
clean call
13
160
11
active
list serves
USCAN member
organizations
SCEN members
USCAN list
serve users
international
agreementthat
includes all of
the countries
passion
press conferences
(highlighting USCAN
members)
virtual member
brieﬁngs (webinars)*
in-person
meetings*
42
11
1
25
1114
195

People’s Climate
Movement:
“National Day
of Action”
Building off the success of the People’s Climate March in
September 2014, USCAN played a key role in the People’s
Climate Movement (PCM) National Day of Action on October 14.
The core principle of the PCM is to engage “unusual suspects”
in leading actions calling for climate justice; labor unions,
immigrant justice groups, and economic and racial justice
groups have played key leadership roles in the PCM. USCAN
led the website for the People’s Climate Movement this year,
which enabled the members to collaborate on the ground to
carry out 200 actions around the US on October 14, including
in Washington, DC, where we conducted a “die-in” at the
American Petroleum institute. USCAN also played a leadership
role in the DC and Miami actions where thousands of people
(labor, immigrant and racial justice activists) took part in a
climate change action for the very first time.
People’s Climate Movement Day of Action in Miami, Florida.
SACE staffer George Cavros marches with his son. Photo Credit: SACE.
People’s Climate Movement Day of Action in Washington, DC.

Funding the
Frontlines
For years, the impacts of climate change have been felt
disproportionately by low-income communities and
communities of color. Frontline communities have a long
history of organizing to combat the negative impacts of
climate destruction on the ground. But frontline communities
and national groups working on climate campaigns have not
always worked together well. The past 12 months have seen
better collaboration and solidarity across the breadth of the
climate movement, but barriers remain — in part due to a lack
of resources. That’s why, thanks to our generous supporters,
USCAN implemented a Frontline Collaboration small grants
program in 2015. With $200,000 of re-grant funds available,
we were able to provide small grants of between $10–20,000
to the following 10 members:
++ Colorado People’s Alliance (Aurora, CO): to organize
a statewide climate justice table for Colorado, uniting
indigenous, labor, environment, student and immigrant
groups to take action on October 14 and beyond.
++ Labor Network for Sustainability (Takoma Park, MD):
to convene labor and community leaders to develop an
alternative “climate jobs” plan for the site of a proposed
waste incinerator in Curtis Bay.
++ Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (New
Orleans, LA): to train and support a delegation of 71
African American youth and community leaders from the
Gulf Coast, ahead of their trip to COP 21 in Paris.
++ Clean Air Coalition of Western NY (Buffalo, NY): to
hold a series of training workshops and community
meetings to engage three working class and low-income
communities in shaping state climate and energy policy.
++ UPROSE (Sunset Park, NY): to train 25 block captains
in this multi-racial working class community in climate
resiliency and just transitions, and continue their
collaboration with the People’s Climate Movement.
++ Arise for Social Justice (Springfield, MA): to hire
an organizer to maintain a city-wide multi-sector
climate justice coalition, and ensure that the city’s
climate justice plan (which they won) is passed and
implemented.
++ Honor the Earth (Callaway, MN): to fund legal, media
and organizing strategies of this indigenous community’s
campaign to block several proposed and existing fracked
oil and tar sands pipelines across tribal lands.
++ Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (Detroit,
MI): to train seven community leaders from each of
Detroit’s council districts in energy retrofits and green
jobs, to deliver community-based climate solutions.
++ Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
(Chicago, IL): to hold eight community-based
environmental justice events including a third annual
youth summit in this Latino community in Chicago’s
southwest side.
++ Kingdom Living Temple (Florence, SC): to engage 1,000
people through this African American faith community,
and work to get an environmental justice analysis
included in South Carolina’s state Clean Power Plan.
We also made $20,000 available for a rapid response
grants pool to support 15 organizations take action in their
communities. USCAN takes no credit for the work of our amazing
grantees, and we wish them all power in their work in 2016.
Many thanks to our review team — Jacqui Patterson (The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
NAACP), Ananda Lee Tan (The Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance,
GAIA) and Tina Johnson (US Climate Action Network, USCAN) —
who volunteered their time to advise us on this process.
People’s Climate Movement Day of Action — “die-in” at American
Petroleum Institute’s headquarters in Washington, DC.

People’s Climate Movement Day of Action in Washington, DC.

HBCU Climate Change Initiative delegates at COP 21.
Photo Credit: Steven C. Washington (Graduate Student
at Texas Southern University .
Left to right in the front row only: Julia Morgan, Amy
ciciora, Christine Herrmann, Catherine Thomasson,
Theresa Shaffer, Barb Gottlieb, and Martin Fleck.
Photo Credit: Christien Hemann, PSR.

Anne Blaire and child showing support for the
Clean Power Plan outside of the capitol building
in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo Credit: SACE.

Advocate
Coordination and
Capacity-Building
around the Clean
Power Plan
USCAN has supported advocates working on the Clean Power
Plan regionally and nationally. Learning from its 2014 national
summit on carbon pollution standards, USCAN has supported
advocate coordination on the Clean Power Plan nationally and
regionally, and strategically filled capacity gaps where needed.
For example, in the Southeast, USCAN has been providing
opportunities for routine communication and in-person
gatherings. USCAN’s Southeast Climate & Energy Network
program (SCEN) organized Southeastern-based advocates
on the Clean Power Plan with monthly coordination, data
compilation, best practice sharing, strategic conversations, and
weekly 101 trainings. For a second year in a row, SCEN hosted a
Clean Power Power summit, this time in Durham, North Carolina
specifically helping local groups learn about the new regulation
and participate in the technical process. These opportunities
have led to more collaborations and additional groups engaging
on the Clean Power Plan in the Southeast.
Advancing Equity
and Investing in the
US Southeast
Recognizing that the region has the highest levels of
greenhouse gas pollution in the country and a persistent
history of social and racial inequality, USCAN has purposely
invested in the Southeast region since 2009. Throughout 2015,
SCEN continued to engage its broad advocate membership to
capitalize on our national network and the climate movement.
Advancing equity has also been a priority for USCAN. Partnering
with local and regional groups such as the Advancing Equity
& Opportunity Collaborative, USCAN co-hosted a gathering of
equity advocates in April 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia to advance
work on the Clean Power Plan, rural electric cooperatives, and
resistance and recovery to the effects of climate change in the
region. That workshop led to a set of ongoing collaborations
and funded projects in the Southeast. Other investments in the
Southeast include working with groups such as Appalachian
Voices to integrate utility territory maps into a GIS tool and
an existing outreach database (known as the Voter Activation
Network or VAN). This new tool interface covers 12 states in the
Southeast region and allows for advocates to reach millions of
rate-payers on energy issues.
New York State Comptroller & Ceres Board Member Tom DiNapoli; Al Gore, Climate Reality Project; Ceres President Mindy Lubber; CalSTRS CEO
& Ceres Board Member Jack Ehnes at COP 21. Photo Credit: Ceres staff.

Highlights from 2015:
CELEBRATING OUR COLLECTIVE POWER
Every two weeks USCAN members have the opportunity to hop on the phone and find out what is happening
in Washington, DC and how their organizations can help back at home, as well as share information about
state and regional and international work that is happening. This year, USCAN members pushed for, and won,
some key policies at the federal level, including a budget that allows for funding the Green Climate Fund, and
solar and wind tax credits at a scale that can enable the US to meet the 2020 climate targets. Here are a just
few highlights and successes from an incredible year of work by our members (USCAN takes no credit for the
work of our amazing members, but we do enjoy sharing a few of their successes).
September 20 — Arise Climate Justice Rally at Springfield City Hall . Arise coalition on Springfield City Hall steps.
Photo Credit: Rene Theberge.

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1- Rebuilding Together Volunteer Day insulating homes in
North Philly. From left to right: Coryn Wolk, Eric Harris, Eva
Roben, Russell Zerbo, Mollie Simon, Richard Johnson. Photo
Credit: Richard Johnson.
2- Las Vegas ACE Action Fellows. Climate education day
in Carson City. Photo Credit: Reb Anderson, ACE Director
of Education.
3- Interfaith Vigil for Climate Justice at the National Mall.
Photo Credit: John Quigley.
4- Chicago ACE Action Fellows. Youth-organized climate rally
in downtown Chicago. Photo Credit: Reb Anderson,
ACE Director of Education.
5- September 20th — Arise Climate Justice Rally at
Springfield City Hall. Arise environmental justice organizers
Frank Cincotta and Audrey Ortega holding their coalition’s
postcard to the Mayor with the city’s communications
director, Bob Baker. Photo Credit: Rene Theberge.

1- Carbon rule rally outside of Senator Bob Casey’s office, 19th and
Market, Philadelphia. From left to right: Matt Walker, Eva Roben,
Gavriela Reiter, Albert Trujillo, Bobby Szafranski.
Photo Credit: Mollie Simon.
2- From left to right: Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, Marianne Comfort,
Karen Leu, Nichelle Schoultz (Sen. Mikulski’s staffer), Brother
Edgardo Jara Araya, Paul Gomez, and Aracely Quispe Neira visit
to Senator Mikulski’s office to educate the Senator on the need to
appropriate the $500 million our country has promised to the Green
Climate Fund. Photo Credit: Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA).
3- September 20 — Arise For Climate Justice Rally at Springfield City
Hall . Arise member Vira Cage. Photo Credit: Rene Theberge.
4- Students from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio, and the Dakotas, who came to the convergence to strengthen
their organizing skills and build a more powerful Midwest youth
climate movement. The picture taken for the UnKoch My Campus day
of action in November, in protest of the influence of dark money on
college campuses. Photo Credit: Sean Estelle.
5- Midwest Unrest action in August. Over 150 young people from
across the Midwest traveled to Washington, DC to demand Secretary
Kerry stop the illegal expansion of tar sands in the region. Twenty-
two activists were arrested on the steps of Kerry’s home.
Photo Credit: Jamie McGonnigal for Equality Photos.

Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in an
attempt to block the Shell-leased icebreaker,
MSV Fennica, from passing under the bridge and
joining Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet on July 29,
2015. Copyright photo by Tim Aubry/Greenpeace.

Blast from the past
It seemed appropriate that since this is USCAN’s first Annual
Report, to share two small articles from the first USCAN
newsletter, dated September 1989. The newsletter was
created by Kai Millyard, Phil Jessup, Annie Roncerel, Stewart
Boyle, Rafe Pomerance, Vanora Millar, Stephanie Thoresen,
and Ann Heidenreich. Thank you to Nicky Sundt for holding
onto this first news letter from so many years ago!
Top- Chesapeake Climate Action Network & CCAN Action Fund.
Bottom left- FCNL’s Spring Education Weekend in Wahsington, DC.
Congressman Chris Gibson (R, NY-19) with young adults from around the U.S.
Photo Credit: Rick Reinhard.
Bottom Right- People’s Climate March - October 14 mobilization in Seattle.
Photo Credit: OneAmerica.

Staff Members
Keya Chatterjee
Executive Director
Carrie Clayton
Operations Director
Tina Johnson
Policy Director
Rudi Navarra
Southeast Regional Coordinator
Mick Power
Membership and Campaign Coordinator
Marie Risalvato
Communications Director
Get involved
Become a member:
Contact operations@usclimatenetwork.org and learn
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1- Allison Homer (former intern), and Marie Risalvato. Photo Credit: USCAN.
2- Carrie Clayton, Darien Pusey (former intern), and Tina Johnson at the People’s
Climate Movement Day of Action in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: USCAN.
3- Rudi Navarra, Keya Chatterjee, Carrie Clayton and Jess Gray (former intern)
at the USCAN French Embassy Event. Photo Credit: Lorin Hancock and Jennifer
Bonnello.
4- Lynn Raskin (volunteer) and Marie Risalvato. Photo Credit: Lorin Hancock.
5- Tina Johnson and Cleo Verkuijl (CANI) at COP 21. Photo Credit: Carrie Clayton.
6- Mick Power at National Conference Prep. Photo Credit: Lorin Hancock.

Financial Report 2015
USCAN’s fiscal year begins July 1.
This report is for the calendar year ending December 31, 2015.
Calendar Year January 1 to December 31, 2015 Total
Revenue
Grants & Individual Contributions 1,372,469.18
Contractual Services - Speaker Fees 10,048.14
Annual Member Dues 98,687.50
Interest Income 591.75
Reimbursements 4,152.20
Total Revenue $1,485,948.77
Expenditures
Infrastructure/Computers/Member Survey 13,447.40
Salaries 382,836.35
Employer Payroll Taxes 31,545.51
Benefits - Health, Dental, Life, Retirement 57,444.51
Consultants for Advocacy/Education 64,516.75
Accounting - Audit, Bookkeeping Fees 5,030.55
Insurance 10,482.58
National Conference & Embassy Event 67,164.02
Internships 17,977.20
Meetings & Conferences 17,434.92
Office Equipment & Supplies 4,558.35
Website Costs 4,055.90
Rent & Utilities 35,430.00
Postage & Deliveries 590.59
Publications/ Printing 4,529.47
Subgrants to Organizations 196,910.00
Telecommunications 11,950.13
Travel 46,080.03
People's Climate Movement (PCM ) - Digital Support 23,269.23
Total Expenditures $995,253.49
Net Revenue $490,695.28

FUNDRAISING
2%
SUB-GRANTS,
MEMBER MEETING
ASSISTANCE &
TRAVEL STIPENDS
OPERATIONS/LOGISTICS,
TECHNOLOGY, RENT & UTILITIES
COMMUNICATION
INTERNATIONAL
MEMBER SUPPORT & OUTREACH
DOMESTIC
POLICY
2015 EXPENDITURES
SOUTHEAST
ENERGY
(SCEN)
8%
8%
10%
11%
17%
15%
29%
Sources of Support
USCAN Member Organizations
Bob & Mary Litterman
Collaboration of Funders
Dolphin Foundation
Energy Foundation
Two Anonymous Donors
Kendeda Fund
Pisces Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
In the fall of 2015 USCAN staff
made the joint decision to divest
their 401k from fossil fuels. By
accomplishing this, USCAN no longer
supports the very companies that are
driving climate change, reflecting
our commitment to the climate
movement and also making a very
smart financial decision. USCAN was
told by their 401k provider that they
are the first organization in the US to
divest their 401k.

350.org San Francisco CA
Acadia Center Rockport ME
ActionAid USA Washington DC
Alaska Wilderness League Washington DC
Alliance for Affordable Energy New Orleans LA
Alliance for Climate Education Boulder CO
Alliance for Water Efficiency Chicago IL
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy
Environments
Mount Rainier MD
American Jewish World Service Washington DC
Appalachian Voices Boone NC
Arise for Social Justice Springfield MA
Avaaz New York NY
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation Washington DC
Brighter Green Brooklyn NY
California Student Sustainability
Coalition
Davis CA
CARE USA Washington DC
Center for American Progress Washington DC
Center for Biological Diversity Washington DC
Center for Clean Air Policy Washington DC
Center for Climate Protection Santa Rosa CA
Center for International Environmental
Law (CIEL)
Washington DC
Center for Popular Democracy Brooklyn NY
Center for Social Inclusion NY NY
Center for Sustainable Economy Lake Oswego OR
Ceres Boston MA
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
(CCAN)
Takoma Park MD
Citizens Climate Lobby Coronado CA
Citizens for Global Solutions Washington DC
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future
(PennFuture)
Harrisburg PA
Clean Air Coalition Buffalo, NY
Clean Air Council Philadelphia, PA
Clean Energy Action Boulder CO
Climate Access San Francisco CA
Climate Action Business Association Boston MA
Climate Generation: A Will Steger
Legacy
Minneapolis MN
Climate Interactive Washington DC
Climate Law and Policy Project Chevy Chase MD
Climate Nexus New York NY
Climate Parents Oakland CA
Climate Solutions Olympia WA
Coalition on the Environment and
Jewish Life (COEJL)
New York NY
College of the Atlantic, Program in
Global Environmental Diplomacy
Mont Desert ME
Colorado People's Alliance Aurora CO
Community Voices Heard New York NY
Conservation International Arlington VA
Conservation Law Foundation Portland ME
Corporate Accountability International Boston MA
Deep South Center for Environmental
Justice
New Orleans LA
Detroiters Working for Environmental
Justice
Detroit MI
Divest Harvard Cambridge MA
Earth Day Network Washington DC
Earthjustice Washington DC
Earthworks Washington DC
ecoAmerica Washington DC
Ecoequity Berkeley CA
Elders Climate Action Truckee CA
Emmett Institute on Climate Change
and the Environment
Los Angeles CA
Energy Action Coalition San Francisco CA
Environment America Boston MA
Environmental & Energy Study
Institute (EESI)
Washington DC
Environmental Defense Fund Washington DC
Environmental Investigation Agency Washington DC
Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America
Washington DC
Faith in Place Chicago IL
Fossil Fuel Divestment Student
Network
Philadelphia PA
Franciscan Action Network Washington DC
Fresh Energy St Paul MN
Friends Committee on National
Legislation
Washington DC
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Washington DC
Georgetown Climate Center Washington DC
Georgia WAND Atlanta GA
Green For All Washington DC
Greenfaith Highland Park NJ
GreenLatinos Washington DC
GreenLaw Atlanta GA
Greenpeace Chicago IL
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy Slidell LA
Health Care Without Harm Alameda CA
Honor the Earth Callaway MN
Humane Society International (HSI) Washington DC
ICLEI-Local Governments for
Sustainability
Oakland CA
IFAW - International Fund for Animal
Welfare
Yarmouth Port MA
Illinois Environmental Council Springfield IL
iMatter, Kids vs. Global Warming Ventura MN
Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy (IATP)
Minneapolis MN
Institute for Policy Studies/Sustainable
Energy & Economy Network (SEEN)
Washington DC
InterAction Washington DC
USCAN members

Interfaith Power & Light/ The
Regeneration Project
San Francisco CA
Interfaith Power and Light
(DC.MD.NoVA)
Washington DC
International Environmental Law
Project (IELP) at Lewis and Clark Law
School *
Portland OR
International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW)
Yarmouth Port MA
Iowa Interfaith Power & Light Des Moines IA
IPS/Sustainable Energy & Economy
Network (SEEN)
Washington DC
Kentucky Conservation Committee Frankfort KY
Kentucky Environmental Foundation Berea KY
Kingdom Living Temple Florence SC
Kyoto USA Berkeley CA
LA Bucket Brigade New Orleans LA
Labor Network for Sustainability Takoma Park MD
League of Conservation Voters Washington DC
Little Village Environmental Justice
Organization
Chicago IL
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Washington DC
Massachusetts Climate Action Network Boston MA
Mickey Leland Center for Environment,
Justice and Sustainability
Houson TX
Moms Clean Air Force Washington DC
Montana Environmental Information
Center
Helena MT
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP)
Baltimore MD
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Reston VA
Natural Resources Defense Council San Francisco CA
New Jersey Organizing Project West Creek NJ
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light Albuquerque NM
North Carolina Conservation Network Raleigh NC
North Carolina Interfaith Power
and Light
Raleigh NC
Oil Change International Washington DC
Olympic Climate Action Port Angeles WA
OneAmerica Seattle WA
Oregon Environmental Council Portland OR
Oxfam America Washington DC
Pacific Environment San Francisco CA
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power
and Light
State College PA
Pew Environment Group Washington DC
Physicians for Social Responsibility Washington DC
Polar Bears International Baton Rouge LA
Presbyterian Church USA Louisville KY
Protect Our Winters Pacific
Palisades
CA
PSE Healthy Energy San Francisco CA
Public Citizen Washington DC
Rachel Carson Council Bethesda MD
Refugees International Washington DC
Sierra Club Washington DC
Snowriders International Denver CO
Sojourners Washington DC
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Asheville NC
Southern Echo Jackson MS
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now
(SOCAN)
Jacksonville OR
Student Environmental Action
Coalition
Lexington KY
Sustaining Way Greenville SC
SustainUS Washington DC
The Climate Reality Project Boulder CO
The Environmental Justice Center at
Chestnut Hill United Church
Philadelphia PA
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Arlington VA
The Regeneration Project /Interfaith
Power and Light
San Francisco CA
The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) Eugene OR
The Solutions Project Washington DC
Tribal Environmental Policy Center Rio Rancho NM
Tropical Forest Group San Diego CA
U.S. Baha'i Office of Public Affairs Washington DC
U.S. Climate Plan Washington DC
Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC
United Methodist Church - General
Board of Church and Society
Washington DC
UPROSE Brooklyn NY
Utah Moms for Clean Air Salt Lake City UT
Voices for Progress Washington DC
WE ACT for Environmental Justice New York NY
WEDO Women's Environment and
Development Organization
Mill Valley CA
Western Clean Energy Campaign Denver CO
Wisconsin Green Muslims Milwaukee WI
Women's Earth and Climate Action
Network (WECAN)
Mill Valley CA
World Resources Institute (WRI) Washington DC
World Wildlife Fund Washington DC
As we grow our membership, and bring together
partners with differing backgrounds and life
experiences, USCAN is committed to building an
inclusionary culture with equitable relationship,
where all of our members feel like they belong.

Left- Kayaks are clustered close together near the Shell
drillship Polar Pioneer as activists participate in the sHell
No Flotilla “Paddle in Seattle” protest May 16, 2015.
Copyrighted photo by N. Scott Trimble/Greenpeace.
Back cover- Taken in Paris, Champs de Mars. “Women Stand
With Paris for 100% Renewable Future”.
Photo Credit: John Quigley & Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

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