Power Shift Network 2017 Annual Report by Power Shift Network

STRENGTHENING THE

YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT 2017 Annual Report July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017

Power Shift Northeast Photo Credit: James Bassett-Cann

Report template designed by Megan Jackson

TABLE OF CONTENTS POWER SHIFT NETWORK ANNUAL REPORT

From the Executive Director

Annual Meeting 6 Power Shift 2016

Introduction Power Shift Northeast Power Shift Midwest Power Shift Southeast Power Shift West Convergence Key Takeaways Looking Forward

People's Climate March Action Teams

10 11 12 13 14 16 17

Introduction 21 Young People of Color & Frontline Climate Leaders 22 Anti-Oppression 23 Community Owned Power & Energy Democracy 24 Pipeline Resistance Mapping Project 25 Youth Against Enbridge's Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline 26

Digital

Webinars & Digital Trainings 29 Digital Reach: Social Media, Email & Slack 30

Membership

Finances & Governance

Finances 35 Fiscal Sponsorship 35 Board of Directors 2016-2017 36 Advisory Council 37

Acknowledgements

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

n September 2015, when I was just three months into my role as Executive Director of Energy Action Coalition (EAC), I attended a summit hosted by a few dozen grassroots organizations fighting fossil fuel extraction across the country. EAC had just launched a strategic planning process that would lead us to ask ourselves some big questions that had surfaced in my conversations with partner organizations, allies, and funders—such as: Should the coalition continue to exist? If so, what for? EAC had been around for 10 years at that point, and needed to do some soul searching. During the summit, there were campaign-based breakouts and a youth caucus. At the youth caucus, the young facilitator asked the group the introduction questions: What is your name, where are you from, and why did you join this caucus? The first young woman who introduced herself offered, “I’m 19 years old and part of a student group that’s trying to help stop a gas pipeline in the neighborhood right outside our campus. I came here because we don’t really know what we’re doing and I don’t know anyone else my age who is doing this sort of thing.” She became my inspiration.

"She became my inspiration."

At the time, I wasn’t clear on where EAC would end up, but I knew the “hub of the youth climate movement” needed to reach student leaders like her directly. I wanted to provide her—and countless other young people like her— with guidance, support, and the community I was so lucky to have had when I was a student. The more I talked to EAC’s partners and allies, the more I realized that what the youth climate movement needed was a much bigger, decentralized network of organizations working together to take on big, complex problems. Most importantly, we knew young people had the vision, determination, and enthusiasm

Lydia Avila, pictured at Power Shift Midwest in Detroit Photo Credit: Marek Olech

to lead these great changes—but, like most people, often need access to resources and relationships to be successful. Ten months after my time at the summit, we launched the Power Shift Network (PSN) to do exactly that.

"We celebrate collaboration and learning and see every member’s victory as our own."

The Power Shift Network is a national community whose members support one another in achieving our shared purpose to “mobilize the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.” We are grounded in principles of self-determination, equity and justice. We celebrate collaboration and learning and see every member’s victory as our own. It is an honor to lead this organization—along with our staff, our member organizations and the board—into this new and exciting chapter. All of us at the Power Shift Network have big aspirations: to empower an unstoppable youth climate movement with all the tools, knowledge, social capital and skills needed to create societal and systemic change.

Lydia D. Avila // Executive Director Power Shift Network she/hers

ANNUAL MEETING O

n February 3rd and 4th, we hosted our first annual meeting as the Power Shift Network (PSN). It brought together 65 young leaders from around the country, representing 45 climate and social justice organizations. At the meeting we: ÆÆ Built relationships among our members rooted in trust and solidarity; ÆÆ Identified opportunities for members to collaborate on campaigns and projects; ÆÆ Created space to discuss the current political climate and its effects on our work; and ÆÆ Identified our Network-wide priorities for 2017 (which are discussed in more detail starting on page 20) The annual meeting launched four action teams to expand PSN’s capacity in 2017. The action teams* focus on: ÆÆ Organizing opposition to proposed oil and gas pipelines, particularly in the Midwest ÆÆ Supporting energy democracy and communityowned renewable energy ÆÆ Engaging youth in the People’s Climate March ÆÆ Leadership development for young people of color

PSN Member Org Representatives, Board & Staff at 2017 Annual Meeting. Photo Credit: Mark Perkins

*More details about our concept of “action teams” and what these teams are working on can be found starting on page 20.

POWER SHIFT 2016

Photo Credit: James Bassett-Cann

POWER SHIFT 2016 (CONT) Introduction Conversations about Power Shift in 2016 began at the EAC Annual Meeting in January 2015. The Coalition laid out a vision and established concrete objectives for a series of regional Power Shift convenings that would be anchored by EAC members and new partners rooted in local work. In January 2016, we began accepting proposals for regional convenings that would train and prepare young leaders to build the climate movement in their communities, create space for youth-led strategic planning, and help set a powerful frame for the youth climate movement around the next political cycle while also supporting grassroots community efforts. We brought on a Power Shift Coordinator who worked with local partners to to establish four regional convenings: the Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and West, taking place in Philadelphia, Detroit, Orlando, and Berkeley, respectively. Regional organizing teams, consisting of local and some national organizations, were created to bottomline programming and the nuts and bolts of execution of each convening. Read on for highlights from each convening.

Power Shift Northeast In July, we hosted Power Shift Northeast from July 22nd to the 24th at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ÆÆ This convening's structure included workshops, an “unconference” component where attendees could host their own workshops or discussions, and two plenaries - one focused on local organizing fights, and the other focused on the importance of electoral engagement. ÆÆ Program highlights included a film screening and reflection space with Ramona Africa, the last survivor of the M.O.V.E. organization bombed by the Philadelphia police in 1985, a tour of a local urban community garden run by a PSN partner organization, and an introduction to Power Shift Network’s model. ÆÆ On the second day of the convening, we officially launched the new name and brand of Power Shift Network. ÆÆ To close off the weekend, we organized the “Ride for Clean Energy Revolution” that took over the subway before the “March for Clean Energy Revolution,” the largest mobilization during the Democratic National Convention.

Power Shift Northeast participants entering a Philadelphia SEPTA station on the "Ride for Clean Energy" Photo Credit: James Bassett-Cann

POWER SHIFT 2016 (CONT) Power Shift Midwest In August, we hosted Power Shift Midwest from August 12th to the 14th at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. ÆÆ Highlights included a powerful panel to kick off the convening, featuring voices of local fights for environmental justice, like Will Copeland of East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC), Dennis Black of Black Lives Matter Detroit, and Emma Lockridge, a community activist. ÆÆ On Saturday night, the Solidarity Salon at EMEAC’s organizational headquarters highlighted voices of local Detroit performers and had an open-mic for participants to share their poetry and other talents. ÆÆ Ms. Lockridge co-led a toxic tour, guiding approximately 40 participants through one of the most polluted industrial corridors in Southwest Detroit. ÆÆ Rainforest Action Network organizers held a flash mob outside of a local Hollister store to raise the profile of their campaign to pressure Hollister and its owner, Abercrombie and Fitch, to stop their involvement in rainforest destruction and human rights abuses. ÆÆ We ended our time in Detroit with a march and peopleled press conference where local partners who had anchored the regional organizing team shared some of their stories and invited Power Shifters to engage with their ongoing work.

Participants on the Toxic Tour at Power Shift Midwest. Photo Credit: Zac Clark

Power Shift Southeast In September, we hosted Power Shift Southeast from September 9th to the 11th in Orlando, Florida. ÆÆ Our first keynote speaker was former Texas Senator Wendy Davis, who gained fame after standing up for women’s reproductive rights – quite literally – in a 13-hour filibuster against a bill that would severely limit access to abortion. ÆÆ On day two, our keynote speaker was Elle Hearns with the Movement for Black Lives (Black Lives Matter). Both speakers made connections between climate justice and other social justice movements. ÆÆ Panelists for the opening sessions included speakers from local movements for labor justice, immigrant justice, and community empowerment groups. ÆÆ The action at this Power Shift was focused on the Fight for $15 and workers' rights. Hundreds of participants rallies along with Fight for $15's local leaders outside of the largest McDonald's in the country to demand just wages for their workers. We are proud to have been able to fund the intentional recruitment of students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) through a full-time HBCU recruiter in the weeks leading up to Power Shift Southeast and by implementing a robust scholarship program. In the end, we had representation from at least 8 different HBCUs and 62% of participants were people of color, State Breakout session at Power Shift Southeast. Photo Credit: Jahfre Colbert making it the most diverse Power Shift to date.

POWER SHIFT 2016 (CONT) Power Shift West Convergence Finally, in November, we hosted Power Shift West from November 11th to the 13th at the University of California, Berkeley. ÆÆ With the convening occurring the weekend immediately following the 2016 election, many of us were shaken and unsure about how the students in attendance would be affected. However, the student leadership team had done a fantastic job of bringing environmental justice leaders of color, who were able to integrate points about the shifting political moment into their talks/workshops. ÆÆ Speakers included Zarna of the Seattle-based group Women of Color Speak Out! and mark! Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. ÆÆ We also worked closely with Diablo Bay Rising Tide members to train nearly 100 young people in principles of non-violent direct action, and then apply it the very next day at a #NoDAPL solidarity rally. The action brought attention to Wells Fargo and Citibank's complicity in funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. ÆÆ Attendees expressed gratitude for having a space to gather, reflect, and move forward after unexpected election results.

Power Shift West Convergence participants march in solidarity with #NoDAPL Photo Credit: Mikaela Raphael

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POWER SHIFT 2016 (CONT.) Key Takeaways In the end, we mobilized over 1,200 students and young people in four very different regions of the United States to build the organizing skills, political lens, sense of community, and strong relationships needed for a long-term commitment to the grassroots and electoral work that will help realize a just, clean energy-powered future for all. We made tangible strides in shifting the demographics of those that participated compared to Power Shifts hosted by Energy Action Coalition in the past. A large part of our success was due to PSNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to move financial resources in the form of scholarship money to participants of marginalized identities to ensure that they would be able to participate. We granted more than $38,500 in scholarships to 589 Power Shift 2016 participants.

Power Shift 2016 participants...

47% received scholarships to attend

85% were first-time Power Shift attendees

90% were current students

50% were people of color

18% were queer and/or trans

Looking Forward After launching the Power Shift Network, we decided to re-examine the purpose, value and impact of Power Shift convenings. In March 2017, PSN organized an ad hoc committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;composed of representatives from member organizations, board members, and staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that would discuss the future of the Power Shift convenings. This committee was directed to review pertinent documents, such as final reports from past Power Shift Directors or Coordinating teams and feedback from participants, and use their personal experience in planning, executing and attending past Power Shifts to make a recommendation to PSN member organizations about what role, the Network should play in ensuring the continuation of Power Shift convenings. In addition, if the committee decided that Power Shifts should continue to be hosted by PSN, it would put forth recommendations on key aspects of the conference format, such as timing, scope, and key goals. Members of the Network have an opportunity to review the recommendation, give input and, after a round of edits, vote on the final recommendation for formal adoption. This review, recommendation and voting process launched in April and will conclude in September of 2017.

Photo Credit: Eman Mohammed | Survival Media Agency

PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH 2017 One of the major programmatic priorities coming out the 2017 PSN Annual Meeting was deepening our member organizations’ coordination capacity and engagement with the 2017 People's Climate March (PCM). Our Executive Director, Lydia, served on the PCM’s steering committee to help ensure that young people were well represented and offered leadership roles in the execution of this mass event. At our annual meeting, we brought together members and allies who were interested in coordinating and brainstorming ideas. PSN formed a Youth Table, made up of member organizations, that planned and successfully executed a 300+ person youth convening and recruited over 20,000 young people to the march. Although PSN members played a critical role in recruiting young people— particularly college students—to the Youth Bloc of the People's Climate March, PSN's primary focus was working with partners and allies to organize the People's Climate Youth Convening the day before the march. The convening leveraged the opportunity provided by the march to train and connect hundreds of young leaders. In the end, PSN members mobilized over 300 young leaders join to the convening, and accomplished our goals of working with multiple organizations, deepening relationships and connections among members, and providing a platform for attendees to engage in campaigns after the march was over. The Youth Bloc of PCM had over 25,000 young people. March organizers said that the youth bloc was one of the most well-organized, and that our spirit helped keep energy up on a day that broke local heat records!

ACTION TEAMS

ACTION TEAMS Introduction Power Shift Network firmly believes that collaboration, distribution of power, and learning through experimentation make our movement stronger, which is why action teams are such a critical component of our network. Action teams are groups of three or more organizations working together to achieve a measurable and time-bound goal, and they are one of the fundamental structures of PSN. Through action teams, organizations can collaborate and coordinate in order to have an impact bigger than any single organization could have on their own. Power Shift Network members are encouraged to take initiative and organize themselves into action teams around a mission or goal they want to pursue together. Members of action teams have access to microgrants, staff support, communications and other Network resources. We encourage our members to try new strategies, experiment with tactics, and share their findings with the rest of the Network so that we can grow our collective knowledge. In addition, action teams can help lay the groundwork for building support structures. As more action teams emerge, there will be a need for more capacity and support than our small central staff team can offer — from strategic guidance to developing a powerful narrative, and beyond. For this reason, we are working on developing support teams - teams of organizations with expertise on specific issues, strategies or skills — that can offer tailored support for action team projects. This not only builds the capacity for volunteer leadership and "‘behind-the-scenes" support within the Network, but also deepens the collective ownership over strategic direction and day-to-day functions of the Network!

ACTION TEAMS (CONT.) Young People of Color & Frontline Climate Leaders Power Shift Network recognizes that the youth climate movement needs to support and empower communities of color and low-income communities that are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. However, we know that these same communities are heavily underrepresented in government and decision-making positions. The goal of the Young People of Color (YPOC) & Frontline Climate Leaders action team is is to empower young people from frontline communities and communities of color to take on leadership positions in the youth climate movement and in their own communities, by providing leadership development trainings, resources, and mentorship. To achieve this goal, PSN members are developing a "run for office" and spokesperson training program. We plan to recruit 10-15 youth of color from frontline communities who are champions for climate justice to participate in a 6 month training and mentorship program. The program will prepare them to run for local office and become ambassadors for the climate movement. The YYPOC action team is creating this program by: ÆÆ Reaching out to network members and potential partners to help build the trainings and recruit trainees and mentors ÆÆ Researching existing training programs and building relationships with relevant training organizations ÆÆ Developing a training curriculum geared specifically toward young people of color fighting for climate justice ÆÆ Recruiting mentors for our young climate leaders, including public officials and prominent climate advocates

Anti-Oppression The mainstream environmental and climate movement has historically excluded and worked against the best interest of frontline communities. The Power Shift Network knows that youth have the power to lead the way in creating a healthier and more just movement. This means building trust and solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and others that our movement has often harmed and excluded, and developing climate solutions that create thriving communities, healthy homes, and good-paying jobs for all. The PSN anti-oppression team formed in order to support young climate leaders in this important work. While the projects of the anti-oppression action team have been time-bound, we are currently transitioning this team into a long-term support team. An antioppression support team will provide specialized guidance for action teams and member organizations seeking to integrate principles of equity and justice in their campaigns and projects. In 2017, the team worked together to: ÆÆ Develop and host an anti-oppression training at the PCM Youth Convergence entitled “How to Be Real: Accomplices, Allies and AntiOppression”; ÆÆ Create an Anti-Oppression Resource Bank and Curriculum, a collection of more than 40 readings, trainings, and tools; and ÆÆ Write a blog post introducing the resource bank, highlighting the historical oppression of the traditional environmental and climate movements, and calling on the youth climate movement to do the necessary work to make our movement more equitable and just.

Members of the Anti-Oppression team include: New York Communities for Change | Organize Florida | 350 DC | RYSE Youth Council | UC Berkeley Students of Color Environmental Collective

ACTION TEAMS (CONT.) Community Owned Power & Energy Democracy In 2016, we established a team to bring together community practitioners developing locally-controlled renewable energy projects and campus organizers working on reinvestment and base-building strategies for demanding 100% renewable energy on campuses by 2030. This goal of this action team is to build relationships and share strategies between organizers engaged in intergenerational, long-term organizing to build the concrete renewable energy infrastructure that will create the future we want to see, with campus organizers developing student leaders to build people power for a vision rooted in democratic control of our energy system. Throughout 2016, we worked together to assemble a substantive collection of resources, which includes strategy papers, guides, maps, and links to recordings of local trainings hosted by members of the team. Since February, the team has been planning a strategic summit that will explore the relationship between energy democracy and the natural gas boom, which will take place in Detroit, Michigan in September 2017.

Pipeline Resistance Mapping Project Thanks to years of powerful organizing against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the dramatic Indigenous movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, opposition to oil and gas pipelines has emerged as not only a direct, tangible, and effective method of intervening with the business-asusual mentality that drives the climate crisis, but also an opportunity for the climate movement to show up for Indigenous rights and fight the root causes of oppression that enable environmental racism. Together, we are forging a unified identity as the generation willing to directly take on the oil industry directly, and build a movement that is rooted in dignity for our communities, stability for our climate, and respect for our ecosystems. To visualize the scale and power of this resistance to the fossil fuel industry, PSN, in partnership with 350.org, began work on the Pipeline Resistance Mapping Project, a crowd-sourced a map of groups opposing oil or gas infrastructure in their communities. Our goals are to create a resource by and for the movement that: ÆÆ Helps new activist find meaningful ways to engage in local or regional fossil fuel infrastructure fights happening near them; and ÆÆ Gives national, regional, campus, and community groups the tools to connect with one another. We believe in following local leaders when it comes to determining the best strategies and messages for fights in their communities. We are doing this by: ÆÆ Reaching out to PSN members involved in pipeline resistance work and inviting them to join the map at www.fossilfuelresistance.org; ÆÆ

Preparing for a public launch of the map in September 2017;

ÆÆ Planning ways to continue supporting and connecting the groups on the map by offering resources like web panels on citizen intervention, movement victories, public process, and more. In addition to many local organizations, members of and contributors to the Pipeline Mapping Project team have included: 350.org | Oil Change International

ACTION TEAMS (CONT.) Youth Against Enbridge’s Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline replacement project in Minnesota is one of the largest national pipeline resistance fights happening today, and young people are a critical component of the winning strategy. The Power Shift Network has convened youth-led organizations and individual students to amplify what our generation has at stake though a number of projects: ÆÆ Youth Strategy Summit: Continuing the Power Shift Network’s legacy of building regional student coalitions opposing Enbridge, we partnered with the Wisconsin Youth Network to bring together a core group of 20 students from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in February to strategize, share updates, and rally for the March Against Pipeline Expansion in Whitewater, Wisconsin. ÆÆ Water Action Day Youth Caucus: Minnesota Governor Dayton claims he is dedicated to leaving a clean water legacy to future generations of Minnesotans, and holds significant power over the Line 3 process. In order to elevate the leadership of young people on a variety of clean water issues, PSN partnered with the Water Action Day Coalition to convene a Youth Caucus of more than 50 young people, who met with Governor Dayton to express their concerns about agricultural pollution, mining, and the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. ÆÆ Youth Climate Intervenors: The Power Shift Network, along with MN350, the Stop Line3 Coalition, and the Sierra Club North Star chapter, supported 13 of the most dedicated young people in the fight against Line 3 in crafting a legal request to be an official party to the Line 3 permitting case, which was recently granted by the presiding judge. The group includes 4 indigenous youth, 5 high school students, 5 college students, and multiple people who identify as low income. These 13 “Youth Climate Intervenors” are now acting as spokespeople for their generation, and preparing to represent themselves in court by doing research and bringing expert witnesses to the legal hearings.

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DIGITAL

WEBINARS & DIGITAL TRAININGS Over the last year, Power Shift Network members and staff collaborated on several webinars and digital trainings to help deepen our network’s knowledge, connections, and skills. ÆÆ Energy Democracy and Community-Owned Power: Co-hosted by PSN members SustainUS and Groundswell, this webinar invited conversation between community practitioners and student organizers about building locally-owned, renewable, and effective alternatives to the corporate power grid. This webinar and the three following were a part of the “Planting Seeds for Movement” series highlighting staff and member organizations’ work on issues from trade to justice to network theory. ÆÆ Climate Justice Requires Trade Justice (and We Can Start With Stopping The TPP): Led by Network allies from the Sierra Club’s trade team during the climax of the TPP fight, this webinar explored local organizing work to stop the TPP and used Sierra Club mapping tools to discuss an alternative vision for trade justice. ÆÆ Weaving Networks & Building Power: This webinar, co-led by volunteer network leaders, explored concepts of decentralization and the transition from EAC’s coalition model to the open-source network of PSN. ÆÆ Put A Price On It: How Our Movement Can Build Power for a Carbon Pricing: The last webinar in the series, was led by PSN member Our Climate to discuss carbon pricing strategies, and their relationship to other power-building, youth-led work in the climate movement. within PSN. ÆÆ Fundraising 101: This training, held twice due to high demand, gave members an overview of what foundation-based fundraising entails. This training went over the donor cultivation process, parts of a typical proposal, donor management systems, and provided members with resources for ongoing support.

WEBINARS + DIGITAL TRAININGS (CONT.) ÆÆ Pipeline Resistance Digital Town Halls: In early December 2016, the Power Shift Network hosted a series of 12 regional “Digital Town Halls” to provide discussion and reflection about the resistance at Standing Rock, and create a community space to discuss local pipeline resistance work that members could plug in to. More than 100 young organizers associated with over 40 pipeline resistance groups participated in the Digital Town Halls. About 15-20 people participated in each webinar, town hall, or training. They succeeded in helping student and youth leaders develop deeper knowledge, skills and political analysis of key issues, and in creating on-ramps for more collaboration across issues and strategies within PSN.

Social Media

Last year, we reached 7,114,546 people on social media

We built a email list of

104,544

6,797

people

of whom took action online

4,524 on Instagram 2.3M on Twitter 4.8M on Facebook 90K on all three!

DIGITAL REACH Slack Slack is a powerful online platform that our network has used since the winter of 2016 to communicate and organize with each other. The day after Trump was elected president in November 2016, PSN opened our Slack community to all our allies and supporters, inviting anyone looking for “a place to connect, strategize, support, listen to each other, and plan next steps… to join our network on Slack, a digital space where we’ll be continuing these hard conversations and planning this work for the months and years to come.” Slack is transparent, flexible, democratic, and allows people to communicate with each other informally and in real time. Network members have used Slack to share and find resources, connect with organizers across the country doing similar work or in similar communities, encourage others to share campaigns and stories on social media, and plan projects and events. If you want to join our online community on Slack, you can sign up here!

Between July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017, we grew our Slack community from 63 to 732 people (That’s 669 new users!) Those 732 users sent 80,708 messages on our Slack across 48 channels—digital “rooms” in our Slack that are focused on particular issues, resources, or local areas, like pipeline resistance, trainings and events, “Team Midwest,” and many more!

Power Shift Network Membership Since the launch of our new brand and organizing model last July, 54 organizations have joined the Power Shift Network. From small individual campus groups to large environmental nonprofit organizations, members gain access to a variety of resources to organize more powerfully and effectively — like small financial grants, coaching and training support, and the ability to make connections with activists and organizers across the country. By joining, organizations demonstrate a belief in the Network’s value and say to the world “we’re in this together,” which is important for building a culture of unity and trust. Here’s what some members have said about why they are committed to building power together through PSN: “Our local work cannot succeed fully without success at the systemic level. We are invested in the Network's mission, vision and principles because mobilizing and organizing youth is critical for that change to happen.” “PSN is at the forefront of organizing students and other young people to challenge climate injustice and we believe we can both support and learn from others in the network to move towards transformative change” “Power Shift's focus on intersectionality, transparency, and equity within the environmental justice movement is right in line with our mission and our work to empower students and raise their voices as we fight for change and a more just future.” To sign up as a member organization of the Network, fill out the application form at http://bit.ly/PSNapp.

Power Shift Network's member list as of June 30, 2017 Æ Free Saint Mary's ÆActions Æ Resisting Tyranny ÆFossil ÆAlliance Æ For Climate Education ÆBU Æ Net Impact Undergraduate Chapter

ÆGamechanger Æ Labs ÆGlobal Æ Zero

ÆCalifornia Æ Institute of Environmental Design & Management (CIEDM)

ÆGrand Æ Aspirations

ÆCalifornia Æ Student Sustainability Coalition

ÆGroundswell Æ

ÆCampaign Æ to Fight Toxic Prisons

ÆKentucky Æ Environmental Student Coalition

ÆChesapeake Æ Climate Action Network ÆClimate Æ Generation ÆCoFED Æ ÆCommunity Æ Power ÆCommunity Æ Student Garden ÆClean Æ Up the River Environment (CURE) ÆDivest Æ Barnard for a Just Transition ÆDivestment Æ Student Network ÆEarth Æ Guardians ÆEarth Æ in Brackets ÆPhilly Æ EDGE ÆFlorida Æ Student Power Network

ÆCollege Æ of California

ÆGreen Æ For All ÆiMatter Æ Youth

Power Network ÆPost-Landfill Æ Action Network ÆRainforest Æ Action Network ÆReal Æ Food Challenge ÆSierra Æ Student Coalition ÆSolar Æ Head of State ÆSoulardarity Æ ÆSustainability Æ Council ÆSustainUS Æ

Æ Climate Plan ÆMidwest Æ Student Coalition ÆU.S. for Cllimate Action ÆUnKoch Æ My Campus ÆNational Æ Wildlife ÆUS Æ Student Association Federation (EcoLeaders Program) ÆVermont Æ Student Power Network ÆNew Æ York Communities for Change ÆVirginia Æ Student Environmental Coalition ÆNorth Æ American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) ÆWe Æ Own It ÆOhio Æ Student Climate ÆWisconsin Æ Youth Network Resistance Æ Peoples Action ÆOil Æ Change International ÆYoung Coalition ÆOrganize Æ Florida Æ350 Æ Conejo / San Fernando Education Fund Valley ÆOur Æ Climate Æ350.org Æ ÆOur Æ Climate Voices ÆPasco Æ Activists ÆPennsylvania Æ Student

Finances & Governance

FINANCES Income Type

Expenses Type

Amount

Grants

$474,000

Amount

General & Administrative

$95,723 $81,502

Power Shift Sponsorships

$55,214

Fundraising

In-Kind Revenue

$38,345

Program (minus Power Shift)

$448,438

Individual Donations

$33,121

Power Shift 2016*

$325,489

Event Registration

$30,466

Reserve Allocation

$25,000

Other Income

$9,975 $641,121

Total Income

*Power Shift 2016 funds spent in FY17, for which a significant amount of fundraising happend in FY16

Fiscal Sponsorship Power Shift Network launched a Fiscal Sponsorship program in 2017. PSN’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program will create an opportunity to deepen relationships with network member organizations and support their capacity for growth and impact, while also serving as a potential income stream for PSN through fiscal sponsorship fees. This program exists to help smaller organizations dedicate resources to movement-building, campaigning, and organizing, without having to spend capacity on the administrative overhead needed to ensure compliance. PSN offers its sponsorees: ÆÆ

Bookkeeping and financial management support

ÆÆ

Tax receipts to all donors over $250 (per IRS requirements)

ÆÆ

Access to our online organizing and fundraising tools

To learn more about PSN’s Fiscal Sponsorship program or to inquire about applying, visit http://www.powershift.org/fiscal-sponsorship-program

$976,152

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016-2017

Kwesi Chappin

Nadya Dutchin

Rob Friedman

Kendall Mackey

Courtney Pal

Color of Change

Groundswell

Natural Resources Defense Council

Jeff Mann

Christa Michelet

Yaz Najeebi

AFL-CIO

World Wildlife Fund

Belinda Rodriguez Consultant

Student

Danielle Simms Activist

350.org

Student

Liz Veazey

We Own It

Thanks to Samuel Sukaton, Sasha Shyduroff & Joe Solomon, who recently stepped down from the PSN Board of Directors. *Organizations listed for identification purposes only

ADVISORY COUNCIL In 2017, the Power Shift Network recruited its first Advisory Council members. This group of individuals serve as champions of PSN. Members of the Advisory Council share their gifts in service to the Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission by providing our organization with their professional expertise; their diverse knowledge of constituent perspectives; their connections to local, national or international resources, colleagues or peers; or other forms of needed assistance. We are grateful to have these talented group of individuals looking out for the best interest of our Network.

Jennie Curtis

Executive Director, Garfield Foundation

Abby Fenton

Director of Youth Programs, Climate Generation

Holmes Hummel

Founder, Clean Energy Works

Jessica Lam

Senior Program Associate for Clean Power, ClimateWorks Foundation

Asheen Phansey

Sustainability Solution Experience Sr. Manager, Dassault SystĂ¨mes

Jessica Ronald

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives Manager, Sierra Club

Jigar Shah

Co-Founder, Generate Capital

Nathan Willcox

Manager of Climate Advocacy Lab, Skoll Global Threats Fund

A STRONG MOVEMENT NEEDS RESOURCES. THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Monthly Donors Elizabeth Cerny • Kwesi Chappin • Lisa Danz • Flavia de la Fuente • Rob Friedman • Karissa Gerhke • Stephanie Gomez • Lena Greenberg • Jack Greene • Ryan Harrigan • Brandon Keefe • Emily Kiernan • Alex Kosnett • Ojars Kratins • Erik Kuecher • Christa Michelet • Ezra Monroy • Quan Nguyen • Ethan Nuss • Joanna Peltason • Benjamin Quinto • Priscilla D Rich • Ruth Richter • Kasandra Rohrbach • Jake Schlachter • Susan Schmale • Juliet Schor • Robert Spottswood •

Major Donors Jeff Mann • Cody Taylor • E. Liz Veazey • Lawrence Friedman • Cheryl Snell • Christa Michelet • Susan L Sgarlat • Rob Friedman • Robert Allen • Michele Hertz • Elevate

Foundations Carolyn Foundation • Compton Foundation • Fighter Fund • Heinz Foundation • Hull Family Foundation • Mertz Gilmore Foundation • Normandie Foundation • Pennywise Foundation • Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. • The Kendeda Fund • Tides Foundation • V. Kann Rasmussen Fund • Wallace Global Fund