
What We Do
SCEN is more than a network—it’s a movement-building hub. Together with our members, we:
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Build Power: We strengthen grassroots and frontline organizations through funding, training, and leadership development.
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Drive Policy Change: We coordinate campaigns and advocacy for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and just climate policies across the Southeast.
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Support Communities: From rapid disaster relief to long-term resilience planning, SCEN mobilizes resources to communities most impacted by climate change.
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Create Connection: Through convenings, working groups, and state-based “subregional tables,” we provide spaces for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and collective strategy.
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Tell Our Stories: We amplify Southern voices through climate storytelling, films, and narrative change initiatives.
Benefits For Our Members
SCEN members are part of a vibrant network that shares resources, builds collective power, and drives climate justice across the Southeast. Membership provides:
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Access to Training & Peer Support – Ongoing opportunities to learn, connect, and strengthen capacity through working groups, enrichment series, and skill-building sessions.
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Curricula in Organizing, Communications & Leadership – Topical trainings in climate adaptation methods, clean energy transition, community data collection, legislation advocacy, community organizing, comms, and leadership development.
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State-Level Strategic Planning Tables – Collaborative spaces for members to shape campaigns, coordinate policy advocacy, and align strategies at the state and subregional level.
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Funding & Resource Support – Access to SCEN’s regranting, stipends, and technical assistance to strengthen grassroots projects and community-led solutions.
Why the Southeast Is Critical
The Southeast is a frontline region for both climate impacts and inequities:
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High vulnerability to hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat, and energy insecurity.
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Underinvestment in grassroots-led climate solutions compared to other U.S. regions.
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Disproportionate impact on low-income communities, communities of color, and rural areas.
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A Growing Force for Climate Justice: home to powerful grassroots organizing, cultural movements, and faith-based leadership.
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Ground Zero for Energy Transition: The Southeast has some of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities and fossil fuel infrastructure—shifting this region toward clean, equitable energy has national and global implications.
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Cultural and Political Shifts Start Here: From civil rights to climate justice, the South has shaped national change before—and will do it again.