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What We Do

SCEN is more than a network—it’s a movement-building hub. Together with our members, we:

  • Build Power: We strengthen grassroots and frontline organizations through funding, training, and leadership development.

  • Drive Policy Change: We coordinate campaigns and advocacy for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and just climate policies across the Southeast.

  • Support Communities: From rapid disaster relief to long-term resilience planning, SCEN mobilizes resources to communities most impacted by climate change.

  • Create Connection: Through convenings, working groups, and state-based “subregional tables,” we provide spaces for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and collective strategy.

  • 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:

  1. Access to Training & Peer Support – Ongoing opportunities to learn, connect, and strengthen capacity through working groups, enrichment series, and skill-building sessions.

  2. 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.

  3. State-Level Strategic Planning Tables – Collaborative spaces for members to shape campaigns, coordinate policy advocacy, and align strategies at the state and subregional level.

  4. 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:

 

  • High vulnerability to hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat, and energy insecurity.

  • Underinvestment in grassroots-led climate solutions compared to other U.S. regions.

  • Disproportionate impact on low-income communities, communities of color, and rural areas.

  • A Growing Force for Climate Justice: home to powerful grassroots organizing, cultural movements, and faith-based leadership.

  • 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.

  • Cultural and Political Shifts Start Here: From civil rights to climate justice, the South has shaped national change before—and will do it again.

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Help Us Thrive

Members of SCEN are part of a network of organizations working to advocate meaningful and effective solutions to climate justice and racial equity in the Southeast.

Your donation will help SCEN members fight climate crisis in a just and equitable way. 

(SCEN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization)

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