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Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) will register 100,000+ voters via field canvass and layered digital. ACE focuses on registering young people by tabling in high-traffic areas (campuses, concerts, community centers), phone and text-banking, door knocking, and cost-effective digital engagement.
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) has a mission to educate, inspire, and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We ensure they have everything they need to understand the science and advocate for solutions to the climate emergency. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, CA, GA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NV, NC, OH, OK, PA, TX, VT, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), Other
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Lead Contact: Alex WeeksSenior Director of Philanthropyalex@acespace.org
Priority Issues: We focus on organizing youth around issues pertaining to the climate emergency. Central to our voter engagement approach is ongoing, consistent civic organizing and engagement with young people in order to ensure the highest impact on registration and turnout during both national and local election cycles. Our state-based field canvass operations leverage evolving talking point strategies that shift from a voter registration focus to turnout and then onto broader election awareness education. For example, our paid canvass voter registration program in Wisconsin this spring was focused on registering new young voters and turning them out for the state Supreme Court race—canvassers included educational messaging about why civic engagement in down-ballot, off-cycle elections is important. We then convert our voter registration operations into voter turnout messaging. At the same time, our digital voter engagement strategies use creative marketing tactics to drive conversions—leveraging issue organizing and online trends to attract folks who are not easily engaged through basic voter registration messaging. At ACE, we also know that the environment and climate change are top issues driving young people to the polls. As such, our year-round youth organizing and power-building focuses on engaging young people in climate action opportunities that build this civic muscle. In fact, this fall ACE ran a pre-2024 Election Youth Survey with our research partners at CIRCLE at Tufts University to poll eligible youth voters, revealing key findings that include: The youth vote has the potential to be a powerful force in 2024: 57 percent of youth polled expressed that they are “extremely likely” to vote in 2024 and another 16 percent say they are “fairly likely,”—meaning 2024 could elicit the highest youth voter turnout in recent history. Concern for climate drives voting: Climate was identified as a top three voting issue among youth—and those who selected climate as a top issue were 20 points more likely to say they’ll vote in 2024. Engaging our nation’s youngest citizens is critical for building lifelong voting habits: We know from prior research that voting is a “sticky habit,” and this poll underscores that finding—with 86 percent of young people who voted in 2022 reporting that they are “extremely likely” to vote again in 2024. Many youth—particularly marginalized youth—feel unprepared to vote: Less than 1 in 5 young people have heard about politics and issues this year from organizations like ACE (14 percent). Black youth, young People of Color in rural communities, and young people without a college degree are receiving even less information—and simultaneously report that they are less likely to vote. This year our key issue advocacy areas of focus for this work include: stopping new fossil fuel industry expansion (particularly in the Midwest, Ohio River Valley, and Gulf South); softening the ground for clean energy permitting locally to seize siting opportunities via federal climate investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA); accelerating IRA implementation and popularizing its benefits with consumers; and putting pressure on elected officials to advance policies and regulations that protect the environment and surrounding communities including fracking regulatory reforms in Pennsylvania. Further, fossil fuel corporations are currently outspending the clean energy sector 13 to 1 in political contributions. It’s clear the fossil fuel lobby has a stranglehold on U.S. politics and is successfully manipulating our political system to its benefit. However, we also know that an achievable increase of just a few percentage points in youth turnout in local elections can have a major impact on state Supreme Courts, City Councils, County Commissioners, Port Commission seats, and Public Utility Commission elections—all of which have the power to decide the fate of fossil fuel and renewable energy projects. ACE mobilizes young voters around these local, down-ballot elections—so far this year, we registered and turned out young voters in the lead-up to key local races in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and educated our network in Ohio on the Issue 1 special election that had a pivotal impact on democracy in the state. Both ACE and CEA focus on organizing youth around issues pertaining to the climate emergency. Central to our voter engagement approach is ongoing, consistent civic organizing and engagement with young people in order to ensure the highest impact on registration and turnout during both national and local election cycles. Our key state-based field canvass operations leverage evolving talking point strategies that shift from a voter registration focus to turn out and then onto broader election awareness education. For example, while our recent paid canvass voter registration program in North Carolina was principally focused on registering new young voters of color and building excitement for the 2024 election—if a voter was registering in a Charlotte district, canvassers shifted to education about the upcoming local Charlotte City Council races and why civic engagement in down-ballot, off-cycle elections was important. At the same time, our digital voter engagement strategies use creative marketing tactics to drive conversions—leveraging issue organizing and online trends to attract folks who are not easily converted through basic voter registration messaging. At ACE, we also know that the environment and climate change are top issues driving young people to the polls. As such, our year-round youth organizing and power-building focuses on engaging young people in climate action opportunities that build this civic muscle. This year our key issue advocacy areas of focus for this work include: stopping new fossil fuel industry expansion (particularly in the Midwest, Ohio River Valley, and Gulf South); softening the ground for clean energy permitting locally to seize siting opportunities via federal climate investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA); accelerating IRA implementation and popularizing its benefits with consumers; advancing 100% renewable energy state-based agendas; and holding utilities like Southwest Energy, Duke Energy, NW Naturals, and Arizona Public Services accountable. Further, fossil fuel corporations are currently outspending the clean energy sector 13 to 1 in political contributions. It’s clear the fossil fuel lobby has a stranglehold on U.S. politics and is successfully manipulating our political system to its benefit. However, we also know that an achievable increase of just a few percentage points in youth turnout in local elections can have a major impact on state Supreme Courts, City Councils, County Commissioners, Port Commission seats, and Public Utility Commission elections—all of which have the power to decide the fate of fossil fuel and renewable energy projects. ACE mobilizes young voters around these critical local, down-ballot elections—so far this year, we registered and turned out young voters in the lead-up to key local races in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, and educated our network in Ohio on the Issue 1 special election that had a pivotal impact on democracy in the state.
In 2022, CEA engaged 36M+ voters in the top 10 performing organizations nationwide with 57% turnout. In 2024, we will educate and engage 50M voters via field canvass and layered digital.
Climate Emergency Advocates (CEA) was founded in 2021 as the 501(c)(4) affiliate of Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) to mobilize millions of young people to support climate and clean energy leadership, and to accelerate the end of the fossil fuel era and the deployment of renewable energy.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, CA, GA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NV, NC, OH, OK, PA, TX, VT, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), Other
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Priority Issues: We focus on organizing youth around issues pertaining to the climate emergency. Central to our voter engagement approach is ongoing, consistent civic organizing and engagement with young people in order to ensure the highest impact on registration and turnout during both national and local election cycles. Our state-based field canvass operations leverage evolving talking point strategies that shift from a voter registration focus to turnout and then onto broader election awareness education. For example, our paid canvass voter registration program in Wisconsin last spring was focused on registering new young voters and turning them out for the state Supreme Court race—canvassers included educational messaging about why civic engagement in down-ballot, off-cycle elections is important. We then convert our voter registration operations into voter turnout messaging. At the same time, our digital voter engagement strategies use creative marketing tactics to drive conversions—leveraging issue organizing and online trends to attract folks who are not easily engaged through basic voter registration messaging. , , At ACE and CEA, we also know that the environment and climate change are top issues driving young people to the polls. As such, our year-round youth organizing and power-building focuses on engaging young people in climate action opportunities that build this civic muscle. In fact, this fall ACE ran a pre-2024 Election Youth Survey (https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/youth-concern-about-climate-change-drives-civic-engagement) with our research partners at CIRCLE at Tufts University to poll eligible youth voters, revealing key findings that include: , - The youth vote has the potential to be a powerful force in 2024: 57 percent of youth polled expressed that they are “extremely likely” to vote in 2024 and another 16 percent say they are “fairly likely,”—meaning 2024 could elicit the highest youth voter turnout in recent history., - Concern for climate drives voting: Climate was identified as a top three voting issue among youth—and those who selected climate as a top issue were 20 points more likely to say they’ll vote in 2024., - Engaging our nation’s youngest citizens is critical for building lifelong voting habits: We know from prior research that voting is a “sticky habit,” and this poll underscores that finding—with 86 percent of young people who voted in 2022 reporting that they are “extremely likely” to vote again in 2024., - Many youth—particularly marginalized youth—feel unprepared to vote: Less than 1 in 5 young people have heard about politics and issues this year from organizations like ACE (14 percent). Black youth, young People of Color in rural communities, and young people without a college degree are receiving even less information—and simultaneously report that they are less likely to vote. , , This year our key issue advocacy areas of focus for this work include: stopping new fossil fuel industry expansion (particularly in the Midwest, Ohio River Valley, and Gulf South); softening the ground for clean energy permitting locally to seize siting opportunities via federal climate investments like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA); accelerating IRA implementation and popularizing its benefits with consumers; and putting pressure on elected officials to advance policies and regulations that protect the environment and surrounding communities including fracking regulatory reforms in Pennsylvania. , , Further, fossil fuel corporations are currently outspending the clean energy sector 13 to 1 in political contributions. It’s clear the fossil fuel lobby has a stranglehold on U.S. politics and is successfully manipulating our political system to its benefit. However, we also know that an achievable increase of just a few percentage points in youth turnout in local elections can have a major impact on state Supreme Courts, City Councils, County Commissioners, Port Commission seats, and Public Utility Commission elections—all of which have the power to decide the fate of fossil fuel and renewable energy projects. ACE mobilizes young voters around these local, down-ballot elections—so far this year, we registered and turned out young voters in the lead-up to key local races in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and educated our network in Ohio on the Issue 1 special election that had a pivotal impact on democracy in the state.
