Ten Lessons Learned Advocating to Halt Climate Change
About the Webinar
1Sky is one of the largest collaborative campaigns in the United States with over 600 allied organizations, including business groups, nonprofits and governments signed on to its bold demands to stop climate change. On this call Gillian discusses what it takes to quickly build social enterprise from the ground up and convert a bold agenda into action. She shares 1Sky’s unique model, its successes and challenges, and its approach to partnerships that has set it apart from many other advocacy groups in Washington.
Gillian Caldwell is the Campaign Director for 1Sky, a new national campaign to build a diverse nationwide movement and convince our federal government to take bold action to tackle the climate crisis and harness the enormous economic opportunity of the renewable energy economy by 2010. She is also a film maker and an attorney with thirty years of experience advocating for social justice in the United States and around the world. Most recently, Gillian served as Executive Director of WITNESS, which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. She is also co-editor and author of Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism (2005).