What We Do
Civic Participation
OVERVIEW
To realize a healthy and resilient future for all Kansans, we need greater awareness of climate and energy issues, improved leadership skills, and more effective advocacy at all levels.
Integrated Voter Engagement
Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) is a systems-wide approach to foster civic engagement on climate action. Climate + Energy Project uses components of the IVE Wheel to build power in communities across Kansas.
The IVE Wheel captures the myriad aspects of Voter Engagement that help build long-term power across the state.
In 2017, CEP joined a network of organizations funded by the Kansas Health Foundation to implement Integrated Voter Engagement into its work. It established the Climate + Energy Voters Take Action (CEVTA) program to connect a network of Climate Ambassadors who engaged around specific IVE components to build power in their communities and develop a more resilient Kansas:
- Engage + Educate the Electorate
- Organize + Mobilize Communities
- Develop Strong Leaders
- Achieve Policy Impact
- Public Persuasion
- Register to Vote
- Get Out the Vote
Kansas Climate CORE
CORE: Community Organizing for Resilience + Equity
Kansas Climate CORE is the face of Climate + Energy Project’s Integrated Voter Engagement work. Through organizing, voter education, and training, Kansas Climate CORE Leaders increase voter awareness and engagement on the links between health, climate resilience, and energy.
You’ll earn points every time you take action and can redeem them twice a year for fun swag! No matter how you engage, climate action is critical. Join us today!
Environmental Voter Project Partnership
The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) is a non-partisan nonprofit that identifies inactive environmentalists and transforms them into consistent voters to build the power of the environmental movement. To learn more about our partnership, read our press release.
Our partnership with the Environmental Voter Project represents a natural evolution of CEP’s work. We use a systems-based approach to tackle climate challenges impacting the health and economies across Kansas. Bolstering the voice of the electorate around these issues is critical to the future success of our state.
Sign the Kansas Climate CORE Voter Pledge
Candidates running for elected office only listen to people who actually vote. If we want elected officials to address climate change, we need to activate climate and energy voters!
In partnership with the Environmental Voter Project and Climate + Energy Project, sign the Kansas Climate CORE Voter Pledge and commit to voting for a resilient Kansas in every election.
Note: By clicking submit, you consent to the collection of your information by the Environmental Voter Project and the Climate + Energy Project.
Volunteer to Get Out the Vote!
Relational Organizing
The biggest predictor of whether or not an unlikely voter will cast a ballot is if somebody reaches out to them about the election. Climate + Energy Project partners with The Voter Network on their Voter to Voter program. As a Kansas Climate CORE Leader (and Voter to Voter Ambassador), you will support your friends and family to ensure they cast their ballot.
Phone Banking
Environmental Voter Project uses behavioral science-informed messaging to text, call, canvass, mail, and send digital ads to millions of low-propensity environmental voters with just one goal: turning them into better voters.
Kansas Environmental Leadership
Want to do even more to support a resilient Kansas? Become a Kansas Environmental Leader for high quality leadership training and networking!
KANSAS ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP
SOCIAL COHESION
Climate change exacerbates existing social and economic inequities, while the solutions yield multiple co-benefits across sectors. CEP amplifies community movements that build a healthy and resilient Kansas.
Civic Participation Blog Posts
CLIMATE CHANGE MISINFORMATION: LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Climate change is a real and urgent problem caused by human activity that requires immediate...
TAKE ACTION! SAY NO TO EVERGY’S DIRTY RATE HIKES
Kansas’ largest utility monopoly, Evergy, is proposing a rate increase for nearly 1 million Kansas customers. The proposed rate increase would be one of the largest in the company’s history, hiking Kansas Central customers’ bills by more than $170 per year. Kansas City area Metro customers will see an additional $42 per year.
How Will Your Vote Impact Clean Energy in Kansas?
Clean Energy is on the Ballot in November This blog was authored by Nicholai Jost-Epp, CEP's...
Reproductive Justice is Climate Justice
Authored By: Gelary Cardenas and Lea Elton Meet Gelary and Lea, CEP Take Action Outreach...