Meet the Collaborators
A Shared Vision
Sustained social change requires tremendous vision and pooled resources. Our collaborators bring the needed expertise, lived experiences, and strategic insight to shift us from where we are to where we need to be.
Who we are
People’s Climate Innovation Center and Institute for Market Transformation are the founding partners of Community Climate Shift (CCS). We have complementary strengths in community organizing and technical building policy knowledge, and we share a commitment to creating buildings that serve people in frontline communities.
Our organizations are responsible for CCS fundraising, fund distribution, and overall project management. However, community-based organizations (CBOs), with deep connections to their communities, lead the on-the-ground work collecting feedback and advocating for solutions in partnership with local governments, many of which are part of the National Building Performance Standards Coalition. Neither the local governments nor CBOs receive federal funding for their time engaging together on these issues, so CCS is designed to ensure residents and CBOs have the resources necessary to fully participate in the policymaking process.
As local communities call for greater power in climate solutions and governments commit to better buildings, we seek to unite efforts for widespread change.
Building Equity in Climate Solutions
The role of Building Equity in Climate Solutions (BECS) is to inform how resources get allocated and prioritized for CCS, ensuring the majority of resources raised are going toward carrying out the priorities of CCS work in service of our frontlines communities. BECS is composed of varied community-based organizations working at the intersection of climate justice and equitable decarbonization.
Equitable Decarbonization Collaborators
Equitable Decarbonization Collaborators are partner organizations that have expertise in different issues surrounding the built environment. They are non-profit organizations that specialize in things like building electrification, workforce development, affordable housing, energy efficiency, etc. while also applying equity as a core principle in their programmatic frameworks.
The Community Climate Shift Ecosystem
Community-led climate resilience planning expertise- Ecosystem and power mapping
- Collaborative program design
- Participatory planning and strategy
- Technical expertise (policy, utilities, real estate, codes, implementation)
- Connections to local government
- Regulatory processes and knowledge of local political environment
- Collaborate with community groups in the planning process
- Receive guidance from IMT and PCIC on best practices
- Building codes development and implementation
- Equitable, community-led building decarbonization policy
- Economic inclusion through equitable workforce development
- Zero carbon buildings
- Accountability to and alignment with frontline communities
- Grassroots organizing
- Campaign strategies
- Community-led climate resilience planning expertise
- Ecosystem and power mapping
- Collaborative program design
- Participatory planning and strategy
- Technical expertise (policy, utilities, real estate, codes, implementation)
- Connections to local government
- Regulatory processes and knowledge of local political environment
- Collaborate with community groups in the planning process
- Receive guidance from IMT and PCIC on best practices
- Building codes development and implementation
- Equitable, community-led building decarbonization policy
- Economic inclusion through equitable workforce development
- Zero carbon buildings
- Accountability to and alignment with frontline communities
- Grassroots organizing
- Campaign strategies
About our Logo
The Community Climate Shift (CCS) brand mark is composed of two interlocking “Cs” that combine to form an “S”. The resulting shape is architectural with height, depth and volume. This speaks to CCS’s mission of investing in community-led climate solutions that develop healthy, resilient buildings. The shape and use of color symbolizes movement and shifting. The typography used in the word “shift” is in a markerboard style symbolizes the direct involvement of local communities in creating more equitable building policies.