Community Engagement is at the heart of what we do at the California Water Conservancy. Through informative speaker events, impactful presentations, and a variety of seminars we seek to raise awareness for pertinent environment-related issues and empower people to attain a sustainable future for themselves and their communities.
Our Current Focus
Education Initiatives
Central to our efforts, education initiatives are how we spread our message and get others to join our cause and other conservation movements to truly make an impact.
Advocacy Initiatives
Through our lobbying efforts, we seek to remedy issues that are plaguing our society and advance environmentally-friendly causes that are being hindered by political inaction.
Recycling Initiatives
Central to our efforts, community awareness is how we spread our message and get others to join our cause and other conservation movements to truly make an impact.
Education Initiatives
Community awareness is a cornerstone of our pro-environmental efforts. Through presentations, workshops, letter writing campaigns, phone banks, and speaker events, we try to get our communities involved as much as possible, recognizing that we will only truly be able to make a significant and lasting impact if we spread our message and get others to join our cause as well as other conservation movements. We hold various awareness and fundraising events in local libraries, schools, and community centers and frequently partner with other organizations in order to make the greatest impact.
Photo Gallery
Justice Summit Presentation
Resources
Simulation Game Materials
These are the materials we used for our simulation game at the Bay Area Teach in for Justice. Feel free to print them out and use them as your own if you are holding your own workshop!
Advocacy Initiatives
Once every spring, our team takes a trip to the State Capitol in Sacramento, where we present to various state legislators our policy proposals and lobby for pro-environment bills in the current legislation cycle. In the weeks leading up to this trip, we craft detailed and thorough talking points and policy proposals that emphasize our perspective as youth and as youth advocates fighting for environmental justice. Along with preparing ourselves, we also assist advocacy groups from other schools and organizations develop their own talking points and create advocacy networks that help bring our team and many of these other groups together under the same goal: striving for social justice. This way, we can all lobby together on specific dates and work together to create stronger, more compelling arguments and talking points. Aside from advocacy, our annual trip to Sacramento also includes giving workshops and presentations on issues we feel passionate and environmental change that we want implemented on a state level.
