CCL Training: Building Relationships With County Commissioners As Trusted Messengers

About this episode

This episode provides training on how to build relationships with county commissioners to secure policy support.

This training walks you through the process of securing and delivering policy support from county commissioners on both sides of the aisle and provides specific examples of CCL volunteer success stories with community leaders in Montana. We’ll also talk about identifying and connecting with trusted messengers and why it’s effective and efficient to start with the ones in your direct network. Skip ahead to the following section(s):(0:00) Intro & Agenda(3:18) What Is A Trusted Messenger?(4:25) Why County Commissioners?(12:48) How To Build A Strategy To Get Letters(20:00 ) Case Study: Montana(29:27) Taking Action Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/county-commissioner-slides CCL Training Event: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/20756 Trusted Messenger Letter Templates: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/201 Log Your Training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/log_training?sf_id=a5y8X0000005xY2QAI

People in this episode

Host: Citizens' Climate Lobby

Topics covered

• county commissioners
• trusted messengers
• policy support
• community leaders
• volunteer success stories
• Montana

Keywords

• county commissioners
• trusted messengers
• policy support
• Montana
• CCL training
• community leaders
• volunteer success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CCL

Places: Montana

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