The Resources You Need for Leveraging

This page links you to sources of funding for your advocacy, planning tools to get you started and basic principles to frame your new leveraging campaigns.

Funds: How to Pay For Your Leveraging Effort

Getting Started: The Action Steps - Material to help initiate leveraging advocacy, including what to argue, whom to assemble, how to work with energy vendors, and their regulations

Getting Started: Experts Who Can Help - Low-Income energy advocates who have won; consumer protection experts

Resources from the NCAF Energy Programs Leveraging Conferences

Getting Recognized: Write a White Paper and Make the General Case - Use this CA New Mexico model that launched their successful campaign.

A Policy Framework and Statement of Principles to use as goal statements

Need specifics? See The Leveraging Tools Page for help with:

  • specific types of programs (utility, housing development, donations, and more), as well as
  • more targeted skills (regulatory intervention, legislative education, housing development, and
  • material that explains today’s debates (energy pricing, consumer rules, economic justice, environmental justice and energy security).