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Getting Started: The Action Steps

Strategic Goals and Choices
- What Weatherizers Need to Know - Strategic issues for managers of Weatherization Plus programs: a typology of utility programs, models of programs, the case for coordinated delivery with W.A.P.
- Starting from Scratch is an EOS guide to the goal, resources, and process of winning utility funding for Weatherization-related investments.
- Beginner Tips and Templates is a presentation showing the way for those who are ready to make their very first moves to find leveraged funding.
- A manual of basic energy advocacy skills
- Unique Oregon research on the local economic effect of W.A.P. found that its investments, including administrative expenditures, significantly benefit local economies.
Grassroots Organizing Strategy and Templates
- Organizing for Energy Advocacy - How Kentucky CAA Association mobilized Weatherizers, consumer and environmental advocates and won utility efficiency $$ and consumer protections. (Kip Bowmar)
- Training by John Colgan, organizer of the Illinois Coalition. General principles with energy-specific material starting at slide #26.
Handbooks and Sites: Communications Training
- Getting Started Part One and Part Two - toolkit for public communications about poverty and its solutions: the Ford Foundation’s project to develop messages
- Seven Steps for E-mailing Your Legislator
Recognizing Opportunities
- Utility Mergers (from Fisher Sheehan & Colton)
  - The Low-Income Interest in Electric and Natural Gas Utility Mergers and Acquisitions
  - Brief Regarding "Passing-On" Savings in an Electric Utility Merger - I-M-O Northeast Utilities
- Utility Refunds and Penalties - How to channel them to high-impact programs

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Getting Started: The Action Steps

Strategic Goals and Choices

Grassroots Organizing Strategy and Templates

Handbooks and Sites: Communications Training

Recognizing Opportunities