California Climate & Energy Collaborative

State & Local Energy & Climate Coordination (SLECC) Presents

Regional Energy and Climate Hub (REACH)

The Regional Energy and Climate Hub (REACH) is an extension of the State and Local Energy and Climate Coordination (SLECC) effort led by CCEC and the Strategic Growth Council. REACH offers a streamlined communication and ideation hub for key state and regional stakeholders to work together more closely to elevate and catalyze place-based energy, land use, and climate progress.

We believe more streamlined and sustained coordination among governments, CBOs, philanthropy, higher education, and other assistance providers can help regions better leverage available capacity and resources to accelerate place-based energy, climate, and land use goals. We know CA communities and agencies want to ensure the right investments are made in the right places and projects, but are stretched thin and are overwhelmed by so many siloed engagement and assistance opportunities, making it especially challenging for those most in need to participate.
The goals of REACH are to:

  • Help identify, document, and map a comprehensive and cumulative understanding of the region’s priorities, needs, challenges, and landscape of stakeholders and assistance providers that can be used guide effective State and regional efforts (through discussions and activities).
  • More easily access and inform specific, active State input opportunities on relevant policy, programs and projects, ensuring more inclusive, actionable and participatory decision-making (through State-led breakouts)
  • Exchange knowledge, best practices, and successes about community-driven efforts through Region-led breakouts.
  • Gain awareness of and access to available State and regional funding, incentive, or technical opportunities – or suitable participants for your programs and services (through our assistance lounge and guide).
  • Help develop a bold statewide solution that addresses challenges communities face in accessing sustained funding and assistance for priority projects with less capacity extracted away from action (through discussions and activities)

  • Build or deepen collaborative relationships among State and community-serving organizations that can innovate, replicate, or scale up the region’s promising efforts (through networking and ongoing communication opportunities)

Ongoing Engagement

REACH’s long term mission is to leverage the collective power of state, federal and regional capacity and resources to advance place-based energy, climate, and land use priorities through lasting regional hubs. It is community-driven (local gov, tribal gov, academic institutions, philanthropy, CBO/NGOs) and partners and engages with State and federal agencies.

In the effort to continue engagement in each region, REACH is intended as an ongoing series. To that end, we are working on a series of resources for each region including a website with previous events (if any), a regional assistance guide, a landscape analysis and a listserv that folks working in a particular region are welcome to join to stay up to date and engage with their area.

REACH is presented by:

Are you interested in partnering with us on this or future events?
Contact us at eecoordinator@civicwell.org.