Dear John,

This year started with radically reimagining Climate Justice Alliance’s leadership. In July we were excited to announce a visionary Co-Executive Director model that brought three powerful women together to lead our alliance into the future. 

On top of that, CJA transitioned from being a fiscally sponsored project to an independent 501(c)3 organization, all while continuing to do the work we're mandated to do – supporting our members in creating a Just Transition from the dominant extractive economy to localized, regenerative systems. There’s a lot we’re honored to have been a part of, including:

• Earlier this month we held our first member assembly as an independent organization, with over 100 attendees representing 49 organizations, including 28 grassroots base-building groups.
  

• In November we joined our comrades in It Takes Roots and supported a delegation of frontline leaders to COP26 to demand their voices be included and centered in international negotiations.

• Back in May our 5th Annual Just Transition Finance Training brought together 26 members who explored how to finance visionary Just Transition projects in a way that confronts capitalism in their communities.

• Worked with Movement Generation and New Economy Coalition to launch Creative Wildfire, an artistic collaboration resisting a “return to normal” after the pandemic, because normal is what got us into this mess in the first place.

• Our team surveyed, and led in-depth interviews with, our members to inform a strategic planning process that will create a ten year strategy for the alliance so we can collectively navigate the rest of this crisis decade.
  

If you've already given to CJA this year, that is part of what you've supported. Thank you. If you haven't, you still have a chance to support this work into the new year. Please donate to Climate Justice Alliance today.

With gratitude,

Climate Justice Alliance Board of Director Co-Chairs

Elizabeth Yeampierre (UPROSE) & Mateo Nube (Movement Generation)