North Carolina Climate Justice Collective

Resiliency Hubs: NCCJC advanced climate justice organizing through its five regional Resiliency Organizing Hubs, which convened monthly in-person and statewide virtual sessions, as well as quarterly leadership retreats. Hub programming prioritized strategic alignment, healing justice practices, and nonviolent civil defense in response to intensifying political pressures on frontline communities. The organization launched its inaugural year-long Winning the World We Want Apprenticeship (W4A) program, through which 20 BIPOC emerging organizers completed training across three tracks: energy justice organizing, food justice organizing, and cooperative business development. NCCJC also facilitated national training partnerships with Yes!, Native Movement, Climate Justice Alliance, and the Southeast Climate and Energy Network (SCEN), sharing its Resiliency Organizing Hub model and 4Rs of Social Transformation framework. The organization co-organized and co-facilitated the 7th Healing Our Movement Ecosystem Jam, a week-long convening for 25 environmental and climate leaders from across the United States.

Tap Root: NCCJC rooted its statewide power-building work in arts and cultural strategy. The organization organized its second TapRoot Arts Residency, welcoming 15 BIPOC artists ("artivists") into a year-long program that generates art to catalyze climate justice movement building. The residency launched with a five-day immersion at Lake Logan and produced original work marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene. NCCJC launched its inaugural 4Rs Indie Film Festival, selecting 7 winners from 25 submissions on the theme of just and regenerative futures; films were showcased through a virtual festival and public discussion. The organization anchored cultural strategy for the NC Environmental Justice People's Hearing: Speak Easy, Speak Free, where youth and elders performed the original multimedia show "Finding Our Balance, and Co-Director Connie Leeper facilitated the Mothers of the Environmental Justice Movement ceremony. NCCJC also organized The Art of Us a five-city cultural arts roadshow across Goldsboro, Durham, Fayetteville, Kinston, and Maxton in partnership with Resiliency Hub anchors and PowerUp NC, featuring more than 15 performers, 300 participants, and free distribution of the newly redesigned Inner Resilience toolkit.