Clean Air’s Membership Team

Hello! This post comes directly from Clean Air’s Membership Team… Sue Kelley, Gary Schulenberg, Rob Walsh, Jenn Carman, and Julia White.

Three years ago, we established our Membership Team. Well, we started as the Fundraising Team, but quickly decided that “fundraising” really didn’t encapsulate or do justice to the work that we were actually doing. Yes, we agree… money funds our work, but we believe that it can be so much more than that. Money can actually be a part of how we organize for a better world.

At Clean Air, we are in the business of building a movement
for justice that cannot be defunded, broken or stopped.

That’s why Clean Air’s Membership Team is building out Clean Air’s grassroots movement for health and justice. We bolster the work of the Battaglia, Tesla, Tonawanda Coke, Huntley, and American Axle Teams by creating intentional and welcoming space for people in our community and beyond to join us as we reimagine a world that works for all of us.

In a world where the strength of our people and our commitment to our shared liberation is everything, we refuse to be divided. We are rewriting our own story about money. For Clean Air, fundraising is part and parcel of our organizational identity. Who we are and what we believe specifically informs how we approach fundraising.

Because we know that when we fund our work from the ground up, we not only ensure that we maintain power over the decisions we make and the actions we take, but that if we raise this money through authentic and honest conversations, we are also building the community and the collective power necessary to win.

We are so proud of the work that we have done so far. We have created Clean Air’s first ever Membership Handbook, hosted Growing Strong Together: An Open House to Root our Power, created Membership resources on our website, and have had hundreds of conversations with our friends, family, and comrades.

With more than 40% of our 2020 budget projected to come directly from grassroots Members and Supporters, we know that we are building a movement that is stronger, more creative and more resilient than our enemies could have ever imagined.

And so we invite you to join us as we laugh with each other, cry with each other, and have one another’s backs as we reimagine a world that works for all of us.

Sign up as a Member or Supporter today and join our movement for justice!