Partners
Our Community
We are proud to collaborate with organizations that share our commitment to climate action and community resilience. Together, we build practical solutions, amplify local voices, and drive meaningful progress across Oregon.
Oregon Environmental Council
We bring Oregonians together to protect our water, air and land with healthy solutions that work for today and for future generations. Founded in 1968 by concerned Oregonians across the state, we are a membership-based, nonpartisan nonprofit.
Southern Oregon Food Solutions
Our mission is to minimize food waste in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We do this by working in community to educate and inspire action for food.
SOREEL
SOREEL connects organizations and educators that focus on science and environmental education in Southern Oregon to coordinate, share resources.
Solar Oregon
Solar Oregon is a member-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization helping people with their solar journey since 1979.
Rogue Climate
Working together for climate justice in Southern Oregon and the South Coast. Get Involved Take Action Find out what you can do.
Southern Oregon Pachamama Alliance
We are Southern Oregonians inspired by the bold vision of the Pachamama Alliance. The three aspects of our vision are profoundly interconnected.
A Greater Applegate
AGA’s work is guided by local residents who are encouraged to voice their needs, resources, and perspectives through a variety of means.
Sustainable Rogue Valley
Mission. Our mission is to foster a vibrant and resilient community that makes use of sustainable practices, empowers us to share our skills and gifts.
Unete
We offer a variety of community education opportunities including English, Citizenship, Basic Computer Skills and Written Drivers Exam classes.
SOU Sustainability
The Institute for Applied Sustainability is dedicated to bringing together faculty, students, and staff to foster a culture of sustainability.
Jefferson Exchange
The Jefferson Exchange is JPR’s live interactive program devoted to current events and newsmakers from around the region and beyond.
Rogue Basin Partnership
Join the Rogue Basin Partnership and many of your partner organizations for the first annual Network of Networks (NxN) day-long gathering.
Ashland Climate Collaborative
Ashland Climate Collaborative Action Teams are guides — experts in home energy, transportation, composting, water conservation, and climate gatherings.
SubjectToClimate’s Oregon Climate Education Hub
A statewide resource for Oregon educators working toward integration and infusion of K-12 climate change education across all core subject areas.
Why Do We Collaborate?
Partnership is where vision meets momentum. It’s in the exchange of ideas, the lifting of each other’s efforts, and the steady rhythm of collaboration that real change begins. In the climate movement, no one entity can carry the weight alone—progress depends on coalitions that listen, adapt, and act together. At its best, partnership transforms intention into impact, weaving disparate strengths into a fabric strong enough to hold the future.
Business Sponsors
The following businesses have shown themselves to be Climate Champions by supporting the work that SOCAN engages in throughout the valley.
2025 Sips for Sustainability
2024 Sips for Sustainability
Funders
The following foundations have become integral to SOCAN’s continued fiscal sustainability, and have shown us tremendous support in advocating for a sustainable, climate friendly future.
Oregon Raindrop Fund
We invest in municipalities, schools, and nonprofit organizations in order to provide broadband access to underserved communities.
Oregon Community Foundation
Oregon Community Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to improve the lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
The Carpenter Foundation
The purpose of the Carpenter Foundation is to add opportunity, choice, inclusiveness, enrichment, and a climate for change for those living in the Rogue Valley.
Oregon Health Authority
The Oregon Health Authority is a government agency in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Energy Foundation
The Energy Foundation’s mission is to secure a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.
State, National, & International Groups we Align with.
Across the world…
No community can shoulder the climate crisis alone. The systems that pollute our skies, warm our waters, and strain our economies do not recognize county lines or national borders. That’s why organizations—rural and urban, grassroots and institutional—must move beyond silos and toward shared strategy. Collaboration is not charity; it’s necessity. When we link local action to national momentum and global frameworks, we unlock leverage.
State, National, & International Groups
1000 Friends of Oregon
Working with Oregonians to enhance our quality of life by building livable urban and rural communities, protecting family farms and forests, and conserving natural areas.
Audubon Society (Rogue Valley)
Dedicated to opening the eyes of young and old to the beauty of the outdoor world, and to share in conserving its wonders forever.
Citizens Climate Lobby CCL (Southern Oregon Chapter)
Dedicated to empowering individuals to take action on climate change. The current focus is on promoting a Federal Carbon Fee and Dividend program.
Community Energy Project Since 1979 Community Energy Project has worked to fulfill the belief that everyone deserves a safe, healthy, and efficient home, regardless of income.
Coyote Trails Jefferson School of Nature
Educating residents to the natural and unique aspects of the region.
Geos Institute
A nonprofit organization and consulting firm that uses science to help people predict, reduce, and prepare for climate change.
KSWild Climate Program (Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center)
KS Wild’s Climate program is shaping policies and local practices to best prepare the Klamath-Siskiyou region for climate change that threatens the biological diversity and watershed health of the region. Climate impacts in the region include the increased risk of uncharacteristic wildfire, severe summer droughts, and habitat loss for at-risk species.
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Designs and implements ecological restoration projects in damaged forests and watersheds throughout southern Oregon and northern California.
North Mountain Park Nature Center
Promotes greater community awareness, understanding, and enjoyment of the local natural environment, and fosters stewardship through educational programs and activities. we teach our children to fish in, the schools our grandchildren attend.
Rogue Advocates
Dedicated to cultivating livable and sustainable communities in southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley region.
Rogue Riverkeeper
Protecting and restoring water quality and fish populations in the Rogue River Basin and adjacent coastal watersheds through enforcement, advocacy, field work and community action.
Sierra Club, Rogue Group
Dedicated to preserving Southern Oregon’s environment, natural resources, and quality of life.
Siskiyou Uplands Trails Association
To create a community trail system across the Siskiyou upland ridges linking existing trail systems in Ashland and Jacksonville.
Climate Solutions
Building a powerful constituency for local, regional, and national action on climate change and clean energy. One of 18 high impact non-profits working in te field of climate change. Located in Olympia, Seattle, and Portland.
CoolClimate Network
A University – Government – NGO Partnership at the University of California, Berkeley. They have developed Smart Tools for a Cooler Planet, including the calculator used to determine your carbon footprint.
Forth
Forth is changing the way we get around. From one gas-burning car for every driver, to an efficient electric way for all.
Environment Oregon
Citizen members teaming with a professional staff to stand up for places we love and environmental values we share.
Onward Oregon
We are an interconnected and interdependent people. We rise together or fall together as a state, not as individuals. We believe community is vital to rebuilding and revitalizing our state. Our problems are experienced together. So must our solutions be created together.
Oregon Bluegreen Alliance
Developing a groundswell of support in Oregon for action to address climate change and build a renewable energy economy.
Oregon Environmental Council
Safeguards what Oregonians love about Oregon – clean air and water, an unpolluted landscape and healthy food produced by local farmers. Work to create innovative change on three levels: helping individuals live green; helping businesses, farmers, and health providers trve with sustainable practices; and helping elected officials create practical policy.
Oregon League of Conservation Voters (OLCV)
Evaluates activities of the State Government and candidates, endorsing those with a strong conservation record or platform. Produces a legislative scorecard for state candidates.
Oregonians for Renewable Energy
Advancing the transition to locally owned and locally generated clean renewable energy.
Southern Oregon Clean Energy Alliance
Promotes clean energy projects in Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lane, Lake, Jackson, & Josephine Counties with a view to encouraging alternative energy and energy efficiency projects.
350.Org
Building a global movement to solve the climate crisis with a goal of returning Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million from its current 392 ppm.
BlueGreen Alliance
Unites 14 of the nation’s largest unions with environmental organizations in an effort to build a cleaner, fairer, and more competitive U.S. economy.
Carbon Tax Center
Pricing carbon efficiently and Equitably.
Center for Biological Diversity
The center works through science, law and media to secure a future for all species hovering on the brink of extinction.
Citizens Climate Lobby
Creating the political will for a stable climate; empowering individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power. CCL’s primary objective is to enact a federal fee and dividend system to curb carbon emissions. CCL has been endorsed by NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Executive Director and internationally renowned climate scientist: Dr. James Hansen.
Climate Reality Project
Dedicated to unleashing a global cultural movement demanding action on the climate crisis. Al Gore’s organization.
Community Solutions
The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Conservation International
Employs a foundation in science with partnerships and field demonstrations to empower societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.
ConservAmerica
Formed in 1995 as Republicans for Environmental Protection (REPAmerica) to resurrect the GOP’s great conservation tradition and to restore natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection as fundamental elements of the Republican Party’s vision for America; “Conservation is conservative.”
Earthjustice!
Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, takes legal action to promote the redress of environmental problems.
Environmental Defense Fund
Passionate pragmatic environmental advocates who believe in stewardship.
Friends of the Earth
Striving for a more healthy and just world.
Green America
Harnesses economic power — the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace – to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
Green for All
The steps we need to take — from forming climate resilience plans to investing in infrastructure and clean energy — all help expand the green economy.
Green Schools
Our mission is to create Greener & healthier learning environments through Education, Awareness, and Action! We provide a number of Environmental Education programs and resources to help Students, Schools, and Communities make The Green Difference!
Habitable Planet
Offers a systems approach to environmental science in general, including climate change.
League of Conservation Voters
A national non-profit organization that works to turn environmental values into national priorities; assess federal legislative issues and produces a federal legislative scorecard annually evaluating representatives and evaluates candidates for office enrodsing those with strong conservation records or platforms.
Natural Resourced Defense Council
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Senior Attorney. The nation’s most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists, with the courtroom clout and expertise of over 350 lawyers, scientists, and other professionals.
Nature Conservancy
Conserves valued lands and collects stories of those addressing climate changes, offers a carbon calculator, and the Climate Wizard (rainfall and temperature for anywhere in world).
The Solutions Project
Together we can build a stronger economy, healthier families, and a more secure future. 100% clan is 100% possible.
Waterkeeper Alliance
Provides a way for communities to stand up for their right to clean water and for the wise and equitable use of water nationally and globally.
The Wilderness Society
A leading conservation organization protecting the nation’s shared wildlands from well-known icons to hidden gems.
World Wildlife Fund
Works in 100 countries supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. Combines global reach with a foundation in science, involving action at every level from local to global, ensuring the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Working for a healthy environment and a safer world.