SOCAN: Group reaches for a new level of climate action

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Organization, which promotes awareness of global warming science, launches a fund drive to hire an executive director to boost its strength

By Alan Journet Ashland.News September 14th 2023

Eleven years ago, among the wide array of local nonprofits in Southern Oregon, something was missing. SOCAN was the first organization to step in to fill the void in the grassroots climate action arena.

For over a decade, SOCAN (Southern Oregon Climate Action Now) volunteers have dedicated themselves to accomplishing its mission of promoting awareness and understanding of the science of global warming and its climate change consequences and, within the framework of promoting social justice, to motivate individual and collective action to address it.

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