Our Strategic Priorities

Every three years, the RE-AMP Network comes together to set our strategic priorities. These priorities are where we concentrate our efforts to deliver the Three C’s of RE-AMP– Connections, Co-Creating Strategy, and Capacity Building. Members who are logged in can join our hubs. Non-members, who want to collaborate in a hub, can reach out to a RE-AMP staff person to learn more about how to connected.

Supporting food and agriculture systems that nourish the land and pull carbon from the air. Main areas of focus include:

  1. Elevating promising models of regenerative agriculture from around the Midwest with an emphasis on supporting young/BIPOC farmers
  2. Limiting growth of CAFOs and limiting methane outputs from agricultural systems
  3. Working collectively on the 2023 Farm Bill to reduce agricultural emissions and promote sustainable agriculture

For more information contact Conor Cusack at conor@reamp.org

Getting fossil fuels out of buildings to ensure affordable, healthy, comfortable places to live, work, play, and pray. Main areas of focus include:

  1. Energy efficiency policies and measures that center the needs of low-income and BIPOC communities 
  2. Equitable building electrification, especially in rural areas

For more information contact Vanessa Pacheco at vanessa@reamp.org

Investing in community-driven solutions to create energy system transformation toward clean and democratically owned energy. Main areas of focus include:

  1. Building community-owned power and taking back member power in Rural Electric Co-ops
  2. Liberating people from utility debt
  3. Working against corporate monopolies in energy markets
  4. Supporting models for democratically controlled and locally produced clean energy
Erica Flores

For more information contact Erica Flores at erica@reamp.org

Integrated Voter Engagement

Ensuring people have access to and participate in democratic processes. Main areas of focus include:

  1. Expanding leadership and engagement in BIPOC communities
  2. Building capacity for grassroots influence on public officials
  3. Voter registration and mobilization

For more information contact Conor Cusack at conor@reamp.org

Enabling people to get where they need to go without having to drive, and making motorized transportation cleaner. Main areas of focus are:

  1. Leveraging local climate plans to ensure transportation and land use planning promotes policies that are good for people and the climate. 
  2. Leveraging federal funding for transit, active transportation, and other tools to enable people to get where they need to go without having to drive.
  3. Creating moratoria on highway expansions, and re-connecting communities. 

For more information contact Vanessa Pacheco at vanessa@reamp.org