RE-AMP's Current 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 connect.
For 2025-2027, RE-AMP will have three issue priorities for 2025-2027:
Cultivating food systems that nourish land, reduce emissions, and improve livelihoods while resisting consolidated control by industrial farms. Members can connect via the Ag & Food Systems Hub.
- Advance climate friendly national agriculture policy: Build a base of support in the Midwest for national policy that reduces emissions, improves land health, and increases equity and justice for producers
- Elevate models of regenerative agriculture: Build a base of evidence at the local and state levels for practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase soil and water health.
- Strengthen local economies for greater food security: Build pathways and reduce barriers for local markets, land access, and supply chain infrastructure.
Contact Conor Cusack at conor@reamp.org
Supporting the production and consumption of energy that is clean, affordable, and efficient. Our members will be setting focus areas in the first part of 2025, but current areas of work include: regulatory engagement; hydrogen; rural electric co-ops; data centers; and energy democracy. Members can connect by joining the Energy Hub.
Contact Vanessa Pacheco at vanessa@reamp.org
Enabling people to get where they need to go without having to drive, and making motorized transportation cleaner. Members can connect via the Transportation Hub
- Leveraging local climate plans to ensure transportation and land use planning promotes policies that are good for people and the climate.
- Leveraging federal funding for transit, active transportation, and other tools to enable people to get where they need to go without having to drive.
- Creating moratoria on highway expansions, and re-connecting communities.
Contact Vanessa Pacheco at vanessa@reamp.org
Power Building and Organizing
For 2025-2027, power building and organizing will be a programmatic priority, meaning we will dedicate time, energy and resources to support work in this area. Contact Conor Cusack at conor@reamp.org
In service of achieving our North Star goal, RE-AMP operationalizes our priorities in these primary ways:
- Grantmaking. State-level Collaboration grants, Action Teams, and grants through our Strategic Opportunities Fund align with our Network priorities.
- Collaboration infrastructure. Our infrastructure for collaboration (e.g. Hubs) seeks to connect members, build capacity, and provide space for collective strategy setting in service of our network priorities.
- Partnership development. We develop partnerships with other networks, coalitions, and organizations working on these priorities to increase information flow, limit redundancy, avoid working at cross purposes across the movement, and grow our collective impact.