5th Massachusetts Green Career Conference Presentation: Green Nonprofits

1. TOXICS ACTION CENTER
Megan Stokes, Development Director

2. OURVISION
We believe everyone has the
right to drink clean water,
breathe clean air, and live in
healthy, sustainable
communities.
We envision a New England that is filled with legions of
savvy activists working to make these rights a reality.

3. OUR MISSION
Toxics Action Center’s
mission is to work side-
by-side with communities,
providing you with the
skills and resources
needed to prevent or clean up pollution at the local
level.

4. Community Organizing Assistance
Networking
Experts and
Information
RESOURCES WE PROVIDETO COMMUNITIES

5. STAFFING STRUCTURE - LEADERSHIP
Organizing
Directors
State
Directors
Executive
Director
Development
Director

6. OTHER STAFF
Administrator
&Web Devo
NH
Community
Organizer
ME
Community
Organizer
VT
Community
Organizer
Interns

7. JACKS OF ALLTRADES
Three Realms of how we think about our
work. And all staff take part in all realms.
Organization
Fundraising
Program

8. MOVING PAST DIRTY ENERGY
Retiring the last coal-fired plants
in New England: Somerset
Station, Salem Harbor, Mt.Tom,
Brayton Point, Bridgeport
Station, and Bow, Portsmouth.
Retiring nuclear energy:Vermont
Yankee and Pilgrim.
Stopping new fossil fuel plants:
Westfield oil and gas, Wiscasset
Coal, and Harpswell LNG
And more!

9. PREVENTING PESTICIDE SPRAYS
Stopped industry’s attempts to roll-
back the Connecticut Safe School
Grounds Law
Passed town-land pesticide-free
policies in Camden and Scarborough,
Maine
Preventing NSTAR’s plans to spray the
Cape

10. GETTINGTO ZEROWASTE
Massachusetts adopts zero waste
principles in it’s new solid waste master
plan.
Closure of habitually polluting landfills
in Moretown,VT and South Hadley,
Mass.
Preventing new incinerators across the
Commonwealth.
Retiring the Biddeford and Claremont
incinerators.

11. MAJOR PRIORITIESTHISYEAR
Retiring Coal
Oil and gas pipelines
Pesticide Sprays
Recycling v. Incinerators

12. CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
Connecticut Organizer
Western Mass.
Organizer
Organizing Director
Maine State Director
Administrator/Web
Organizational Intern
Media Intern
Event Intern
Safe School Grounds
Intern

13. WHATWE LOOK FOR
Smarts
Leadership
Politics
Right combo of poise and grit

14. WHY DO NON-PROFIT WORK?
Work with passionate, amazing people
Learning and being challenged
Making a tangible impact on the world

15.  Megan Stokes Toxics Action Center Development Director
 megan@toxicsaction.org 617/747-4363