Organizations Filed Purposes:
Fossil Free California works to end financial support for climate-damaging fossil fuels and promotes the transition to a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
-Allyship: In addition to our ongoing work with a coalition of state pension fund divestment campaigns and our support of local allies such as 350 Bay Area, we joined the Last Chance Alliance and have been following and amplifying their petition and other initiatives. In January, 2020, we became part of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a US and Canadian coalition of climate finance campaigns. In the wake of the horrific wildfires in California in August and September of 2020, we raised money for Puente de la Costa Sur, a community-based organization providing support services to rural residents and farmworkers on the coast south of Half Moon Bay.-In 2020, we continued our youth activism at CalSTRS for the January 30 Investment Committee meeting. The youth (some covered in molasses) marched from the state Capitol to CalSTRS headquarters, pulling an oil tanker named the Apocalypse.-With the onset of the pandemic, we quickly pivoted to online activism and mounted our first Zoom webinar on March 31, Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis, with Berkeley Prof. Dan Kammen. We followed up with a webinar on April 28 on A Green Recovery and Climate Health Now with our allies from the Climate Health Now coalition of healthcare providers. -For Earth Week Live, Fossil Free California held a virtual art party, and produced a 16-minute segment on Youth + Elders Unite for Climate-Safe Pensions and an hour-long panel discussion for April 23, Climate Finance Day. -We are ramping up our outreach to members of the California Teachers Association. We hosted a webinar for CTA members on June 23, discussing ways that CTA members can get their chapter to pass a divestment resolution. In December, we participated in a national webinar hosted by the National Educators Union, a progressive teachers union, on divestment basics and how to pass a local divestment resolution.-September 14, 2020 was a banner day for Fossil Free California. CalSTRS CIO Chris Ailman said at the Bloomberg Green Forum:. We get protests and public comments at every single meeting from Fossil Free California. And it really comes down to the decision whether you think divestment is going to bring about social change. For us divestment has to be an investment decision Major global recognition for our ongoing divestment work. -Also on September 14, we published our hard-hitting report CalPERS Continues to Invest in Coal, which CalPERS staff took very seriously, publishing a detailed response, and tweeting it to their 80,000 followers. Our message is being heard! Our report was covered in depth by Sharon Kelly in DeSmogBlog, in an article pointing out the irony of a firefighters retirement fund investing in the industry that helps fuel those fires.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Betsy Thagard | | 0 | $0 |
| Christine Shumacher | | 5 | $0 |
| John Orbon | | 0 | $0 |
| Janet Cox | | 0 | $0 |
| Marian Berges | | 0 | $0 |
| Jane Vosburg | Director | 12 | $0 |
| Patrick Costello | Director | 6 | $0 |
| Martha Turner | Director | 6 | $0 |
| Deborah Silvey | Director | 20 | $0 |
| Sara Theiss | Secretary | 6 | $0 |
| Ken Kama | Treasurer | 12 | $0 |
| Sandra Emerson | President | 40 | $0 |
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