Organizations Filed Purposes:
The CEC's mission is to foster education, dialogue and collaboration on environmental issues in the Houston/Gulf Coast region.
Green Films: CEC has grown its green films program from a one-night, sold out, on tour 2015 showing of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on tour festival into the Green Films and Festivals Program. The program comprises two annual festivals--the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Tour and the Wild about Houston Green Film Festival--plus the Houston Green Film Series, which is a monthly screening of an environmental film followed by a pannel discussion, CEC is increasingly able to use this program to highlight local environmental stories. Over 1,100 people attended CEC film events in 2019.
"Environmental Education "CEC's newest program connects formal and informal educators to increase the quality and quanity of education that is both specific and relevant to the greater Houston/Gulf Coast region. Many local formal and informal, have expressed an interst in teaching about the Greater Houston environment's challenges and its many resources, yet they often teach about other places for due to lack of local knowledge and materials. CEC's education program provide resources to teach about the climate, bayous, sea turtles, water and air quality, prairie chickens and prairies, climate change and nature in our backyard. In 2019 Q3, CEC hired an environmental education specialist to manage this program.
Publications: The CEC manages three websites, four newsletters, and 11 social media channels. These publications all provide information about CEC's activities as well as opportunities to engage with other environmental organizations and issues. Popular content includes information about activites of local environmental organizations, opportunities for public comment, green jobs, green grants, legislative news, local environmental headlines, and the most comprehensive calendar of environmental events in the region. CEC also provides content for specific audiences including educators, green film aficionados and fans of Earth Day. CEC's three websites--cechouston.org, earthdayhouston.org and hereinhouston.org-- attracted 95,000 visits in 2019, an increase of 14% compared to 2018. CEC's newsletters--the weekly Environmental News Update (published in varing forms since 1971), environmental education, green films and EarthDay-- had 5,200 subscribers at the end of 2019: and increase of 11% compared to 2018. The number of followers on CEC's 11 social media channels also increased by about 11% over the course of the year.
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 |
|---|
| Rachel Powers | Executive Director | 32 | $0 |
| Oscar Gil | Principal Officer | 1.5 | $0 |
| Yvonne Harris | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Katie Donovan | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Bruce Bodson | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Jessica Wilt-Navas | Director | 1.5 | $0 |
| Sarah Morath | Secretary | 4.5 | $0 |
| Maurilio Flores Sanchez | Treasurer | 4.5 | $0 |
| Alex Chua | President | 5 | $0 |
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