Agency Details:

State Environmental Leadership Program

The State Environmental Leadership Program helps our members become smarter, more powerful and better run so that they can be better advocates for the environment.

Description:
State environmental policy groups play a vital role in safeguarding our air, land and water now and for future generations. Across the nation these groups face similar challenges and share common strengths. SELP makes them smarter, more powerful and better run. Our work creates a stronger movement and leads to a healthier environment and a better quality of life.

We do this through several core programs and services. Our annual conference, our grasstops/federal budget campaign, our Healthy Organization Initiative and our member services, which include peer to peer mentoring, trainings, list-serves and peer networking. For more information on these programs and services, visit our webpage at http://www.selp.org

History:
The State Environmental Leadership Program (SELP) began in 1988 as an informal conference of Executive Directors from nineteen state environmental councils. Attendees, some of them for the first time, had the opportunity to meet colleagues who were facing the same challenges they were as an Executive Director of a state level environmental organization. The casual atmosphere together with intelligent discussion, expert-led workshops and camaraderie has brought environmental leaders back year after year. Now in its twenty-second year, the conference continues to give attendees a chance to network with their peers, discuss current environmental challenges, and receive support, feedback and fresh perspectives from their colleagues.

In 1998, at the request of our member groups, SELP transitioned from a once a year environmental leadership conference to a staffed organization with a mission to make our member groups more successful.

Membership in SELP has grown to more than forty members in thirty-five states, but our goal of supporting these valuable organizations and protecting the nation’s environment by making state activist groups smarter, more powerful and better run remains the same.

Contact people:

Melissa Gavin, (608) 268-1440, (email) Hilary Carroll, (608) 268-1440, (email) Bill Davis, Executive Director, (608) 268-1440, (email)

Office fax number: (608) 268-1444

Address:

612 W. Main Street, Suite 302 Madison, WI 53703 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.selp.org

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Last updated on August 31, 2009