Welcome to the State Environmental Leadership Program
The State Environmental Leadership Program (SELP) is a staff-supported network of independent environmental activist organizations that focus on state level policy to preserve, protect and enhance the natural and human environment, and the health and quality of life for all people.
Our Mission:
SELP protects and restores America's environment by strengthening and networking smart, powerful and well run state environmental advocacy organizations.
Our Vision:
Every state will have at least one state policy organization that is smart, powerful and well run:
Smart: strategically guided; clearly defined and followed mission; active and engaged board; cultural competency
Powerful: no significant environmental decision is made in a state without our group’s knowledge and consent.
Well run: effective financial tools and management, effective personnel management tools, competitive staff compensation, diverse and stable funding.
"To achieve comprehensive improvements to environmental policies in America, you must have strong, state-focused environmental groups. SELP helps make that happen."
- Adam Snyder, Conservaion Alabama
2012 Salary and Benefits Survey
This year, SELP will be conducting our annual Salary and Benefits survey to help you find out detailed information about parental leave, sabbaticals, and health insurance in the workplace. In addition to providing insight into different office policies regarding types of leave and health benefits, this report will also help you compare your organization’s salary and benefits with others in the region and across the country doing similar work. This survey ensures that you can make salary and benefits decisions based on data from organizations that look a lot like yours: state-level environmental advocacy organizations.
The survey is available through March 7, 2012 and participating organizations will recieve a free copy of the report. Click here to participate.
25th Annual SELP Conference
This year's conference will take place in beautiful Lake Tahoe.
When? November 14-17, 2012
Where? Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA
For any questions regarding this year's conference, please contact Executive Director, Melissa Gavin: mgavin@selp.org
Member News:
» Georgia Consumer Choice Bill Would Boost Economic Opportunities
02/22/12 16:22 from CleanEnergy Footprints
Georgia Power and Southern Company are up to their dirty tricks again, this time blocking the development of clean renewable energy and using their monopoly power to hold Georgia economic development back! A bipartisan bill in Georgia that.. Read More...
» Largest Remaining Investor Still Stuck In Plant Washington Boondoggle
02/22/12 10:16 from CleanEnergy Footprints
At the February 16 meeting of its Board of Directors, Snapping Shoals EMC had a chance to do the right thing and end its involvement in developing two new coal-fired power plants in Georgia. It did not. Snapping Shoals Electric Membership .. Read More...
» 'Takings' Bill Would Reward Big Landowners at Taxpayers' Expense
02/21/12 22:00 from Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)
CAMDEN — During the late 1950s and early 1960s, my father often took me spring fishing on weekends. Occasionally, we'd travel north from our Waterville home to the Upper Kennebec River Valley to fish for brook trout on Wyman Lake R.. Read More...
» Hours of Testimony Heard on Both Sides of Controversial Takings Law
02/21/12 22:00 from Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)
AUGUSTA, Maine — It seemed as if decades of simmering frustrations over Maine’s private property rights and environmental regulations came to a boil Tuesday afternoon during a public hearing on a controversial takings bill at th.. Read More...
» Transportation Bill is Bad Drilling Policy
02/21/12 11:01 from CleanEnergy Footprints
This post was co-authored by Simon Mahan and Jennifer Rennicks. Last week’s passage of the U.S. House of Representatives' transportation bill deserves a brief mention on the blog today if for no other reason than to help folks save .. Read More...
» Sides Line Up in Renewables Debate
02/20/12 22:00 from Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)
A referendum to double Maine's standard for new renewable electricity generation will not be on the ballot in 2012 — but the battle lines are already forming for its likely appearance next year.A coalition of business, environmental, .. Read More...
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