Sierra Business Council

Proposition 4 passes! 🙌👏 Thank you California voters for making critical investments to prevent wildfires, provide clean and safe drinking water, and protect California's future. With the growing threats of climate change, safeguarding our communities by building climate resilience has never been more urgent! Now we need to work together to deploy this critical funding on the ground in the Sierra. Curious on how this will work? Reach out to us at advocacy@sierrabusiness.org

SBC is hosting a free in-person contractor training covering heat pump installations in the Truckee Tahoe region! Through this training, local contractors will learn about heat pump HVAC and water heating installations in cold, snowy climates, as well as view locally completed heat pump projects all led by an experienced trainer and contractor. To save your spot, RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gGiQdY_A

Join SBC in voting Yes on Prop 4. This important bond will help prevent wildfire, provide clean drinking water, and protect California. With the election already underway (check the mailbox for your ballot!), now is the time to vote YES on Proposition 4 to prevent wildfires and protect California’s unique natural lands and water sources. For more than two years, SBC’s Government Affairs team and our partners have worked with the drafters of this ballot initiative to ensure that it delivers on the priorities and needs of the Sierra Nevada region. Prop 4 would make investments now to stave off disaster in the years ahead. It would front-load projects such as brush-clearing, forest restoration, and controlled burns that can help contain future wildfires before they explode into uncontrolled disasters. Prop 4 also contains funding to protect natural lands, build clean energy infrastructure, create parks & green space, and help small and medium farms conserve water and improve soil health. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4Zkt2qq

We're #hiring two program assistants! These entry-level positions are a great foot in the door for mission/values-driven team members who want to work on issues affecting the Sierra Nevada region. To apply, read the instructions listed here: https://lnkd.in/gfitKqNB Program Assistant, Economic Empowerment: The Program Assistant will provide administrative assistance to SBC’s Director of Economic Empowerment, the  Economic Empowerment team, and the Sierra Jobs First team and will assist with achieving program/project goals.  This position requires an organized, reliable, and motivated individual with excellent communication skills who will be responsible for a range of tasks including supporting outreach, research, and communication efforts; building relationships with key stakeholders; ensuring inclusivity in convening processes; attending, taking minutes and helping with the facilitation of monthly meetings; tracking participation and response rates for community engagement activities; assisting with research for grant applications; coordinating community outreach events; and various administrative functions supporting SBC’s Economic Empowerment and Sierra Jobs First teams. Program Assistant, Government Affairs: The Program Assistant will provide administrative assistance to SBC’s President and Director of Government and  Community Affairs and will assist with advancing and executing the Organization’s full range of policy and advocacy initiatives in issue areas such as natural resources, climate and energy, housing, economic development, and rural issues. This position requires an organized, reliable, and motivated individual with excellent communication and critical thinking skills who will be responsible for a wide range of tasks including coordinating events; legislative and policy tracking, research, and analysis; supporting policy working groups; drafting written products and materials;  assisting with project management; and various administrative functions supporting SBC’s President, the  Government and Community Affairs team, and the Organization. 

Forestry Entrepreneurs - Join us in Sonora on November 16 & 17! Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gKZP29PJ

SBC has been an active member of the ARCCA: Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation since the development of our Sierra-wide climate collaborative, Sierra CAMP, and has benefitted greatly from ARCCA's influence in climate adaptation work at the state level. ARCCA represents leading collaborative networks from across California striving to build regional resilience to climate impacts by sharing best practices and resources, identifying strategies to overcome key barriers and challenges, and conducting joint campaigns and projects. ARCCA is undergoing a strategic visioning process to identify how we can continue to be impactful in today's climate adaptation environment. To understand ARCCA's value and potential to its members and network, ARCCA created a short, ten-minute survey to collect feedback from climate adaptation practitioners across the state. Help shape how this statewide effort can support climate action here in the Sierra by taking this survey before October 25! Survey Link:

Congrats to our partners at Sierra Commons for this great write up, and thanks for highlighting the Forest Entrepreneurship course. We can't wait to see what entrepreneurs do with the skills from this class, including this student highlighted in the write up: "Stephanie Williams took the Forest Entrepreneur Training course earlier this year. Recently the developer of a project she has been involved with for a decade, the Forest Biomass Business Center, was awarded $15.3 million from the Yuba Watershed Agency to construct a community-scale five-megawatt biomass-to-energy power plant. “Now that the plant will be built, I get to focus my time on the tools and resources afforded me through the Forest Entrepreneur Training to build out our business campus,” said Williams." Congrats to Stephanie and our friends at Sierra Commons!

We're hiring! Are you an experienced professional in the Climate & Energy space? Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gu5-C6in Position Highlights: - Location: Primarily remote, with occasional meetings in the SIerra Nevada. Preference for qualified individuals located in the SBC service territory (Sierra Nevada) or adjacent counties. Flexibility and work-life balance are highly valued. - This position will work on the Climate & Energy (C&E) Team, with a focus on the proposed Rural Regional Energy Network North (RRENN) program and the Sierra Nevada Energy Watch (SNEW) program, but may include other C&E programming, such as the Truckee-Tahoe Building Decarbonization Program (TTBDP) and the Climate Transformation Alliance (CTA). - 10+ years of project implementation experience, 3+ years of experience with program management (from design to implementation) of REN and/or utility projects, 3+ years of directly supervising staff, leading high-performing teams, 3+ years of working on energy efficiency measures and rebates