Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
Tara Marchant is an experienced leader in community advocacy and sustainable development, currently serving as the Director of the Emerald Cities Oakland Collaborative since January 2011. In this role, Tara focuses on retrofitting urban areas to achieve environmental benefits, provide quality training and job opportunities, promote asset building for local businesses, and enhance equity for low-income neighborhoods. As the Founder and Principal of Pure Performance since 2006, Tara excels in strategy development, coalition building, and team management. Previously, as Program Manager at Greenlining from 2007 to 2010, Tara established the Green Assets Program, facilitating educational initiatives and advocacy for minority businesses and low-income communities in California’s climate policy landscape. Tara holds a degree from Yale University and completed a Permaculture Design Certificate at the Permaculture Design Institute in 2010, alongside training from the Coaches Training Institute.
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Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that advances racial, economic, and climate justice to build communities that are more equitable, economically just, and sustainable. Headquartered in Washington, DC, ECC implements replicable place-based strategies in community and worker power building, economic inclusion, and equitable implementation in five regions (Northwest, Northern California, Southern California, Northeast, and D.C./Maryland/Virginia) and select cities throughout the US. Additionally, ECC’s national Civic Infrastructure and Strategic Initiatives provide a broad range of policy capacity, program leadership, coalition building, and technical assistance to community-based organizations, government, and more. PURPOSE: Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) centers and collaborates with frontline communities, especially communities of color, to ensure that they are at the forefront of decision-making, that they benefit from the economic opportunities of the transition to clean energy, and that climate investments are driven back to those communities. MISSION: Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) advances racial, economic, and climate justice to build communities that are more equitable, economically just, and sustainable through replicable strategies in community and worker powerbuilding, economic inclusion, and equitable implementation. VISION: We envision healthy, sustainable, powerful, and thriving communities, especially communities of color.