2026-06-08T11:07:33-07:00 2025-12-31 333667764 Orion Accounting and Finance LLC 10520 Chapel Hill Rd Unit 332 Morrisville NC 27560 990 2025-01-01 872961785 North Carolina Climate Justice Collective NORT 2526551401 PO Box 15422 Durham NC 27704 Gregg Lasseter CFO 2026-06-08 true Mika Ramon EA P02274514 9193378581 X 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z PO Box 15422 Durham NC 27704 1062088 false X www.ncclimatejustice.org X 2021 NC The NC Climate Justice Collective cultivates a multi-racial, intergenerational grassroots 8 0 5 0 448906 932568 21103 102912 12773 20660 2991 5948 485773 1062088 0 0 195664 411030 0 0 405288 689897 600952 1100927 -115179 -38839 914719 885332 204205 7995 710514 877337 X movement ecosystem to address the root causes of climate change. Using popular education and cultural organizing, we ignite social transformation. We center all our work in the leadership of youth, Black, Indigenous and people of color, women, low wealth people, and LGBTQI+ people to create strategic alignment. We are bringing an end to fracked gas infrastructure, coal ash pollution, industrial agriculture and forest destruction while planting the seeds of a life-sustaining, regenerative society. false false 316906 Resiliency Hubs: NCCJC advanced climate justice organizing through its five regional Resiliency Organizing Hubs, which convened monthly in-person and statewide virtual sessions, as well as quarterly leadership retreats. Hub programming prioritized strategic alignment, healing justice practices, and nonviolent civil defense in response to intensifying political pressures on frontline communities. The organization launched its inaugural year-long Winning the World We Want Apprenticeship (W4A) program, through which 20 BIPOC emerging organizers completed training across three tracks: energy justice organizing, food justice organizing, and cooperative business development. NCCJC also facilitated national training partnerships with Yes!, Native Movement, Climate Justice Alliance, and the Southeast Climate and Energy Network (SCEN), sharing its Resiliency Organizing Hub model and 4Rs of Social Transformation framework. The organization co-organized and co-facilitated the 7th Healing Our Movement Ecosystem Jam, a week-long convening for 25 environmental and climate leaders from across the United States. 149828 Tap Root: NCCJC rooted its statewide power-building work in arts and cultural strategy. The organization organized its second TapRoot Arts Residency, welcoming 15 BIPOC artists ("artivists") into a year-long program that generates art to catalyze climate justice movement building. The residency launched with a five-day immersion at Lake Logan and produced original work marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene. NCCJC launched its inaugural 4Rs Indie Film Festival, selecting 7 winners from 25 submissions on the theme of just and regenerative futures; films were showcased through a virtual festival and public discussion. The organization anchored cultural strategy for the NC Environmental Justice People's Hearing: Speak Easy, Speak Free, where youth and elders performed the original multimedia show "Finding Our Balance, and Co-Director Connie Leeper facilitated the Mothers of the Environmental Justice Movement ceremony. NCCJC also organized The Art of Us a five-city cultural arts roadshow across Goldsboro, Durham, Fayetteville, Kinston, and Maxton in partnership with Resiliency Hub anchors and PowerUp NC, featuring more than 15 performers, 300 participants, and free distribution of the newly redesigned Inner Resilience toolkit. 93025 Convenings: NCCJC convened its 7th annual NC Climate Justice Summit in Brown Summit, NC, gathering 250 youth and adults around the theme "Just Recovery for All." The Summit featured more than 30 workshops led by five intergenerational Resiliency Organizing Hub teams, Just Recovery strategy sessions with grassroots leaders from Puerto Rico, the Gulf South, the Mariana Islands, and California, and community-building programming including an open mic night and healing space. NCCJC also organized the inaugural Durham Solar Festival at Lyons Farm Elementary School in partnership with school administration, drawing more than 175 participants. Festival programming featured NCCJC's original interactive performance The Good Fire an allegory about clean energy alongside hands-on solar exhibits, youth competitions including a solar car race and solar oven bake-off, and arts engagement activities. These convenings advanced NCCJC's mission of building community-led pathways to a just energy transition and strengthened connective tissue between frontline communities in eastern and western North Carolina. 7920 Trainings & Facilitations: NCCJC designs and leads customized, interactive, and culturally relevant training informed by the wisdom and experience of our communities. We work with municipalities, non-governmental groups, non-profits, grassroots groups, and statewide networks to embrace climate justice principles and catalyze just action in response to climate change.? Workshops We Offer Free to Community-Based Groups: Beyond Disaster Relief- Strategies for Just Recovery, Intro to Climate Justice & Climate Adaptation Planning, From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: Resilience Skills for Personal, Communal & Ecological Well-being, Igniting the Regenerative Economy 7920 567679 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 5 false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 8 0 true false false false false false false true false false false true false true false false true false X Gregg Lasseter 2526551401 1002 Walker Field Dr Rougemont NC 275728491 Jodi Lasseter Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 98639 0 0 Connie Leeper Executive Dir. 30.00 0.00 X 77347 0 0 Christopher D Massenburg 40.00 0.00 70918 0 0 Kristal Suggs 40.00 0.00 70694 0 0 Samantha Jackson 40.00 0.00 38260 0 0 Ayo Wilson Chairman 10.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Omari Wilson Trustee 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Donna Chavis Trustee 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Ortiz Trustee 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Alecia Gaines Trustee 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gregg Lasseter CFO 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 355858 0 false false false 0 932568 932568 TRAININGS 611710 102912 102912 102912 20660 20660 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miscellaneous Income 5948 5948 5948 1062088 108860 20660 0 0 0 0 366159 151146 215013 0 0 8014 5001 3013 2531 762 1769 34326 20270 14056 0 0 27315 27315 0 0 0 1441 1441 54634 54634 1170 1170 0 0 16269 16269 18678 18678 0 0 0 0 233 233 3420 3420 Contractors 199378 104075 95303 Resiliency Organization Hubs 156305 156305 Tap Root Cultural Troup 58053 58053 Convenings 54094 54094 98907 17973 80934 1100927 567679 533248 0 874511 130332 651989 0 3731 0 0 0 0 0 108567 1098 584 107469 0 0 0 0 39624 -8189 914719 885332 6997 204205 998 204205 7995 X 710514 877337 710514 877337 914719 885332 -38839 205662 X false false false X 600756 950759 717521 448906 891000 3608942 0 0 0 0 600756 950759 717521 448906 891000 3608942 0 0 3608942 293 5021 18002 12773 36089 0 293 5021 18002 12773 36089 0 0 601049 955780 735523 461679 891000 3645031 0.99010 0.00990 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 100000 100000 8567 1098 7469 107469 998 998 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Two of the voting members are brothers. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b No review was or will be conducted. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public. Part XI, Line 3 The difference of $205,895 on Part XI, Line 3 represents prior year bookkeeping errors identified during preparation of this return. Approximately $187,301 relates to amounts incorrectly recorded as deferred revenue in the prior year that were either returned to payors or recognized as current year revenue without proper prior year correction. The remaining difference relates to unidentified prior year entries. The organization's books have been provided as-is and no audit or cleanup was performed under this engagement. The preparer has relied on management-provided financials.