A curated list of climate organizations with opportunities for youth
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San Francisco Bay Area residents working to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.
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Bay Area
Climate Education, Sustainable Practices, Policy
Acterra
Their mission is to bring people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet.
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Bay Area
Climate Education, Sustainable Practices, Policy
Bay Area Youth Climate Summit
The Bay Area Youth Climate Summit brings together high school students from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond to connect over climate justice and activism. They offer support, guidance, and resources for youth to build a climate action plan with a group of like-minded students that they can implement in their school or community.
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San Francisco
Youth Led, Sustainable Practices, Climate Education, Environmental Justice
Bay Area Youth Lobbying Initiative
They are a student-based organization which centers around empowering individuals to affect long-term climate policy. They are dedicated to galvanizing students into getting involved in democracy: bridging the divide between activists and elected officials, and creating long-term change in the climate and environmental policies that will affect our generation.
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Bay Area
Youth Led, Policy
Canopy
Their mission is to grow an urban tree canopy in Mid-peninsula communities for the benefit of all.
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Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park
Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Education
Citizens Climate Lobby
They are working for the passage of carbon fee and dividend legislation, the climate change solution economists and climate scientists alike say is the “best first-step” to preventing the worst impacts of a warming world.
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Bay Area + National
Policy, Climate Education
Climate Resilient Communities
A community-based organization empowering community voices to implement equitable climate solutions for unity, resilience, and justice
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Bay Area
Environmental Justice, Climate Education, Policy
Enterprise for Youth
Empowering young people to prepare for and discover career opportunities.
Climate Career Corps - A multi-year program that prepares youth for the workplace while developing green skills through education, work experience, and mentorship.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Environmental Justice, Climate Education, Ecosystem Education
Grassroots Ecology
Grassroots Ecology leverages the power of volunteers to create healthy lands across Silicon Valley. They restore native plants to open spaces and neighborhoods, steward creeks and watersheds, and provide hands-on nature education.
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San Francisco to Santa Clara
Sustainable Practices, Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Education
Matter of Trust
To link surplus with needs and encourage optimism and trust in nature’s abundant cycles.
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Bay Area + Global
Sustainable practices, Climate education, Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Education
SMC Youth Climate Ambassadors Program
The Youth Climate Ambassadors (YCA) Leadership Program provides 9-12th grade students in San Mateo County with the opportunity to dive into social and environmental issues contributing to the global climate crisis.
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San Mateo
Climate Education, Sustainable Practices
Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action
SVYCA is a youth-led nonprofit that empowers teens and young adults to combat climate change with impactful education and policy initiatives.
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Bay Area
Youth Led, Policy, Climate Education
Sunrise
Their mission is to mobilize youth in Silicon Valley as part of a growing national movement to demand sweeping, decisive climate action from local, state, national, and ultimately, world leaders to ensure a livable future through legislative change at all levels.
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Bay Area + National
Youth Led, Policy, Marches
Youth United for Community Action
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) is a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color, the majority from low-income communities, providing a safe space for young people to empower themselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing.
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East Palo Alto
Youth Led, Environmental Justice, Climate Education, Marches
Youth vs. Apocalypse
Youth Vs. Apocalypse is a diverse group of young climate justice activists working together to lift the voices of youth and fight for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.
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Bay Area
Policy, Climate Education, Youth Led, Environmental Justice, Marches