Youth Climate Lab

• what do they do

Provide youth with skills, financial support, and policy knowledge in order to aid in the fight against climate change.

• who’s their audience

Young stem people looking to help with climate change and create a climate-resilient future

• what’s their approaches

Radical collaboration, providing youth with the 3 things they believe are necessary to creating just, climate-resilient futures: policy knowledge, financial support, and necessary skills.

• what’s their current program/project

https://www.youthclimatelab.org/impact

Two programs: Cohorts and Collectives

Cohorts: Four to eight-month fellowship-style programs for participants to build the skills, knowledge and relationships they need to become lifelong climate leaders.

Collectives: Large-scale, multi-partner initiatives focused on creating the enabling conditions, such as finance, connections, and knowledge, to scale youth-led climate action.

• whats their organizational structure

One executive, 6 managers. A board of directors who likely has significant influence on their actions, as well as a group of “associates” that are likely companies/scientists that they partner with. There seem to be no people older than 40 anywhere in their organizational structure.

• who fund them

Hard to say, likely some crowdfunding and the majority is a mix of government grants and private donations

• what else stands out

They have an excellent “Impact” page, which shows everything that they’ve done in a way that inflates their sense of success to the viewer. It’s very flattering and well done/persuasive. They also have a blog page that is similar to our wiki page but not as cool.

 

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Overall, YCl is a great example of what we should try to emulate. They have three core approaches to their mission of teaching policy knowledge, skills, and providing financial support/knowledge. They involve the community as much as they can, and essentially do the same as us, break down barriers to human flourishing, but their flourishing is a future where the planet doesn’t hate us.