Organizer Program - Green Corps

We’re the nation's most respected training program for environmental organizers for over 30 years.

Are you determined to make the biggest positive impact you can on issues like climate change and clean water, but you don’t know where to start? Green Corps offers a yearlong, paid training program that gives you the training and experience you need to kickstart your organizing career while making an immediate impact on critical environmental issues. Through a unique combination of classroom instruction and field experience, you’ll learn how to recruit and train volunteers, develop strategic campaigns, build strong coalitions, organize events, gain media coverage and more. This will provide the foundation you need to launch a career to save the planet. Here’s how it works:

LEARN SKILLS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS

To make an impact, you need training. We provide top-notch, unparalleled training in the skills of organizing and advocacy to help you launch a lifetime career of impact.

Our staff and trainers provide context on the biggest issues facing our environment and train on specific proven organizing strategies and tactics. Topics include volunteer recruitment, campaign planning, public speaking and much more. You’ll learn how to run campaigns that inspire the public and build organizations and political support needed to save our planet. You will also receive ongoing mentorship from Green Corps staff and alumni and Public Interest Network staff throughout the year to assist with your campaign work and professional development.

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE ON REAL CAMPAIGNS

Starting each August, Green Corps packs extensive experience into one year, with organizers working on at least three issue campaigns in different locations and learning how to organize a wide range of communities — from students and young people, to broader communities, and you will learn how to run a canvass office that educates the public, builds support, and fundraises for top environmental and public interest organizations.

You work on the most pressing environmental issues of the day — from saving our last wild places, to protecting our oceans, to reducing climate change pollution.

For example, a team of organizers worked on a campaign with the Solar Rights Alliance to protect rooftop solar in California, helping to turn out over 2,000 people to campaign events and build a coalition of over 600 organizations and businesses in support of the campaign.

LAUNCH YOUR ORGANIZING CAREER

Upon completing the year, you will have the skills needed to launch your own campaign or run your own organization. We connect graduates with organizing jobs in the environmental and social change movements. Many of these groups need trained organizers to run their campaigns, and most Green Corps graduates are able to find professional positions immediately.

GREEN CORPS ORGANIZER PROGRAM YEAR CALENDAR

There are two components of the Green Corps year:

Training: Green Corps organizers attend eight weeks of classroom training to learn the theory and skills of environmental organizing
Campaigns: Green Corps organizers run three to five campaigns throughout the year to put their skills to work on pressing environmental issues

Here is an example of a year in the life of a Green Corps organizer.

AUGUST:	SEPTEMBER:	OCTOBER:
Three weeks of classroom training Travel to fall campaign	Launch fall campaign Launch recruitment campaign to find the next class of Green Corps	Fall campaign One week of classroom training Campus recruitment visit Fundraising letters
NOVEMBER:	DECEMBER:	JANUARY:
Fall campaign Culminating campaign events	Wrap up fall campaign One week classroom training Fundraising letters Winter break	Travel to spring campaign location Launch spring campaign
FEBURARY:	MARCH:	APRIL:
Spring campaign One week of classroom training Campus recruitment visit	Spring campaign Organize a fundraising event to benefit Green Corps Culminating campaign events	Wrap up spring campaign Two weeks of training Travel to summer canvass location
MAY:	JUNE/JULY:	AUGUST:
Launch summer canvass campaign	Summer canvass campaign	Wrap up summer canvass campaign Green Corps graduation

LOCATION

Green Corps Organizers go where the environment needs them and wherever they can make the biggest impact. Organizers could work on campaigns almost anywhere in the country, and while location preferences are considered for placements, we require all organizers to be geographically flexible.

APPLY

To learn more about compensation and benefits, and to apply, see our online application.