Our programs
Protecting the environment is the most important challenge facing our world. Nothing prepares you to meet that challenge like Green Corps.
Green Corps trains organizers, provides field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduates activists who have demonstrated the skills, temperament and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles.
Organizer Program
Our yearlong Organizer Program prepares individuals for careers in environmental action. Participants receive eight weeks of classroom training, then lead three campaigns across the country for hands-on experience in organizing, advocacy and grassroots fundraising.
Campaigner Program
Green Corps also offers the Campaigner Program. This four-month introduction to environmental organizing combines classroom instruction with real-world campaign work. The Campaigner Program is designed to both equip participants with foundational skills and open pathways to further opportunities in environmental advocacy. Select participants may be invited to enroll in our full-year Organizer Program.
Is Green Corps right for you?
Here are 10 things to consider:
10. Track record
Green Corps is the nation’s most respected training program for environmental organizers.
The Green Corps year is just the beginning. At the end of the year, you graduate and begin your organizing career. Green Corps will help you find your place in the movement, making an impact on today's — and tomorrow's — most pressing environmental issues.
1. Our mission
We are laser-focused on the environment because the environment is the most important challenge facing our world today. That’s why we’re called Green Corps — not equality corps, not health care corps or some other corps.
3. Impact
We work hard to create opportunities for you to make the biggest positive impact you can for the planet. It’s up to you to rise to the challenge.
4. Training
To make an impact, you need training. Our training is top-notch, focused on organizing skills that have stood the test of time. Part of this training happens in a classroom setting with experienced organizers and advocates. Most of the training happens through hands-on experience, as you learn by doing. You’ll do things for the first time, make mistakes and learn how to adapt and persevere.
6. Paid learning
Many people would pay for this kind of training. It’s like graduate school for organizing. But we’ve worked to fund the program so that we can offer pay and benefits to people at the start of their careers.
7. Challenge
Get ready to step up right away. In Green Corps, we give you a ton of responsibility, the kind that pushes you outside of your comfort zone. You’ll be reaching out to new people every day, asking them to take action or volunteer with you. You’ll be meeting with community leaders, reporters and elected officials, all to build support for your campaign. You’ll need to work evenings and weekends, move to a new location if that is where you are needed most and push yourself to achieve ambitious campaign goals.
2. The issues
We 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.
8. A crash course experience
Green Corps packs a ton of experience into one short year, with organizers working in three, four or even five different cities throughout the Green Corps year on a variety of issues with multiple partner groups.
5. Organizing
We’re organizers. We understand the power of public support to transform good ideas into reality. We won’t train you to be an environmental lawyer, scientist or engineer. We’re here to train you to organize.
9. Rewarding
This is important work and it’s demanding. But it’s also rewarding and fun. In Green Corps, you meet amazing people among your classmates, your trainers and directors, and your campaign volunteers.