NYC Climate Week: Supporting Organizations
Start:Empowerment (S:E) is a BIPOC-led non-profit at the nexus of climate education, solutions, and environmental justice. We offer high-quality, justice-centric climate education by combining science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics (STEAM) skills and traditional ecological knowledge. Our mission is to empower the youth of color to innovate, imagine, and build a just and sustainable future.
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
United Federation of Teachers is 190,000 members strong and proudly advocate for NYC public school educators and the students they serve.
CFR Education from the Council of Foreign Relations aims to close the global literacy gap in our country by providing accessible, accurate, and authoritative resources that build the knowledge, skills, and perspective high school and higher education students need to understand and engage with today’s most pressing global issues.
New York State Public Health Association (NYSPHA) is among the nation’s oldest nonprofit organizations dedicated to promoting and protecting the health of all New Yorkers. Especially at a time when climate change presents an existential threat, NYSPHA advocates for policies that educate and empower our citizenry, as well as policies that eliminate health disparities and social injustice.”
STEMteachersNYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting a community of STEM teachers across the NYC region. Our mission is to cultivate excellence in STEM teaching and to promote deep understanding and success for students through innovative, teacher-led professional development. We nurture teacher-led professional learning, community, and partnership opportunities that offer ongoing, career-spanning practical support and inspiration to the teachers of NYC and beyond.
The School of Education of The City College of New York prepares educators to support students of our diverse communities to meet the challenges of the 21st century and to be active participants in our democracy. To this end, we uphold and extend the college's historic mission of access and excellence for "the children of the whole people" of the City of New York. Uniting our efforts is our commitment to education as a moral endeavor that can enhance the human condition, realize possibilities, and make the world a more just place.
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America's largest and most trusted conservation organization, works across the country to confront the interrelated crises of rapid biodiversity loss, accelerating climate change, and pervasive environmental injustice. NWF is committed to providing youth, educators and communities with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the climate crisis and take action to protect our common future.
Next100: Launched in 2019, Next100 was designed to be intentionally different from
traditional think tanks—a research and policy organization made up of those
proximate to our country’s most pressing policy challenges. At Next100, kier is working to expand access to interdisciplinary, justice-centered climate education in New York’s K–12 schools and increase statewide adoption within education standards nationally.
Share My Lesson: Created and maintained by the AFT, Share My Lesson is a community of teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel, specialized instructional support personnel, higher education faculty, and parents and caregivers who contribute content, collaborate, and stay up to date on the issues that matter to students and educators everywhere.
American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.
Gaia Scholastic supports educational organizations in weaving interdisciplinary Environmental Education into their work through curated, standards-driven curriculum, Professional Development, and with community events like Youth Climate Summits. Through these programs, students can become environmentally-literate global citizens and educators can gain a deeper understanding of how to foster that citizenship in their classrooms.
The NYCPS Office of Energy & Sustainability drives transformative change in all NYC schools through resources and programs that increase efficiency of facilities, address environmental impacts, and aim to provide all stakeholders with opportunities for action.
Education is integral to our work to deliver purposeful and comprehensive stakeholder engagement, greater climate resiliency, expanded climate literacy, and opportunities for student empowerment to better ensure social equity and a healthy environment for all generations.
