Brandeis Activist Resource Center: Blog

Over at It's Getting Hot In Here a great blog about the youth-environmental movent, they've posted some great summer opportunities to help work on environmental campaigns around the country. Here are a few of them:

• Change It (July 16-21st Boston, MA & July 26-31st Seattle, WA) : Change It provides an opportunity for student leaders already committed to protecting the environment, leading social change and taking action to learn the skills and tools they need to become effective leaders. Change It participants will work one-on-one with Greenpeace mentors, who will provide personalized training on campaign strategy, recruitment, and event planning. Students will emerge from the program ready to engage in the efforts necessary to prevent global warming and address the most critical issues facing their generation. The website will go live in April. Contact: mary.nicol@sfo.greenpeace.org
• Northeast Climate Confluence (Late July, Worcester, MA): At this summer’s Northeast gathering we will be coming together from many backgrounds (multi generational, multi-racial, multi-gender, etc.) to help create the tangible changes we need within our communities. The focus will be on the needs and knowledge of communities that are most negatively effected by fossil fuel mining, burning, and by climate related disasters. The camp will include: over a week of workshops; issue based, skills based, trainings; strategy planning; and social events for networking and sharing stories in a fully sustainable gathering. Contact: northeast@climateconvergence.org
• SPROG (10 week-long programs, OR, CA, NM, MN, TX, GA, VA, PA, NH, PR): The Sierra Student Coalition’s week-long summer training programs (SPROGs) are nationally recognized and feature some of the country’s top student environmental leaders. They offer a perfect opportunity to get the grassroots organizing and leadership skills you need to organize and rise to the growing climate challenge. With 10 trainings around the country and spread throughout the summer, the SSC aims to train hundreds of students in grassroots organizing and connect them with organizing opportunities during the summer. Contact: jon@ssc.org.

There are many, many more. Check 'em out!