In 2008, Green Corps celebrates 15 years of training a new generation of young people in the skills and strategies of grassroots environmental organizing.

The 200-plus emerging leaders we’ve trained since 1992 got a solid education in environmental organizing from seasoned environmental leaders and trainers. And while they learned, they made a difference. Through Green Corps’ partnerships with 75 environmental organizations, trainees have provided critical field support to more than 100 campaigns, winning dozens of  significant victories in conservation, corporate accountability, and public health.

And for most Green Corps graduates, that was just the beginning. Armed with tactical and strategic expertise in grassroots organizing, Green Corps graduates have gone on to build the power of the environmental movement, as Green Corps’ founders hoped they would.

Fanning out across a wide spectrum of organizations and campaigns, Green Corps alumni have activated and motivated citizens to successfully hold powerful institutions accountable for the future of our environment and our nation. Our graduates have conceived and spearheaded organizing strategies in forums ranging from local government to corporate boardrooms to presidential races. They’ve lent their passion and skill to groups of all sizes doing community organizing, internet organizing, shareholder activism, communications strategy, direct advocacy, and more.
 
For the broader environmental movement, however, success is not yet assured. Over the next 10 years, environmental organizations have an ambitious agenda: combating the dismantling of environmental protections, advancing bold new ideas to organize our society in harmony with our environment, and engaging and re-engaging the public—the key constituency that will carry the movement to victory. Green Corps remains committed to training a new generation of grassroots organizers to tackle these challenges.