Testimonials From Environmental Leaders

"While it is an honor to work in Congress defending our oceans, our air and our forests, I depend greatly on the dedicated troops of environmental champions like Green Corps alumni.  Armed with Green Corps training, these extraordinary individuals are working to preserve our planet."

- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

"Recruiting and training environmental leaders is the single most important thing we can do to protect our future.  Green Corps graduates with that training will take the environmental movement into its most important challenges and win."

- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President, Waterkeeper Alliance

"Green Corps had the vision to start training environmental activists a generation ago.  Now Green Corps alumni are leading the movement, and providing essential skills to many organizations, benefiting all of us.  Thank you Green Corps!"

- Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council

"Nothing could be more important than training the next generation of environmental leaders - they are the future of the future.  And no one has done it more consistently and reliably than Green Corps."

- Bill McKibben, global warming author and activist 

“If we are committed to protecting the environment, we must organize people to build power for environmental protection. No organization does that better than Green Corps. Green Corps trains some of the best organizers in the environmental movement and builds real grassroots organizing power in their campaign work.”

- Bob Bingaman, Field Director, Sierra Club

"I recommend Green Corps to any organization that is serious about winning a campaign."

- Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters

“Through citizen outreach, working with non-traditional constituencies and organizing meetings with key decisionmakers, Green Corps jump-started our national endangered species education campaign. Green Corps’ efforts proved an invaluable complement to our field program.”

- Rodger Schlickeisen, President, Defenders of Wildlife

“The environmental movement needs a training program that is this impressive in breadth and depth. Green Corps is a way to enhance the undergraduate experience by taking theories taught in the classroom and applying them to real-life situations.”

- Randall Hayes, President, Rainforest Action Network

“Green Corps offers an innovative and challenging approach to on the job training for environmental organizers.”

- Denis Hayes, President, Bullitt Foundation, Organizer of Earth Day 1970 and 1990

"Hiring Green Corps was one of the best decisions we ever made, enabling us to gain the edge in the battle to safeguard the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We would recommend Green Corps to anyone."

- Cindy Shogan, Executive Director, Alaska Wilderness League