Our Partner Network

Through cross-sector partnerships, California Outdoor Engagement Coalition expands transformational experiences in the outdoors for youth who reflect the overall demographics of California.

Inspired by indigenous wisdom since 2001, Empowerment Works (EW) is a social change organization unleashing the power of collaboration in the relentless pursuit of a sustainable, just future for all.

Founded in 2013, The Pollination Project (TPP) is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to spark goodness and compassion in every person through a daily practice of generosity and grantmaking.

The mission of Ocean Recovery Alliance is to reduce plastic pollution on land and water by creating strategic solutions for governments, industry and communities which lead to long-term, hands-on engaging business practices. Their mission is achieved through purposefully designed programs to educate, build awareness and provide solutions which inspire positive societal change at the community, national and international levels.

Your Big Years works with people from every background and provide them with inspiration, peer network, innovation and entrepreneurial skills to build their own action plan and make an impact in their life and in their world.

Shangri-la Gyalthang Academy is a non-profit organization based in Yunnan, China. They work on four major ares including education, health, environment, and culture to empower people. They work in Yunnan, as well as Gansu and Qinghai provinces.

The Ghana Youth Environmental Movement (GYEM) is a leading youth-led environment and renewable energy advocacy and campaign group in Ghana. Our vision is to organize people to campaign for a sustainable environment and a just planet for the current and future generations. We approach this goal by building an inter-generational movement of young people from diverse backgrounds in Ghana to lead solutions to environmental challenges and confront the climate crisis. We focus on bottom up solutions and encourage the participation of communities, indigenous people and those at the front lines of environmental justice issues.

Green Africa Youth (GAYO) is based in Ghana with a network of youth activists across the sub-region. The organization's current focus is on creating sustainable communities through rural innovation, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, sustainable agriculture, zero-waste living, and plastic-free advocacy. GAYO is also engaged in youth and women empowerment training and setting up businesses for youth and women, while proving avenues for local occupations to thrive in an era of digital revolution

Buol Education Institute (BEI) promotes literacy and youth development, especially in rural areas. As part of their community engagement, they also work to raise awareness of sustainability issues and solutions to environmental challenges.

Sierra Leone School Green Club (SLSGC) is an indigenous community-based organization which prioritizes, education, agriculture, protecting our environment, and climate change adaptation. Their audience includes educational institutions, local government structures and non-governmental organizations and local communities that are directly or indirectly been affected by climate change.

Ekenywa Foundation is a charity organization of Ekenywa Safaris operating in Tanzania. Ekenywa believes that through improving knowledge and opportunity, they empower youth to become new leaders and role models capable of creating the conditions for a better and more sustainable future by addressing the social, traditional and economic difficulties of young people in East Africa. Through environmentally responsible community-based projects, in keeping with or directly using traditional knowledge and skills, they are able to help create long lasting benefits for the groups they work with.

The African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) is an umbrella youth network that was conceived in 2006 in Nairobi Kenya, during the 2nd International Conference of Youth held before the UNFCCC, COP 12. This initiative has continued to connect, share knowledge, ideas, experiences, skills and strategies on youth action around the continent on climate change mitigation and adaptation. AYICC ZIM was established thereafter with the intended purpose of focusing on the Zimbabwean youth going along with the same principles of combating climate change in Zimbabwe and beyond.