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ELC member organizations offer a wide range of opportunities for environmental professionals, activists, and students to strengthen their skills, gain experience, and build their leadership capacity. ELC member organizations serve diverse constituencies from students to emerging leaders to established veteran environmentalists. Through the Collaborative, these organizations share lessons learned, collaborate on projects of mutual interest and concern, and raise visibility for the need for capacity building in the environmental field.
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Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
Begun in 1998, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program (ALLP) is a program for environmental scientists who want to be more effective communicators of scientific information. Selecting 20 environmental scientists each year for three years, ALLP training objectives include expert instruction and consultation, hands-on communication projects, and peer networking.
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The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
The Barron Prize honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet. The prize is awarded to 10 youth each year (in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico) between the ages of 8 and 18. Half of each year's winners are chosen for their work to protect the environment.
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Center for Environmental Citizenship
The Center for Environmental Citizenship is dedicated to encouraging college students to be "environmental citizens." The CEC educates, trains, and organizes a diverse national network of young environmental leaders.
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Center for Sustainable Resource Development and Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
The Beahrs ELP links environmental and natural resource science and policy at the University of California, Berkeley with practitioners and decision-makers around the world. Through interactive training, leadership skills-building, peer networking, and collaborative research and outreach projects, the Beahrs ELP builds capacities in sustainable environmental management for emerging environmental leaders.
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Earth Island Institute, Brower Youth Awards
The Earth Island Institute, founded by David Brower, provides organizational support for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. The Brower Youth Awards honor and reward outstanding young environmental leaders (ages 13 to 22). Each year, six winners receive cash prizes, wilderness training in Yosemite National Park, and ongoing access to mentors, resources, and leadership opportunities.
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Environmental Careers Organization
ECO protects and enhances the environment through the development of diverse leaders, the promotion of careers, and the inspiration of individual action. ECO provides internships, career advice, career products, research and consulting for those interested in environmental careers.
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Environmental Leadership Program
The Environmental Leadership Program seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting a diverse network of visionary, action-oriented emerging leaders.
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Green Corps
Green Corps' Environmental Leadership Training Program trains the next generation of environmental leaders while providing critical field support to the nation's leading environmental groups. Application information is on the GreenCorps website.
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Institute for Conservation Leadership
Institute for Conservation Leadership strengthens leaders, organizations and coalitions/networks that protect and conserve the earth. It uses the tools of consulting, training, meeting facilitation, and research to support the development of strategies, people, money and other need internal resources.
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LEAD International
LEAD's mission is to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to promote change towards patterns of development that are environmentally sustainable and socially equitable.
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Leadership Learning Community
The Leadership Learning Community strives to build a learning community that strengthens leadership development by sharing ideas, resources, the results of inquiry, lessons learned, and innovative practices.
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National Wildlife Federation
NWF's Conservation Internship and Fellowship Programs offer leadership development opportunities including training, professional expertise and networking. Fellows are campus-based students whose projects help transform their colleges and universities into learning and teaching models of environmental sustainability. Interns are based in NWF offices around the country where they help advance NWF's conservation efforts.
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Rockwood Leadership Program
The Rockwood Leadership Program is non-profit organization that promotes social change through leadership training and consulting to progressive non-profits. Through its "Art of Leadership" and "Leading from the Inside Out" trainings, Rockwood provides individuals and organizations with the tools necessary to lead successful social change efforts.
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Sustainability Institute, Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows
Sustainability Institute's Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows program provides training for women whose approach to sustainability displays analytic clarity, systemic change and attention to spirit, values, and meaning. Fellows receive coaching in systems thinking, organizational learning and leadership for sustainability, and environmental and social issues.
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Switzer Fellowship Program
The Switzer Fellowship identifies and nurtures those individuals who have the ability and determination to improve the quality of our natural environment. The Foundation awards one-year fellowships to graduate students in New England and California who demonstrate active leadership to improve the environment. Leadership grants are available to nonprofits that team up with a former fellow.
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Tools of Change Educational Institute
The Tools of Change Educational Institute promotes best practices in environmental social marketing. It provides interactive web-based and face-to-face workshops, as well as a free on-line toolkit, for those who plan, decide on, facilitate or evaluate programs that create healthier, more sustainable communities.
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Watson International Scholars of the Environment
At Brown University, the Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program convenes environmental leaders from university faculties, governments and non-governmental organizations throughout the developing world. A 3.5 month intensive program in sustainable ecosystem management provides mastery of critical concepts, relevant tools and transferable processes necessary for successfully managing ecosystems.
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