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ImpactZ is a non-profit organization that aims to spread environmental awareness and stewardship to the youth in our community through education and engagement. We aim to invite all who are passionate about the environment to share their interest through engaging and teaching young students. We do so by planting gardens...

Stanford Vaccine Crew provides vaccinations to local communities, especially communities that are historically underserved and have limited access to vaccines otherwise. We partner with organizations like the United Farm Workers and the Salvation Army to deliver both flu and COVID vaccines. Our undergraduate volunteers play a critical role in making...

Health Equity Advancement and Leadership Through Community Engagement (HEAL-CE) is a new course for first and second-year medical students with an interest in better understanding how to engage with communities as physicians to advance a health equity agenda. Through self-reflection, group discussions, and working through cases, students will develop practical...

About the organization Valley Verde is dedicated to building healthy and resilient communities by providing low-income families educational programs, edible gardens, and micro-entrepreneurship opportunities that create food security and lead to self-sufficiency. We accomplish this by providing home garden supplies, monthly gardening workshops, mentorship, and garden visits to address the...

About the organization The San Mateo County Flood and Sea Level Rise Resiliency District (OneShoreline) is an independent government agency that works across jurisdictional boundaries to secure and leverage public and private resources for the long-term climate resilience of San Mateo County. With lengthy shorelines along San Francisco Bay and...

About the organization In the Bay Area, as throughout the world, under-resourced communities are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change impacts. Since 2016, Climate Resilient Communities (CRC) has been on the ground, learning the specific needs of residents in diverse, under-resourced communities in East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks, and Belle...

Overview Located west of Highway 101 along the San Francisco Bayfront, the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park has been systematically excluded from the rest of the city and the surrounding area. Following decades of redlining and other unjust housing practices, today, Belle Haven residents experience exclusion in many dimensions...

EDF offers internships and fellowships for students and recent graduates in a variety of programs and departments throughout the organization. The ultimate goal of our internship and fellowship program is to provide high-quality experiences (including relevant projects and opportunities for networking) that form the foundation for any individual who is...

Audubon 2022 Policy Fellow - D.C. Location: Washington, D.C. or Remote The National Audubon Society is a dynamic, well-respected conservation advocacy organization and an emerging leader in climate advocacy. The 2022 Schneider Fellow will work side-by-side with highly- skilled policy and government relations advocates in Audubon’s Washington, DC-based Public Policy Office...

EDF offers internships and fellowships for students and recent graduates in a variety of programs and departments throughout the organization. The ultimate goal of our internship and fellowship program is to provide high-quality experiences (including relevant projects and opportunities for networking) that form the foundation for any individual who is...

NRDC is a non-profit international environmental advocacy organization with 3.1 million members and online activists. They use law, policy, and science to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970...

Summer 2022 Internships  Build Your Future with Rocky Mountain Institute!  Do you love solving dynamic problems, thinking in numbers and working in groups? Do you also have the self-motivation, curiosity, creativity and ability to persuade others toward meaningful results? Are you passionate about making the world a better place? If yes...

The US Power Sector: Ensuring a Just and Equitable Transition to Clean Energy (2 Fellows)-Cambridge, MA Our power sector needs a just and equitable transition to clean energy. The US electricity landscape is rapidly transforming, fueled by the falling costs of clean energy options like solar, wind, and battery storage...

UN FOUNDATION, Energy, Climate & Environment Team, Climate Science Fellowship The UN Foundation’s Climate Science Communications workstream is housed within the UN Foundation’s Climate & Environment team. The team works to combat the global climate crisis, transition the world to low-carbon energy, and tackle our most pressing environmental challenges – from...

A- Data & Analytics Fellow Washington, D.C./Remote   The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., focused on proving that better buildings equal better lives. USGBC established the LEED rating system to support this vision. LEED is the most widely used green building program in...

Aqueduct Water-Energy Nexus Fellowship  Washington, D.C. World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. We are working to address critical challenges that the world must overcome this decade in order to...

Schneider Sustainable Energy 1-Year Fellowships (2023-2024) The Schneider Fellowships were created for current Stanford students or recent graduates to promote the awareness of environmental issues resulting from our past and present energy use. The Fellowship program supports the efforts of non-governmental organizations, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)...

Through the Schneider Fellows program, Stanford students work at leading U.S. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the sustainable energy field. Fellows spend a summer quarter or one year tackling the world’s economic, environmental, social, and technical challenges associated with harnessing energy resources to deliver energy services. Fellows receive a stipend of...

Summer 2023 Internships  Build Your Future with RMI! Do you love solving dynamic problems, thinking in numbers and working in groups? Do you also have the self-motivation, curiosity, creativity and ability to persuade others toward meaningful results? Are you passionate about making the world a better place? If yes, then...

NRDC is a non-profit international environmental advocacy organization with 3.1 million members and online activists. They use law, policy, and science to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970...

The Stanford Housing Equity Project seeks to connect resources of Silicon Valley and higher academia to community initiatives supporting low-income and unsheltered residents to housing and social support through establishing high-quality programming and long-term organizational capacity.

EDF offers internships for students and recent graduates in a variety of programs and departments throughout the organization. The ultimate goal of our internship and fellowship program is to provide high-quality experiences (including relevant projects and opportunities for networking) that form the foundation for any individual who is serious about...

Research and Analysis Fellow, U.S. Climate Alliance Secretariat Position Overview  The U.S. Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of governors committed to upholding the goals of the Paris Agreement. The U.S. Climate Alliance secretariat provides strategic, convening, analytical and other functions to support Alliance states in making progress on...

A- LEED Technical Development Fellow (2 positions available) Washington, D.C.   The U.S. Green Building Council is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization focused on proving better buildings equals better lives. USGBC established the LEED rating system to certify buildings that support this vision. LEED stands for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental...

Ensuring a Just and Equitable Transition to Clean Energy in the United States (2 Fellows)-Cambridge, MA Our economy needs a just and equitable transition to clean energy. The US electricity landscape is rapidly transforming, fueled by the falling costs of clean energy options like solar, wind, and battery storage, and...

The Cardinal Free Clinics, consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer services including health education, interpretation, referrals, and labs. In clinic students are guided in the...

Required of and open only to Earth Systems co-terminal MS and MA students. This course has several elements, including, skill building through experiential learning and reflection and professional development. Students will either work in teams with a community partner in the Bay area on a predetermined project, or select a...

The Farmlink Project connects farms with surplus to food banks to feed people in need, reduce carbon emissions & empower the next generation of changemakers. Our team is comprised of passionate students from diverse backgrounds united by the cause to create a more equitable and sustainable food system. This fellowship...

We are a coalition of Stanford students, scientists, and alumni invested in ensuring the Doerr School of Sustainability achieve its full potential as a beacon of research excellence that accelerates the energy transition, with the speed and scale necessary to avert catastrophe. We are calling on school leadership to decline...

Students for Workers' Rights is an activist group that organizes the Stanford student body around the issue of labor at Stanford. We recruit Stanford students to our organization, educate them on the labor issues occurring at Stanford, and organize them to do something about it. We develop close relationships with...