Supporters
Who Are Supporters in CARE?
The targeted approach to the left enables widespread public engagement that meets the project-specific needs of both teachers and students.
Post-Secondary Institutions
CARE provides robust opportunities for higher education to engage with nearby communities in ways that benefit all partners.
Anecdotal evidence shows that CARE helps post-secondary institutions:
- Share climate-related knowledge
- Showcase climate-focused research
- Promote climate-related programs/degrees to students in nearby communities
- Provide mentor and advisor opportunities for faculty, staff, and students
Climate Experts & Professionals
CARE relies on the knowledge, passion, and networks of climate experts and professionals to mentor and advise small teams of students.
Aligning with CARE goals for mentors, they reported enjoying and benefiting from the following:
- Sharing experience, knowledge, and passion with students
- Building intergenerational relationships and capacities based on trust and mutual respect
- Connecting with others and building capacity in the climate-action community
- Working with people from different sectors
- Learning more about climate change and climate action
- Accelerating the move toward meaningful and measurable community climate action
Climate-Focused Nonprofits
CARE and local environment/climate-focused community groups all benefit from these partnerships.
CARE is supported by organizations whose members act as mentors and advisors to student teams. These volunteers bring local knowledge, passion, networks, and projects from which students can learn about climate change and build climate action interests and abilities.
Participating nonprofit organizations benefit by:
- Increasing community awareness of their organizations and specific mandates/projects
- Recruiting new members
- Building alliances with other local groups with shared goals
- Expanding visibility with school district (e.g., knowledge-sharing and project support) and local government (e.g., input to policy and projects, and cost-sharing opportunites)
Climate-Friendly Businesses
Local businesses can participate in a variety of ways:
- Participate as an exhibitor at a CARE expo
- Provide employees with volunteer opportunities for student project support
- Participate as a case study for a student team looking to make a business more climate friendly
- Assist a student project that’s aligned with the business’s focus (e.g., funding or in-kind support from a solar company to a group of students building a solar-powered device)
- Support CARE as a Partner