Climate Justice Internship Organizations

Spring 2026 Partner Organizations

PODER SF

Mission: "Organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power."

Movement Generation: Justice & Ecology Project

Mission: "Inspire and engage in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. ...To usher in a just and equitable transition towards the economies that meet our needs, leadership must come from communities on the frontlines of ecological disruption. These frontline communities know that solving one problem while creating another is no solution at all. The new economies that our communities construct must take a holistic approach and foster equity, democracy, and ecological restoration."

Climate Justice Alliance

Mission: "To create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Our translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We believe that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition."

Frontline Catalysts

Mission: "Empowering frontline youth in Oakland to lead the movement for transformative climate justice."

Goldman Foundation (Goldman Environmental Prize)

Mission: "Honor ordinary people who take extraordinary actions to protect our planet."

Bay Area Air Quality Management District

Mission: "The Air District is tasked with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties."

Local Clean Energy Alliance

Mission: "To promote the development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change, advancing social and racial justice, and building sustainable and resilient communities."

People's Solar Energy Fund

Mission: "The People's Solar Energy Fund is where BIPOC and low income community leaders work together to build community-led solar projects with a path to community ownership in low and moderate-income communities and communities of color across the US. ...These nonprofits, cooperatives, tribal and municipal organizations share knowledge, financing solutions and technical assistance to reduce the cost of financing, improve each project's financial performance, reduce risks, and ensure PSEF's success."