Power Shift Network was a national community of organizations who worked with young leaders to fight for climate justice. Our members worked on diverse issues and campaigns—from fighting toxic tar sands pipelines to building locally-owned renewable energy projects to supporting young people of color to run for office—and they ranged from small student groups to big national nonprofits and everything in between.
Member organizations gained access to a variety of resources to help organize more powerfully and effectively, like small financial grants, coaching and training support, and the ability to make connections with organizers across the country.
Member Spotlight
YUCCA
YUCCA is part of the youth-led movement that is igniting all over the world to fight for a livable future. They are also a part of the social, economic, and environmental justice movements of northern New Mexico. They work intergenerationally, cross-culturally, and intersectionally. They align with all struggles for liberation across the world and actively work to combat all forms of oppression including a lot of their recent work around addressing false climate solutions.
Rise St. James
Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice as it works to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Led by Sharon Lavigne, 2021’s Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Rise St. James galvanized community opposition and successfully defeated the construction of a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing plant in 2019. The group is currently fighting to prevent Formosa Plastics from building a massive multibillion-dollar plastics plant in the parish.
Members that made up our Network
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Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network
Alliance for Affordable Energy
Appalachian Climate Action Collaborative
Arctic Youth Network
Black Girl Environmentalist
Blvbancha Public Access
Borderland Rainbow Center
Bvlbancha Collective
California Student Sustainability Coalition
Campaign For America
Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons
Care About Climate
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Center for Native American Youth
Central Florida Jobs with Justice
Central Jersey Climate Coalition
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chicago Youth Alliance for Climate Action
Citizens Coal Council
Clark Climate Justice
Clean Up the River Environment
Climate First! Climate Generation
College Climate Coalition
Community Power Confront the Climate Crisis
Corporate Accountability
Dane County Youth Environmental Committee
Deep South Center For Environmental Justice
Destination Innovation
Dissenters Divest Ed
Divest Harvard Alumni
Earth Charter Indiana
Earth Guardians
Earth Hacks
Earth in Brackets
Earth Strategy
Earth Strike
EDGE Philly
Energy Justice Network
Environmental Stewardship Division
Famalao'an Rights
Feud for Food
Florida Student Power Network
Friends of the Earth
Frontera Water Protectors
Gaia Coalition Network
Gamechanger
Generation Green
Georgia Environmental Coalition of Colour
Global Exchange
Global Zero
Grand Aspirations
Great Plains Action Society
Green 2.0 Green Action
Green Deshis Green For All
Green Latinos
Green Neighbor Challenge
Green Schools Campaign
Greening Forward Groundswell
Herbicide Free Campus
Honor the Earth
HOPE
Immigrant Youth Coalition
Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Peoples of the Coastal Bend
Institute for Policy Studies
International Student Environmental Coalition
IntersectECO
Jewish Youth Climate Movement
Justice Education Project
Justice Outside Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition Latin American Youth Center
Maine Environmental Changemakers
Maine Youth for Climate Justice
Masakåda Collective
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light MN350
Movement for a People's Party
National Wildlife Federation
New York Communities for Change
Newark Water Coalition
NJ Student Sustainability Coalition North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) Oil Change International
OneMillionOfUs
OPAL Environmental Justice
Organize Florida Education Fund
Our Children's Trust
Our Climate
Our Climate Voices
Overstory Alliance
Partnership for Southern Equity
Pennsylvania Student Power Network
Post-Landfill Action Network
Pueblo Action Alliance Rainforest Action Network Real Food Challenge
Revolution Coalition Network
Rise and Shine
Rise in Love Foundation
Rise St James
Rogue Climate Schools for Climate Action Campaign Sierra Club - Wisconsin Chapter
Sierra Student Coalition
Society of Native Nations
Solar Head of State
Soulardarity
Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN)
Southwest Organizing Project
Spelman Environmental Task Force Stand.Earth
STAY Project
Students of Color Environmental Collective
Sunrise El Paso Sunrise Movement Sunrise RI
SustainUS
The Bullard Center for Environmental And Climate Justice at Texas Southern University
The Climate Mobilization
The Cool Project
The Democracy Collaborative
The People’s Justice Council
The Roosevelt Network
The United People Project
UnKoch My Campus
Uplift
VAYLA New Orleans
Virginia Student Environmental Coalition
Water Drop LA
We Own It
Wisconsin Youth Network
Worcester Youth Cooperatives
Wotakuye Mutual Aid
Yale Student Energy Association
YCAT
Young People's Action Coalition
Youth United for Climate Crisis Action
Youth v. Gov
Youth vs. Apocalypse Zero Hour 350
350 Conejo/San Fernando Valley
350 DC