NEW YORK, NY--40 promising conservation leaders will advance their environmental vision and conservation leadership skills as recipients of 2009 TogetherGreen Fellowships.
The TogetherGreen Fellowship program invests in high-potential environmentalists, providing them with the tools, resources, visibility and a peer network to help them lead the conservation actions needed to shape a greener, healthier future. Audubon and Toyota launched the five-year TogetherGreen initiative in 2008 to fund conservation projects, train environmental leaders, and offer opportunities to volunteer to significantly benefit the environment.
Every year, 40 fellows (half from within Audubon and half from outside groups) are chosen for their leadership potential, skills and commitment to engaging diverse communities in conserving land, water and/or energy. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend, assistance launching a conservation action project, all-expenses paid specialized training and they become part of an exciting alumni network of conservation professionals.
Fellows participate in a week-long, kick-off training at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife’s National Conservation Training Center focused on enhancing conservation skills and sharing the latest thinking on achieving sustainable conservation success. Near the completion of their fellowship, fellows return for a three-day follow up retreat focused on fundraising, diversity, evaluation, and strategies to sustain their conservation action projects over the long term.
Sample 2009 conservation action projects that will be funded this year include:
*Greening city government and implementing the US Mayors Climate Protection
Agreement in South Florida;
*Empowering more young people in Denver to reduce energy use at their schools and homes;
*Teaching Brooklyn teens to connect the dots between food and energy conservation;
*Hosting a learning institute on clean technology and green jobs in the Bronx;
*Working with local governments in western Montana on stream and wetland protection measures;
*Preserving undeveloped barrier islands in North Carolina; and
*Establishing a town’s one and only recycling center in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The inaugural class of TogetherGreen Fellows was named in 2008 and in less than one year recruited more than 3,400 participants for their conservation projects and contributed a combined 37,000 hours to their conservation action projects. One 2008 fellow leveraged her $10,000 grant to raise an additional $180,000 in matched funds.
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