Donation Pledge: Environmental Education & Engagement
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This week for our Eight Weeks of Giving Donation Pledge we are donating $1,500.00 to the Greening Youth Foundation (GYF). GYF engages underrepresented Black youth and young adults in the outdoors. Learn more about GYF’s work below and consider donating directly if you have the means! You can learn more about our Giving Pledge via our first blog post in this series here.
GYF’s mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults, while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural based environmental education program engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.
GYF partners with environmental organizations including the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and others to provide challenging, interesting and life changing internship opportunities to talented students and young adults from diverse backgrounds. These experiences open doors for a new generation of environmentalists and conservationists.
Click here to donate directly to GYF.
Here at Coral & Tusk, nature is central to all we create! The great outdoors inspires our designs, our practices, and serves as a necessary outlet to us on a personal level. Our Pinedale, WY office is in close proximity to pristine wilderness that every member of our team has had the opportunity to enjoy. We believe wholeheartedly that this opportunity, to experience nature in a safe and delightful way, should be extended to everyone.
The work required to curb climate change includes environmental justice, access to clean air and water is a basic human right. We’ve included links to organizations, articles, books and more that dive deep on why anti-racism is central to protecting our planet.
Resources
Intersectional Environmentalist Platform
NAACP on Environmental Justice
“A Brief History of Environmental Justice” (Video) from ProPublica
“Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist” by Leah Thomas in Vogue
“We’re Here. You Just Don’t See Us” by Latria Graham in Outside
“Being black while in nature: 'You’re an endangered species'” by Poppy Noor on The Guardian
Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders by Angelou Ezeilo, Founder of Greening Youth Foundation
“Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change” an interview with activist Elizabeth Yeampierre and journalist Beth Gardiner for YaleEnvironment360
Learn about the other causes and organizations we have donated to in our previous Eight Weeks of Giving blog posts: