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Exec. Dir.
  
Joshua Buswell-Charkow

Founded
  
1992

Website
  
www.greencorps.org

Budget
  
1.668 million USD

Formation
  
1992; 25 years ago (1992)

Founders
  
Leslie Samuelrich, Gina Cummings

Mission
  
The Field School for Environmental Organizing

Type of business
  
501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization

Similar
  
Fund for the Public Interest, Environment America, Public Interest Research, Environmental Action, Maryland Public Interest R

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Green Corps is an environmental organization in the United States that trains recent college graduates in a one-year post-graduate program in grassroots community organizing. During the program, Green Corps organizers learn in the classroom and are deployed in the field to work on campaigns.

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Founding

Green Corps was founded in 1992 by Leslie Samuelrich and Gina Cummings with the financial backing of U.S. Public Interest Research Group in response to the momentum created by Earth Day 1990. Green Corps was created to channel young talent into environmental advocacy causes.

Campaign history

Green Corps is hired by non-profits such as the Sierra Club to manage their campaigns in the field. Campaigns Green Corps has worked on include:

  • Launching fossil fuel divestment campaigns on campuses.
  • Launching a national campaign to label GMO foods.
  • Leading the fights to shut coal plants on college campuses.

    • Executive Directors

    Executive Directors of Green Corps have included:

  • 1992-2008 Leslie Samuelrich
  • 2008-2012 Cindy Kang
  • 2012–present Joshua Buswell-Charkow

    • Board of Directors

    The current Green Corps Board of Directors includes:

  • Douglas H. Phelps, President and Executive Director, The Public Interest Network
  • Bob Bingaman, National Organizing Director, Sierra Club (Resigned from the Board in July 2016)
  • Cindy Kang, Executive Coaching Fellow, The Management Center
  • Andy MacDonald, National Campus Organizing Director, Student PIRGs
  • Leslie Samuelrich, President, Green Century Capital Management
  • Wendy Wendlandt, Political Director, The Public Interest Network
  • Matt Wilson, Executive Director, MASSCreative
  • Naomi Roth, Massachusetts Organizing Director, Families for Excellent Schools
  • Pete Maysmith, Executive Director, Conservation Colorado
  • Phil Radford, Former Executive Director, Greenpeace
  • Kirsten Collings, Deputy Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network

    • References

    Green Corps Wikipedia
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