The Tacoma Climate Leadership Cohort is a program organized by Tacoma Tree Foundation on behalf of the City of Tacoma Office of Environmental Policy and Sustainability.
Inspired by community input and the City of Tacoma’s 2030 Tacoma Climate Action Plan (CAP), cohort members will engage with community organizations, City staff, and elected officials, and take climate action!
Made up of frontline community members*, the cohort will learn about local climate change impacts, emissions sources, and solutions through a social justice lens, as well as civic engagement strategies and tools to navigate local public decision-making processes. Civic engagement focuses on advocacy and activism through a social and/or wider political or systemic lens. Civic engagement strategies aim to support particular causes or policies, increase public awareness on issues, protect public values of the community, and more.
Tacoma's Climate Action Plan guides action for healthy, affordable housing; clean, reliable transportation; protections for public health; and green, good paying jobs. The Tacoma Climate Leadership Cohort is an extension of the CAP and is meant to foster relationships, support individual development, and connect community issues, services, and efforts.
Selected cohort members will be offered a stipend up to $595.
