Green Corps

Green Corps is a non-profit organization based in the United States which focuses on furthering the environmental movement.

Green Corps is the Field School for Environmental Organizing. Green Corps runs a one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program that gives instruction and experience to recent college graduates interested in launching an organizing and advocacy career. According to the [http://www.greencorps.org Green Corps website] , the program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on field experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and career placement in permanent leadership positions with leading environmental groups. It has an attrition rate similar to other first-year organizer training programsFact|date=March 2008.

Partial list of Green Corps graduates

Global Warming and Energy

*Bernadette Del Chiaro, Energy Advocate, Environment California (GC '98)
*Roger Smith, Connecticut Campaign Director, Clean Water Action (GC '02)
*Frank Gorke, Energy Advocate, MASSPIRG (GC '00)
*Colleen Sarna, Global Warming and Conservation Organizer, Sierra Club (GC '02)
*Leila Salazar, ChevronToxico Campaign Organizer, Amazon Watch, (GC '99)
*Meghan Shaw, Organizer, Union of Concerned Scientists, (GC '04)
*Bill Holland, Field Organizer, Apollo Alliance, (GC '01)
*Phil Radford, Field Director, Greenpeace (GC '99)

Wilderness and Wildlife

*Eric Antebi, Account Director, Fenton Communications (GC '94)
*Liz Butler, Organizing Director, Forest Ethics (GC '96)
*Sarah Hodgdon, Executive Director, Dogwood Alliance (GC '93)
*Tom Mooers, Executive Director, Sierra Watch (GC '93)
*Sarah Matsumoto, National Field Director, Endangered Species Coalition (GC '99)
*Melissa Waage, Policy Analyst, Center for Biological Diversity (GC '02)
*Emily Platt, Executive Director, Gifford Pinchot Task Force (GC '01)
*Tom Gilbert, Eastern Forests Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society (GC '93)

Public Health and Toxics

*Lisa Archer, Campaign Coordinator, Health and Environment Program, Friends of the Earth (GC'01)
*Gina Coplon-Newfield, Health Action AIDS Campaign Director, Physicians for Human Rights (GC'97)
*Susan Comfort, Vice President for Finance, Environmental Working Group, (GC '94)
*Gregg Small, Executive Director, Washington Toxics Coalition (GC'94)
*Alyssa Schuren, Executive Director, Toxics Action Center (GC '02)
*Vanessa Pierce, Community Organizer, HEAL Utah (GC '03)
*Vanessa Marvin, Organizing Coordinator, The Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing (GC'01)
*Kim DeFeo, Co-Director, National Grassroots Environmental Justice Organizing Program (GC '00)

Democracy

*Adam Ruben, Political Director, MoveOn.org PAC (GC '93)
*Kimberly Larson, Deputy Political Director, National Association of State PIRGs (GC '96)
*Pete Maysmith, Executive Director, Colorado Common Cause (GC '93)
*Melanie Nutter, Deputy District Director, Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, (GC '94)
*Heather Smith, Director, Young Voter Strategies (GC '99)
*Ted Halstead, President, New America Foundation, (GC '93)
*Jessica Hamilton, Legislative Affairs Director, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, (GC '95)
*David Edeli, Senior Field Organizer, Public Citizen (GC '01)
*Arshad Hasan, Training Coordinator, Democracy for America (GC '04)
*Erin Casey, Field Organizer, Grassroots Campaigns (GC '99)

ocial Change

*Peter Colavito, Political Director, SEIU 32BJ, GC'94 (GC '94)
*Valerie Orth, Sweatfree Organizer, Global Exchange (GC '01)
*Matt Stembridge, Director of Environmental Advocacy, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, (GC '00)
*Patti Lynn, Campaign Director, Corporate Accountability International (GC '97)
*Dan Firger, Global Finance Organizer, Rainforest Action Network (GC '02)
*Ben MacConnell, Recruitment Director, Direct Action Research and Training Center (GC '98)
*Parker Blackman, Managing Director, Fenton Communications (GC '93)

See also

*Sustainability
*Biodiversity
*Global warming
*Recycling
*Ecology
*Earth Science
*Natural environment

External links

* [http://www.greencorps.org Green Corps]
* [http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/greencorps/ nonprofitwatch.org] - Criticism of Green Corps from 2 former employees (written in 2003):
** [http://www.seac.org/threshold-backup/threshold-april-2004.pdf seac.org] - Some Green Corps graduates response to Non Profit Watch
* [http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/roadtripnation/greenCorps.asp Princeton Review article on Green Corps]