May 2024: Announcements, Climate Events, Community Updates

Here's what's up next at Work on Climate. Don't forget to join our 29k member Slack community and check out the free resources on our website 🌱

We're excited to announce the Advanced STEM in Cleantech Working Group

🤔 What it is: This group is a collaborative initiative bringing together 30 stakeholders from a variety of sectors across New York and New Jersey

🎯 Our goal: To fill the urgent gap for diverse skilled workers in the cleantech field to speed up the delivery of solutions to fight climate change 

👉 Why it's important: By joining forces, we aim to bridge the STEM talent gap in the region, as well as provide a blueprint for the workforce transformation in other sectors and regions

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Work on Climate is shifting into a Community of Practice - a community with the primary goal of building the skills that will be needed to transition to climate work. We plan to do this through connecting people to resources, collective problem solving, knowledge sharing/harvesting, and centralizing information in an easily discoverable way.

We're starting with three communities: 

NEW #learn-workplace-climate-action: This channel is for professionals who want to promote sustainable practices at work. Learn how to take climate action in your current organization & role.

#learn-finance: This channel is for professionals focused on project finance, carbon accounting, risk management, and more. If you want to advance your skills or shift your career toward climate-focused finance roles, this is the place for you.

#role-founders: This channel is for aspiring founders and founders who want to learn new skills and grow their venture’s climate impact.

Land a job in climate by solving climate company challenges

🗓️ May 29 | 📍 Online Event

Improve your climate job search by identifying key challenges for climate companies and offering solutions proactively. In this event, Marco Morawec will share how this strategy can add to your application and how to get started. 

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Collectively (re)imagining the climate movement

🗓️ June 11 | 📍 Online Event

Social tipping points happen when ideas or behaviors spread rapidly, causing massive social change. In this event, Ryan (Ra) James will talk about how we can achieve social tipping points for climate action, from a personal to organizational and systemic level.

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Want to be (or nominate) a Work on Climate speaker?

We’re looking for people who want to share their climate work success stories or expertise. If you'd like to be a speaker or nominate someone, fill out our speaker form for an opportunity to inspire and educate the WoCl community.

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Calling senior professionals pursuing a path into climate

The Climate Drift Career Accelerator is an 8-week program for mid-career and exec level climate job seekers. Solve real-world climate company challenges, gain leadership access, build your climate network and learn which climate niche is best for your skills. The next cohort starts at the end of May: Apply Now.

You can also get free climate learning resources and climate sub-sectors deep dives on the Climate Drift website.

Check out our improved Slack Directory

We recently improved our Slack Channel Directory! Use it to see what the Work on Climate Slack channels are all about, or search for a specific keyword to find a relevant channel. Felix Nguyen-Dalton, our Community Program Manager, recorded a short video about it 😊

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Welcome to Kim, our new Founder Program Manager

We're incredibly excited to welcome Kim as our new Founder Program Manager! She will be building programs for early-stage climate founders in our community.

Are you a founder or aspiring founder? 👇

Kim’s looking to talk to founders in the community to learn about your challenges, experiences in the community, and more. If you have 30 mins to chat, please DM her on Slack.

Reciprocity Circle

One of Work on Climate's core values is Participate and Reciprocate. Our Reciprocity Circle features community members seeking opportunities and collaboration - if you can offer support, just reach out directly 🤝

Brandon Ewonus says: "I'm looking for a full-time SWE job working on climate solutions. I'm a Bay Area-based software engineer with 9 years of industry experience, including scaling Google's rooftop solar product (Project Sunroof)." Connect with Brandon

Tammy Mayer says: "I'm the founder of One Climate Action. I'm seeking guidance from people with experience in B2B sales and corporate sustainability, seasoned entrepreneurs familiar with the ebbs and flows of starting a business, and people with experience in B2B and B2C marketing and sales. Your input would be game-changing!" Connect with Tammy.

Shan Gupta says: "My nonprofit startup, Climate Collective is 'The Nudge for climate action'. We’ve gained solid traction in our launch city of Los Angeles and are looking for awesome individuals to join our advisory board and/or offer their skills to help us with our growth strategy, funding goals, tech build-out, and marketing." Connect with Shan

Allelo Design says: "We're forming a brain trust to create scalable digital design standards, training, and tools for climate tech founders. We've just completed some initial research on existing design frameworks - check out our findings." If you're interested in the brain trust, send them a DM.

Philip Morkel says: "Hydragas stands at the forefront of clean energy production, harnessing proprietary technology to extract methane gas from aquatic sources on a global scale. We're looking for help getting investors to look at a series of investments in a required demo-stage project, followed by a series of commercial, high earnings investments. We could also use help with PR and B2G marketing skills." Connect with Philip

Member project: A new website on climate solutions

Jeff Seidman recently launched a new website to help beginners explore the space of climate solutions and climate careers. Jeff says he would love any suggestions and/or collaboration. View the thread.

Volunteer with Work on Climate

Work on Climate's mission is made possible with the help of 60 amazing volunteers! Consider joining our volunteer team to be part of a passionate global volunteer community and make an impact on climate 🌱

Current open volunteer roles:

• Quant Researcher/Quant Research Analyst

• Impact Research Team Lead

• Qualitative/User Researcher

• Event Facilitator 

• Event Coordinator 

• Program Coordinator 

• Website Developer

• Graphic Designer 

• Subject Matter Experts in Finance or Entrepreneurship

• Community Moderator 

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💚 Thank you

We’re excited you’re part of Work on Climate! If you have any questions or suggestions for us, just leave a comment or let us know in #community-feedback on Slack.