Practical Climate Action Training for People, Communities, and the Nonprofits
and Towns That Serve Them
PROVEN, PRACTICAL APPROACH
Get road-tested, affordable, do-it-yourself solutions for a changing climate that you can launch now!
Start today with ‘8 Steps: Cut Your Carbon Footprint 50%.’
LEARN HOW TO
PLAN EFFECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION
BUILD STRONGER COMMUNITIES
LAUNCH REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS
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Discover practical climate action programs tailored for community members, nonprofits, and local governments in rural North America. Gain the skills to plan, fund, and implement solutions that protect the environment and strengthen your community.
Towns, counties, local governments
Guide your community: Write, fund, and launch a tailored climate action plan in this hands-on program.
Rooted in traditional knowledge
Discover climate solutions to help tribal members combat global warming in this live teacher-led course.
For individuals and households
Worried about climate change but unsure how to take action? We guide you in discovering solutions.
Protect farm & ranch productivity
Are you a farmer hoping to find ways to make your farm more resilient and able to adapt to changing climate?
Develop your farm’s plan
Plan, fund, launch, and manage a regenerative agriculture action plan for your farm or ranch.
Explore field-tested practices
Map out a Climate Smart Agricultural Plan tailored to your local needs. Prioritize which practice to start first.
Protect home and family
Plan, fund, launch, and manage a disaster preparation plan for your home, family, and neighbors.
On-the-Ground Training
In-person workshops in partnership with rural communities, local governments, and nonprofits.
Learn what donors want
Develop a donor presentation and have an exploratory donor meeting. Use their input to perfect proposal.
What it takes to get started
For long term sustainability, engage community members in the launch. They will become project stewards.
Include the community
Sustainability: Give the community a plan for project takeover and management so they can maintain it long-term
Explore field-tested practices
Map out a Climate Smart Agricultural Plan tailored to your local needs. Prioritize which practice to start first.
Design a community project
How to develop solution-oriented programs for the needs of your community.
Fund your project
Develop funding tools: logframes, budgets, schedules, 2-page fact sheet
Launch your project
For the most positive impact, fully engage the community in their project.
Manage your project
For long-term sustainability, give the community a plan for project takeover.
Perfect for web donations
Tune up your marketing plan, newsletters & website to motivate online donors.
Quick, self-paced program
Develop donor-focused newsletters and web pages for your organization.
Fund, launch, and manage
Design a nonprofit project to attract donor funding & manage it for impact.
Help rural communities
For long term sustainability, engage community members in project design.
Teach families to grow food
Ideal for individuals and families—as well as nonprofits. Grow food for family fun and nutrition.
Start container gardening
Teach at-risk urban families to grow fresh nutritious vegetables in small places like terraces.
Create a community garden
Start a community food garden for schools, senior centers, at-risk families, and food banks.
Sun, soil, water, plants, pests
How to care for the gardens that you have planted and how to plan and plant for next season.
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Every Month
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Link skeptics and believers
10 Minute Read
How to respectfully engage and converse with skeptical communities about preparing for climate change.
Cut carbon footprint 50%
10 Minute Read
How you as an individual can create a personalized climate action plan and create a respectible footprint.
For nonprofit professionals
Every Month
Advance your career, raise funds, and solve nonprofit challenges, and uplift communities. Subscribe!
Community adaptation
How to design & run a real climate change project in a real community.
Learn what donors want
Develop funding tools: log frames, budgets, schedules and fact sheets.
Learn to get started
For the most positive impact, fully engage the community in their project.
Include the community
For long-term sustainability, give the community training for project takeover.
Climate change agriculture
Discover specific food & income challenges & find sustainable solutions.
Community emergencies
Design a DRR program to protect agriculture, livelihoods, and save lives.
International Food Security
Reduce hunger and malnutrition. Launch food gardens for at-risk families.
Protection and supply
Develop a community water management plan to protect & provide & then launch it!
1. Design an NGO project
How to develop solution-oriented programs for the needs of your community.
2. Fund your NGO project
Develop funding tools: log frames, budgets, schedules, and two-page fact sheets.
3. Launch your NGO project
For the most positive impact, fully engage the community in their project.
4. Manage your project
For long-term sustainability, give the community a plan for project takeover.
CSDi participants from 154 countries
Nonprofits engaged worldwide
Peoples’ lives & communities enhanced
Our cutting-edge training programs have been used by over 1,000 top organizations worldwide. Here are a few examples:
