The Aspen Global Change Institute for more than three decades has been helping make sense of Earth’s physical, natural, and human systems. Working as convenors and collaborators, the independent nonprofit engages researchers and practitioners to work on some of the most challenging global change issues, connecting science, implementation, and communications. The organization works across systems, geographies, and disciplines in addressing local, regional, and global issues, seeking to share reliable and reputable knowledge and practical solutions to adverse impacts.
Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® is a non-partisan energy and climate policy think tank. Energy Innovation provides customized research and policy analysis to decision makers and thought leaders to support policy design that reduces emissions at the speed and scale required for a safe climate future. Its technology-neutral policy recommendations are grounded in data, driven by its open-source and peer-reviewed Energy Policy Simulator model, which users can experience free online.
Factchequeado is an initiative created to counter mis and disinformation within the Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States. An innovative project led by Maldita.es, the first Spanish non-profit fact-checking media created to combat disinformation in Spain, and Chequeado, the first fact-checking media organization in Argentina and the Global South.
The Hispanic Communications Network (HCN) is a full-service social impact and behavior change agency with one mission: to improve quality of life for multicultural communities. In addition to agency services, HCN also serves as the largest producer and syndicator of non-commercial programming and multimedia content in the U.S. for Latinos, by Latinos, with platforms including La Red Hispana and Planeta Azul (Blue Planet), the longest-running and most widely syndicated national Spanish-language radio program dedicated to the environment and climate.
Latino Verde is a non-profit that creates linguistically and culturally resonant environmental media for Spanish-speaking audiences. The organization produces interview-based audio stories featuring experts and everyday Latinos working for the environment. Latino Verde also engages diverse audiences online with trilingual, research-based feature articles and climate change news.
The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting is an award-winning nonprofit journalism organization committed to supporting in-depth engagement with “under-reported” global issues. The Center, founded in 2006 by former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and Washington, D.C. bureau chief Jon Sawyer, now supports nearly 150 journalists per year through grants aimed at strengthening, print, online, and broadcast reporting. Its annual direct support to journalists exceeds $1.5 million. The Center also conducts an extensive program of outreach and education to schools and universities. The Pulitzer Center describes its activities as being “in keeping with the deep ties to the family whose name for more than a century has been a watchword for journalistic independence, integrity, and courage.”
Founded in 2007 in Brisbane, Australia, by John Cook,PhD, Skeptical Science is a non-profit science education website, run by a global team of volunteers. Translated in to more than two-dozen languages, the website provides debunkings of over 190 of the most common myths about climate change, making peer-reviewed scientific research accessible to the general public. The Skeptical Science team has also worked on a range of projects, such as The Consensus Project finding 97 percent agreement among scientists on climate research, and the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Denial101x, which has received more than 40,000 enrolments from individuals in 160 countries.
Climate Cardinals is a global youth-led nonprofit working to make climate education more accessible to those who do not speak English. The organization aims to educate and empower a diverse coalition of people to tackle the climate crisis. They have over 9,000 volunteers who translate and source climate information into over 100 languages. This international movement spans 41 countries, reaching over 500,000 people with over a million words of climate information translated.