The Carleton Climate Commons is excited to announce that we now have an opportunity for you to donate to help sustain our group. We have a new link on the Carleton Future Funder.
While the Climate Commons is impactful for students and broader members of the Carleton University and Ottawa communities, it also provides a unique experiential learning opportunity for students to engage and help facilitate important discussions around the climate crisis. Funds raised would help advance our mission to fund research, community-engaged projects, public events, and Indigenous-led initiatives and support graduate and undergraduate students in the work they do with us, which has been essential to our success. They’re involved in every aspect of our functioning.
While most students are volunteer members of the organization, our events only work when a few students have dedicated and established roles for which they are responsible. We hire one graduate student to oversee our Newsletter and our bi-weekly Teach-In series, Noons for Now (this involves liaising with speakers, moderating sessions, setting up the Zoom events, booking rooms for the in-person events, and compiling the resource list). To expand on opportunities available to students, we also hire one undergraduate students, who assists the graduate student and is our social media coordinator.