CEE-Change Fellowship

CEE-Change Fellowship:
Building Leadership in Civics and Environmental Education (CEE)

ee360 and Cedar Tree Foundation launch the CEE-Change Fellowship to scale up our impact as we work to create a more equitable and sustainable future.

NAAEE's newest initiative to support leadership and innovation in civics and environmental education around the world began in early July of 2021 with 30 Fellows. NAAEE recognizes the value in fostering leadership within schools and at the community level, promoting civic engagement and environmental responsibility, and ultimately building more resilient and healthy communities.

The fellowship program is a partnership with U.S. EPA and the Cedar Tree Foundation to help strengthen environmental education and civic engagement.
Learn more about US EPA’s mission

The eighteen-month fellowship provides CEE-Change Fellows with opportunities to learn and network through online professional development, technical assistance, and face-to-face training. Fellows design civic engagement (CE) and environmental education (EE) Community Action Projects and have access to a limited pool of mini-grant funding to support their work, leadership training, and professional development opportunities. Participants will learn civic engagement skills together with environmental education skills, and look at how the two fields can collaborate more deliberately. Each project addresses U.S. EPA’s core mission to provide Americans with clean air, land, and water.

For inquiries, please contact us at CEEchangeFellow@naaee.org. Read the press release here.

Welcome to our blog series, CEE-Change, Together. Each month, NAAEE will post narratives from the CEE-Change Fellows as they implement their community action projects and work to strengthen environmental education and civic engagement capabilities, all supporting the mission of cleaner air, land, and water. Join us on their journey by reading their blog posts. We will release a few new stories each month on eePRO and link to them here!
March 2022: "Deliberative Dialogue Forums: Effectively Engaging Communities on Challenging Topics," by Mandy Baily
April 2022: "Facilitating Teen and Adult Community Environmental Action Projects via Near-Peer Mentors and Resources", by Laura Cisneros
April 2022: "Parley for the Oceans: Fighting Marine and Coastal Plastic Pollution," by Judith Morales
May 2022: "Cepow Cameroon Helps Solve Cameroon's Plastic Waste Problem," by Fontoh Desmond Abinwi
June 2022: "Community-Based Science Gives Middle Schoolers a Voice for Education," by Patricia Dugan-Henriksen
June 2022: "Climate Conversations Collaborative," by Lisa Yeager
July 2022: "Place-Based Education and Civic Engagement," by Aubrae Filipiak
July 2022: "Environmental Leadership Project Connecting Youth to Their Communities," by Danny Woolums
August 2022: "Adapting Formal Education Curriculum to Fit a Nonformal Setting" by Jenna Hoover
September 2022: "Neighbor2Neighbor: A Community Action Research Project to Scaffold Transitions Towards Sustainability" by Melanie Schikore