California Climate Leaders Fellowship
The California Climate Leaders Fellowship (CCLF), now in its second year of collaboration with The California Endowment, is a year-long program designed to resource equity-focused climate leaders with the skills to meet local climate resilience needs, and to meaningfully advance California’s movement for climate resilience.
Each cohort is representative of the diverse fields working to secure a better future, with multi-sector representatives including philanthropic leaders and place-based organizers, economic development and financial innovators, and creative thinkers from across the state. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to learn more about the vital and dynamic work of these Fellows and CCI’s climate resilience network.
Ready to Shape California's climate future?
CCI is pleased to announce that applications for our next cohort of state leaders for the California Climate Leaders Fellowship will be open from August 26, 2025 through October 17th, 2025.
We are at a critical turning point.
Collaboration across fields and at scale is critical to creating equitable outcomes within a climate security framework for communities across California.
The California Climate Leaders Fellowship addresses the challenges created by climate change—especially in the BIPOC, immigrant, and rural California communities that struggle to get their fair share of resources despite their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. This requires not just advocacy, but also investment and system change.
Transforming systems is what CCI does.
Why Now?
CCI’s work is focused on creating a network of practitioners with tools and skills to improve access to capital for community-led development in historically disinvested communities. As climate impacts become increasingly evident, these climate justice practitioners will help lead the way to creating more climate-resilient communities. To catalyze this essential work, California Climate Leaders Fellows will:
Use the Capital Absorption Framework to create and activate a robust pipeline of investable, high-impact opportunities that address local climate resilience priorities, including infrastructure
Apply systems thinking to thrive as climate leaders and inspire and facilitate powerful collaborations in alignment with racial equity priorities
Design strategies and take action on urgent climate resilience and equity issues within their communities, with a particular attention to scale, systems change, and community leadership
Build critical self-awareness and mindsets needed to inspire and facilitate powerful collaborations
Learn about financial tools to achieve greater scale and impact
Join an active and racially diverse network of committed, mutually supportive leaders working toward similar goals.
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