ee360+ Quarterly Newsletter for March 2024

Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Movement Through Collective Impact

Volume 3, April 5, 2024

Welcome to the Spring 2024 edition of our quarterly ee360+ partners newsletter. From innovative approaches for engaging diverse communities and individuals across the United States, to the growing impact of work being done by our international Fellows, this edition highlights the far-reaching impacts of the ee360+ initiative. Tracking this impact is often a challenge, and our evaluator shares how they use zip code tracking to estimate the geographic impact on vulnerable communities.

Thank you to all of our partners in this collaboration, and special thanks to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for supporting this important work.

Collaborating for Change

Read featured blogs from the series, Ripple Effect, highlighting stories of impact and collaboration among partners in the ee360+ Leadership and Training Collaborative. We're also sharing a couple of posts from our CEE-Change Fellows about their work.

Map of continental U.S. in grey with pink dots scattered across the states

How Program Evaluators Track the Ripple Effect

Using zip codes and mapping, COSI Center for Research and Evaluation is demonstrating ee360+'s progress towards equity, diversity, and justice goals. Read more in the latest Ripple Effect blog post.

Group photo of the NAAEE Affiliates in Tucson

Building Bridges (and Capacity) Through ee360+ Affiliate Grants

NAAEE Affiliate Network works to build capacity for environmental education at the local level and centers justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the field with support from ee360+.

A group photo of students wearing white hard hats next to a solar panel

Providing Educators and Students with a Toolkit for Green Careers

Created by SEI, the Career Connections Toolkit helps job seekers interested in green careers search and explore sustainability professions.

CEE Change Fellow Ritchie Tusabe meeting with the Dakabela Primary School under the shade of a tree with tables organized in a circle

From Ssese Islands to Global Stages

CEE-Change Fellow Richard (Ritchie) Tusabe seeks to bridge the gap between schools, communities, and leadership to promote environmental education in Ugandan classrooms. Join him on a journey through his community action project for the CEE-Change Fellowship.

Two photos side-by-side: on the left, CEE Change Fellow Aneesa Jamal conducting a Young Climate Authors Program in a forest, and on the right, a group gathers for a photo

Expanding Reach from Local to Global

CEE Change Fellow Aneesa Jamal shares how the Fellowship helped expand the Young Climate Authors Program to educators and professionals across three continents, educating communities on climate change and climate justice through writing, illustration, and publishing.

ee360+ by the Numbers

Midyear Reporting, Year 3

At the midpoint of Year 3 in the ee360+ Cooperative Agreement, our consortium has trained nearly 6,000 EE leaders and educators in high-quality EE programs, the Guidelines for Excellence, and effective practices for advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We estimate that these educators reached an additional 1.4 million youth, families, community members, and others with meaningful EE experiences. NAAEE and its partners are on track to meet or exceed their targets for the year ending May 31, 2024.

"5,570 educators directly reached; on track to meet or exceed target of 11,000" "1.4 million educators indirectly reached; on track to meet or exceed target of 4.3 million"

"368,593 visits to eePRO, on track to exceed target of 400,000" "26+ national, state, and local partners; over $2 million invested in community-based environmental education"

Hear from ee360+ Year 3 Activity Participants

“I've always been nervous to try adding civic engagement to my programs, but the training showed me that it would be possible.” —University of Florida In-Service Training Participant

“The guidelines can help you better connect with your community and will get you to consider perspectives other than your own.” —Guidelines Training Participant

“Important, community space for recognizing and processing challenges in my organization and life.” —Participant in CDE's DEI training

“This guide has everything I wish was in education throughout schools and communities! I love that it puts a huge emphasis on climate justice rather than mentioning it in passing. I also love that it mentions the mental health impacts of climate change and shows how to drive climate solutions on a local level through meaningful individual and collective action.” —Reviewer of the Guidelines for Excellence

When asked how they will change their practices after the Project Wet training, one participant responded: “I will not be afraid to teach about climate change.”

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This email bulletin is funded by the Office of Environmental Education at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through ee360+, the Environmental Education and Training Program led by NAAEE under Assistance Agreement No. NT 84019001. It has not been formally reviewed by EPA. The views expressed in this document are solely those of NAAEE, and EPA does not endorse any products or commercial services mentioned in this publication.