EJ Outreach Coordinator With Earthday365

EJ Outreach Coordinator with earthday365

earthday365 is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) whose mission is to inspire and mobilize a collaborative movement towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable St.

Louis region - every day.

We have a major focus on centering equity within the environmental movement, and for that reason we have worked to incorporate environmental justice into each of our programs. This position would be focusing on our Green Dining Alliance and Environmental Justice Days of Action. The Green Dining Alliance, or GDA, is a sustainability certification program with a network of 84 restaurants in the St.

Louis region who are audited annually using a 700 point sustainability audit. The GDA Program Manager has been working with a cohort of community leaders who care about vacancy and plastic litter, and have been identifying businesses and restaurants to reach out to and offer education, plastic-free alternatives, and grants to help switch to single-use plastic alternatives. The Environmental Justice Days of Action has held 38 clean-ups and garden days in neighborhoods experiencing illegal dumping and food apartheid, which have collected over 57,928 lbs of illegally dumped trash to date.

These Days of Action partner with community groups already focused on illegal dumping, and bring resources such as volunteer outreach, promotion, safety training, food, restrooms, dumpsters, tools, bags, and gloves. This VISTA assignment is part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 Green VISTA Corps Program which seeks to help historically underserved communities support environmental stewardship and anti-poverty efforts.

The program is focused on creating new partnerships with local organizations in the Region 7 geographic area to support capacity-building projects that will support poverty alleviation and advance efforts to protect human health and the environment. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties : Organize, support, and attend Environmental Justice Days of Action (EJDA), develop partnerships with additional schools and faith communities, contribute to outreach and promotion of events to gain volunteers, facilitate and gather input and feedback from community forums, develop and test educational programming when requested by community organizations, recruit businesses to join the Green Dining Alliance (GDA), assist with GDA outreach such as determining composting subsidies and identifying single-use plastic alternatives.

Program Benefits : Education award upon successful completion of service , Health Coverage* , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Training , Relocation Allowance , Childcare assistance if eligible , Living Allowance , Transportation Assistance .

Terms :

Car recommended , Permits working at another job during off hours .

Service Areas :

Neighborhood Revitalization , Community Outreach , Environment .

Skills :

Recruitment , Communications , Community Organization , Environment , Leadership , Recycling Knowledge .