Boards & Commissions Fellowships

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People Power
May 14, 2024
Fostering Future Environmental Leaders: South Carolina’s Boards and Commissions Fellowship Program Launch

Many leaders get their start by serving on a local board or commission. Learn how one state fellowship program helps prepare future leaders to serve their communities.

May 14, 2024
A group of 16 people, diverse in gender, race and age, pose together on a staircase.
Nov 1, 2023
“It Is Your Space and You Have a Right to Be Here.” Service is for Everyone, Says Boards and Commissions Fellowship Alumna Shari Baber

Shari Baber never felt that City Hall was a place for her, until she became the first Black woman to serve on the Boise Parks and Recreations Commission. A 2021 graduate of the Conservation Voters Movement’s Boards and Commissions Fellowship, Shari reflects on how the program prepared her to serve on the commission and to understand how government policy can drive social justice.

Nov 1, 2023

Shanthi Gonzales

Shari Baber, LCVEF Boards & Commissions alumna
Oct 4, 2023
Why LCV Education Fund is Investing in Local Boards and Commissions

The Fellowship program aims to ensure that the people influencing environmental policy are reflective of their communities, and that we are increasing the share of environmental leaders serving on boards and commissions.

Oct 4, 2023

Shanthi Gonzales

Colorado Boards & Commissions Fellows on a bus headed to an event smile and wave at the camera.
Feb 14, 2023
Boards & Commissions Fellowships

LCV Education Fund’s grant program supports Boards and Commissions Fellowship programs led by our state affiliates in the Conservation Voter Movement. Fellows are drawn from our state affiliates and allied community organizations. The fellowship is intended to recruit racially diverse, values-aligned environmental leaders and help them to secure appointments to boards and commissions that can help to advance a clean energy and pro-environment agenda.

A North Carolina League of Conservation Voters staff member poses for a photo with fellows of the Boards & Commissions program in North Carolina