Support Climate & Environmental Justice Advocacy for Healthier Futures
Shake Up The Establishment is a national nonprofit leading the advancement of environment, climate and social justice in Canada.
Since 2020, we have reached over 650k people across Canada, created 125+ paid opportunities for youth, created 150+ educational resources and engaged in 40+ policy actions.
We are empowering youth with the skills, training, and community they need to drive systemic changes and are holding policy makers accountable to taking steps towards ensuring sustainable, equitable and healthier futures for all.
We work alongside communities to understand the environmental issues affecting their daily lives, translate those experiences into evidence, and work with decision-makers to improve public policy. By bridging the gap between community priorities and public policy, we help ensure that the voices of those most affected by environmental challenges help shape the decisions that affect their lives.
If you believe in our mission and the work we do, please consider donating to ensure we can keep doing the critical work we do to serve communities across Canada. Your support sustains our efforts and ensures that we can continue to ‘shake up the establishment’, towards the just, equitable, and sustainable futures we deserve.
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What 100% of Your Donations Go Towards
Supporting paid employment and leadership opportunities for young people pursuing careers in research, policy, communications, organizing, and community engagement.
Your support helps us hire students and early-career professionals through full-time positions, internships, fellowships, and contract roles, allowing us to continue creating paid pathways into Canada’s environmental and nonprofit sectors.
Enables us to work directly with communities through consultations, participatory research, and policy engagement so that lived experience informs government decision-making.
Donations are critical to help cover the costs of community engagement, honoraria, facilitation, analysis, and translating findings into recommendations for the public and to share with government officials– work for which there is next to no consistent sources of funding for.
Developing free educational resources, public events, and creative campaigns that help people learn about environmental issues, participate in civic life, and take action in their own communities.
These accessible tools and events make complex policy issues easier to understand and engage with, particularly for those with language barriers.
