Dear Jessica and all, Dave Ciplet (now at UC-Boulder) did this simulation in our Power, Justice and Climate Change class in 2013 and we've both done it since a couple times. It pits NGOs against each other in the search for (a fictitious) foundation funding. This is the reality, sadly, for environmental NGOs, and/but the work gets the students diving into what their group is doing. You can have students work in pairs or threesomes in drafting these 2-3 page proposals, which they summarize for the class, and then one group is the funding agency who determines which to fund. We have used contrasting types of groups, like Greenpeace, Oxfam, Nature Conservancy, some small and grassroots and EJ or Climate Justice groups, and so on. This is for a twice a week class, so they have 1-2 days prep beforehand to peruse the groups' websites. he has cooked up a shorter version for times without the advance prep.
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Please include your organization’s total annual revenue and expenses. Be prepared to give a 5-minute pitch to our Foundation’s Executive Board about the merits of your proposal. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Dabelko, Geoffrey <dabel...@ohio.edu> wrote: > Jessica, > > > > In an environmental leadership class, I’ve found good engagement from > focusing on the Goldman Prize winners. For reasonably sized classes I > assign each student one year of award winners to review. The Goldman > website has short overviews of each winner organized by year, their > acceptance speeches, and short videos about them). Depending on class size, > I have them write short strength/weaknesses pieces and/or pick one to > feature in a short presentation to the class (and if time allows, we watch > a couple of the short profile videos). > > > > To provide some overview structure, I assign the piece Jeff Langholz and a > number of his students did analyzing a couple of decades of Goldman > winners. Their breakdown of strategies adopted varying by environmental > issue, form of government, etc gives some sense of patterns and a macro > view. It provides them some insight on the need to adopt different > strategies depending on situation. > > > > Given the award winners include a North American each year but is > otherwise internationally focused, it also provides some easier bridges to > the international for students who typically have focused domestically. > > > > Best, > > Geoff > > > > Geoff Dabelko > > Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Program > > Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs > > The Ridges, Bldg 22 Rm 119 > > 1 Ohio University > > Athens, OH 45701 USA > > T: 740-593-2117 > > dabel...@ohio.edu > > www.ohio.edu/environmentalstudies > > www.facebook.com/OhioES > > www.twitter.com/OhioES > > www.twitter.com/geoffdabelko > > > > Senior Advisor, Environmental Change and Security Program > > Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC > > www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp > > www.newsecuritybeat.org > > > > *From:* gep-ed@googlegroups.com [mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Jessica Green > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 03, 2016 3:40 PM > *To:* gep-ed@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [gep-ed] Assignments for an Enviro Activism class? > > > > Dear GEP-ed-ers, > > It's that time of the summer -- syllabus prep! I'm teaching a class on > environmental activism. The last time around, I had an assignment where > the students had to profile an activist organization and provide some > analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, per the literature we had read. > It didn't go over as well as I would have liked. > > I'm wondering if any of you have assignments that involve engaging with / > learning about real life activist organizations, and how you've framed them > and what types of deliverables are involved. Happy to compile and share if > anyone is interested. > > With thanks in advance, > > Jessica > > > -- > > Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies > > New York University > > Author,* Rethinking Private Authority* > <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10148.html> > Winner, 2015 ISA Sprout Award, 2015 APSA Caldwell Award, 2015 Levine Prize > > Website <https://wp.nyu.edu/jessica_green/> > > Advising page <https://goo.gl/Ty0H3E> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Timmons www.climatedevlab.brown.edu Collaboration|Impact|Mentorship|Sustainability|Justice Just out June 2016: *The Globalization and Environment Reader*. Peter Newell and Timmons Roberts. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118964136.html J. Timmons Roberts Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology Brown University https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17 Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, 2012-14 http://www.brookings.edu/experts/robertst Co-Director, The Climate and Development Lab: http://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu timm...@brown.edu; skype: timmonsroberts; on Twitter @timmonsroberts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
