Partners
CELF builds partnerships with many organizations as we develop programs and client services. We work with the partners below on a regular basis.
Creative Change Educational Solutions
CELF partners with this Michigan-based curriculum development organization on many national projects. Susan Santone, CCES’s Executive Director, has been a curriculum consultant and facilitator for the CELF Summer Institute since 2006.
The Global Footprint Network
The Global Footprint Network is the leading think tank behind ecological footprinting science. The Network uses National Footprint Accounts to measure the ecological resource use and resource capacity of 150 nations, generating footprints from 1961 to the present, based on approximately 5,400 data points per country per year. CELF's partnership with GFN provides our school Eco‑Footprint Program with the most current ecological footprint science, research and methodologies.
Green Schools Alliance
GSA is an inclusive, global peer-to-peer network of “schools guiding schools,” working together to address environmental and climate challenges through sharing and implementing best practices and connecting students to nature.
Manhattanville College of Education
CELF partners with Manhattanville College to present the CELF Summer Institutes: Educating for a Sustainable Future. The partnership allows participants to obtain in-service or graduate credits for the participating institute.
Manhattanville College educates candidates to become ethically and socially responsible teachers, administrators and school leaders.
Pace University
CELF partners with Pace University to present CELF’s annual Students for a Sustainable Future EXPO.
CELF works with Simmons College in Boston, MA to present CELF's annual Boston Summer Institutes to generate curriculum for a change.
Through our annual Summer Institute hosted at the Boston Latin School, CELF joined forces with the BLS Youth CAN program: A student run organization that works to bring together a variety of youth groups to address global climate change and spread awareness about environmental issues. Together with CELF lessons were created that will become part of the MA Education for Sustainability (EfS) Campaign: a grass-roots, student-led effort to incorporate sustainability into the Massachusetts school curriculum.
The National Wildlife Federation is the largest conservation organization in America that works to protect wildlife and their habitat, restore and maintain healthy ecosystems, and strives to educate and inspire Americans to safeguard the country’s natural heritage. They also aim to reconnect children to the natural world in order to foster appreciation for wildlife and nature.
Eco-Schools is an international program for environmental education and management, which aims to raise students' awareness of sustainable development issues through classroom study as well as school and community action.
The NYC DOE manages the public school system in New York City and serves more than 1.1 million students and their families in over 1,700 schools.
Boston Department of Education
The Boston Department of Education controls the public school district of Boston Massachusetts. It is the oldest public school systems in America.
The Green Schools Coalition of Westchester is a coalition of public and independent schools that seeks to advance education and best practices for sustainability in the schools and communities across Westchester County.
