In 2020, California Volunteers, with funding from CV Fund, launched the California Climate Action Corps (CCAC), the country’s first state-level Climate Corps. As a part of California’s comprehensive strategy to address the climate crisis, California Volunteers, Office of the Governor created California Climate Action Corps, the country’s first state-level, climate service corps to empower all Californians to take meaningful action to safeguard the climate.

The California Climate Action Corps Fellowship places a statewide force of emerging leaders with tribal communities, nonprofits, public agencies and educational institutions to mobilize communities through volunteer engagement, climate action and education service projects. Since its inception, Fellows have engaged tens of thousands of volunteers in climate action, planted or maintained hundreds of thousands of trees and diverted millions of pounds of food and organic waste from landfills.