Every year, we witness a rising tide of awareness and activism among young people, demanding accountability and tangible change. At Shake Up The Establishment (SUTE), our commitment to progress in climate justice remains unwavering. 

SUTE continues to be a catalyst in this movement, empowering youth with the skills, training, and community they need to drive systemic change and hold policy makers accountable. 

However, despite the accolades and recognition, the reality is sobering. Youth-led climate justice initiatives receive less than 0.1% of available funding, underscoring the systemic barriers we face. 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 & sustainable futures we deserve.

Help Us Sustain Our Impact in 2024

We are actively seeking long-term ethical funding in order to maintain and scale up our programming. As a volunteer-run organization, we also hope to be able to offer more paid part-time roles to the young leaders that make up our community-centred project teams. The best way to help us is by making a donation— even your daily coffee amount helps, especially if you’re able to do it monthly! 

Highlights from the Last Year

Among a plethora of achievements, last year we published our first book, hosted an event with over 100 changemakers in support of the impactful Sue Big Oil campaign, which strives to hold fossil fuel companies accountable, and supported the Youth Climate Corps campaign with numerous in-person demonstrations and petitions for Federal Ministers in BC and Ontario to push for more equitable, well-funded green jobs for youth. Excitingly, the Youth Climate Corps ask is now in the Federal budget (#win!). Our Executive Director, Manvi, also served as the host for the Vancouver Climate Strike, and discussed the importance of youth-led climate justice initiatives.

We also are proud to share that:

💫 We collectively contributed 9,500 volunteer hours towards our collective futures, and created 32 paid opportunities for youth to grow professionally within the climate justice movement

💫 Our team is made up of a rich, diverse cohort of intelligent, passionate and highly motivated change makers– more specifically: 

• 93% of members self -identify as women or gender-diverse

• 38% of leadership positions are held by individuals who self-identify as racially-minoritized

• 39% of members self-identify as neurodiverse

• 75% leadership positions are occupied by individuals who self-identify as women

• 46% of members at SUTE self-identify with a diverse sexual orientation

• 100% of our Board of Directors self-identify as women, 50% of these are racially-minoritized women

• Members of our community collectively speak 14 different languages

💫 Our educational resources reached nearly 80k people from 29 countries through our website, social media and podcast

These updates offer just highlights across the breadth of work that our youth leaders did to progress intersectional climate justice across what is currently Canada. Be sure to read more about our mission, work, program impacts, financial responsibility and read a letter from the Chair of our Board, Christina Di Carlo, in our 2023 Annual Report here: ShakeUpTheEstab.org/post/report2023

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