Our approach

Surge Climate Talent (SCT) was established to empower the people and organizations championing the global energy transition. Acting as a talent lab, SCT identifies and amplifies the most effective strategies to drive this transition forward.

With a commitment to addressing the talent needs of a just energy transition and the belief that everyone has a role in tackling the climate crisis, CTI operates across three core pillars: Leadership Development, Workforce Development and Ecosystem Support.

Leadership Development 

The Goal | Ensure organizations have the talent to scale to their impact goals

How we do it | Providing opportunities for emerging and/or skilled professionals to enter the climate/energy transition sector and contribute their talent towards helping nonprofits scale and accelerate their impact.

Managing/Direct Funding Program examples                        

  1. Climate Finance Fellowship        

  2. Clean Energy Incubator

  3. Climate Career Bridge Fellowship

Advising/ Aligned Funding

  1. Existing Campaigners Fellowship

  2. Climate Communications Fellowship

  3. African Climate Legal Fellows

Workforce Development 

The Goal | Ensure talent is not a bottleneck for clean energy rollout

How we do it | Enabling pathways for recruiting, skilling (and re-skilling) of the workforce powering the clean energy sector at scale.


Ecosystem Support

The Goal | Establish investing in talent as a vital piece of the climate puzzle

How we do it | Fostering the growth of the talent ecosystem for climate action through convening, thought leadership and advising philanthropies on talent funding, including through:

  1. Managing/supporting talent-related grantmaking for foundations

  2. Convening funders around workforce development strategies during New York Climate Week 2024

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