Gen:Thrive offers a data-driven approach to explore local community needs, identify partnership opportunities, and amplify resources focused on environmental literacy, climate justice, healthy school buildings, outdoor learning, and green workforce development.
About Gen:Thrive
Imagine if every school in the country had the tools to provide a robust environmental literacy education to their students. Imagine the power of an entire generation ready and resourced to build just, thriving, and healthy communities. The future is promising and close. The goals of Gen:Thrive are the following:
Understand the Movement
Map environmental literacy programs and correlate to data indicators for equity and climate vulnerability.
Build Strategic Alliances
Bolster connectivity among K-12 program providers and identify opportunities to partner and accelerate collective impact.
Increase Support
Use data visualization to create compelling value propositions, expand audiences, and drive new resources to the movement.
In 2019, EcoRise launched Gen:Thrive as a pilot project in Texas with the vision of building tools that could expand to serve communities across the country. With participation and feedback from over 1,500 organizations, Gen:Thrive and our partners have surveyed all 50 states to create interactive dashboards, resource directories, and climate equity maps.
The early development and growth of this project would not be possible without technical support from the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center and from UT’s Planet Texas 2050 team and early philanthropic investments from the Pisces Foundation, the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, the Environmental Fund of Texas, and the Meadows Foundation.
