The CLEO Institute, founded in 2010, is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization in Florida exclusively dedicated to climate education and advocacy. CLEO provides critical education on the science, impacts, and solutions while making it personal, with a climate justice lens to empower people to join the movement. Building community resilience and adaptive capacity require an informed, engaged, and prepared public. Therefore, CLEO works with governmental, business, academic, and community leaders to advocate for long-term and inclusive solutions.
CLEO’s top-down, bottom-up approach is empowering Florida, the most vulnerable state to climate impacts. Annually CLEO engages over 15,000 people through programs, trainings, webinars, etc. Thousands of people we educate and engage have amplified climate education and advocacy in their communities, making our ripple effect immeasurable. Our free community programs continue to receive more participants every year; programs requiring multiple workshops and certifications are also seeing higher retention rates. CLEO relies heavily on annual grants and is grateful for the individual donors that can help support our programs and help us continue our work.