Climate Survival
Building a Path Toward Survival
The Climate Mobilization helps movements build up the members, leaders, and economic strategies to win our survival.
Our Approach
Survival and Resilience
The Climate Mobilization is working to build up the
leadership,
participation,
and economic strategies
…our movements need to succeed. For this reason, we’re incubating and resourcing survival and resilience initiatives that meet people’s needs, while helping every person find their place in the movement for grassroots democracy and climate justice.
In 2022-2025, we piloted this strategy in 6+ communities at the front lines of climate disasters and economic crises, and shared what we’ve learned with hundreds of groups across the U.S. through workshops and toolkits.
Now, we are scaling our work through the launch of the inaugural 2025 National Climate Survival Incubator cohort program – which will seed the climate survival movement in 8 additional communities across the U.S.
How We
Create Change
We are caring for our communities so we can abandon extractive systems without abandoning each other.
Rooted in the insights of organizers on the front lines, our Climate Survival programming brings grassroots organizations & leaders together to:
build shared strategies across siloes;
build ecological literacy through disaster resilience skill-based trainings;
and design grassroots survival infrastructure in response to the intersecting crises we face to fuel visionary leadership and social movements.
Our key approaches:
Movement Incubation
The Climate Mobilization’s Movement Incubation programming stems from lessons we’ve heard from organizers on the ground during the past decade of the U.S. climate movement.
Through this approach, we bring previously siloed movement groups and leaders (including housing, mutual aid, land and food sovereignty, international solidarity, climate justice, etc.) into one shared movement for survival by designing shared strategies together.
Workshops, Guidebooks, and Movement Education
Since 2022, we have facilitated dozens of workshops, trainings, strategy sessions – and generated input on our approach – from 1650+ leaders and 47+ organizations from across the climate justice movement.
Climate Survival skill-based trainings and infrastructure development
We resource skill-based trainings and infrastructure development for emerging climate survival hubs in multiple communities across the country.
This infrastructure and skill-building is about meeting people’s needs and fundamentally shifting who has the power to make decisions about land, water, our ecology, and our survival.
National network development
After 3 years of piloting our climate survival approach, we are launching the first National Climate Survival Incubator Cohort to seed the climate survival movement in 8+ additional communities across the country.
Our national network organizing is creating critical spaces where local groups can learn about each other’s survival organizing approaches and build trans-local solidarity.
Launching November 2025
Announcing the National Climate Survival Incubator
Our goal: design & launch climate survival initiatives in 8+ communities at the front lines of climate collapse.
The National Climate Survival Incubator builds on acclaimed incubator programs that we offered in 2024-2025 for 47+ organizations in 6 Southern and Southwestern cities.
Now, we are bringing 15 young BIPOC leaders together to plant the seeds of our survival in 8 more communities.
Their mutual aid, disaster resilience, food and land sovereignty, and water & energy resilience projects will access a pool of $10,000 to launch survival projects, trainings, or infrastructure development that they design over the course of the cohort.
Participating leaders will also receive training, network connections, and fundraising support to make their visionary ideas possible.
All cohort participants will attend an in-person gathering in Spring 2026 offering hands-on training from grassroots leaders who are building power through climate survival infrastructure and skill-building.
Reach out to us if you are interested in partnering with us on the the National Climate Survival Incubator Cohort using our partnerships form below.
Pilot Programs
A closer look at case studies from our work
We incubate climate survival programs by providing hands-on support for organizations to learn and plan together, meet people’s needs, and build up the movement’s economic resources, membership and leadership.
Below are some case studies of our work resourcing and piloting climate survival programs.
“People need options – not just ideas.”
Timeline of Our
Climate Survival Initiative
Since 2023, our team has been piloting local survival and resilience projects while developing a national network for climate survival. Our work is rooted in building hyperlocal infrastructure, and amplifying local case studies to our national network.
Phase 1 (2023)
Launch
We conducted public workshops, trainings, strategy & network development, and generated input on our vision from thousands of people and dozens of organizations across the climate justice movement.
Phase 2 (2024)
Pilot
We piloted climate survival and resilience initiatives as a community organizing strategy in 6 communities through 6-8 month movement incubation programs in each local community or state that we work alongside.
Phase 3 (2025+)
Scale
We will seed & resource survival approaches in 9+ additional communities through the 2025-2026 National Climate Survival Incubator, and launch a national peer-learning network of climate survival hubs across the country by 2027.