Community Partners

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The INVST Program works with solutionaries in our community to address the challenges facing humanity. We work locally in the Boulder/Denver region where INVST students apprentice with community organizers who engage in solving eco-social problems.

Ways we work in our community include: intervening in inequitable food, healthcare and education systems; resisting the targeting of immigrants for deportation; combating racism, both structural and interpersonal; ameliorating inequity exacerbated by climate change; addressing housing unaffordability, especially for those from minoritized social groups; and fighting environmental racism.

The INVST Program is engaging students at CU Boulder in eco-social transformation. Ruha Benjamin, in Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) speaks of radical imagination as a key to bringing about eco-social justice, saying, “Remember to imagine + craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” This captures the essence of collaborative, community-based work by The INVST Program!

INVST appreciates all those who share our vision of a just and sustainable world. The following organizations are just a few of our Community Partners. Our students have worked as volunteers, interns and apprentices with these partners and friends, as well as with other change makers:

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INVST students may have the opportunity to earn a stipend for their required community-based action.

Interested in an internship in environmental sustainability? There are even more options! Visit our friends in Environmental Studies. Those INVST students who are also ENVS majors can fulfill both internship requirements at the same time.