To win the fight against the fossil fuel industry – and the authoritarian forces protecting it – the climate movement needs strong, strategic organizers rooted in communities across the country.

Local Leads, Global Impacts is Stop the Money Pipeline’s 9-month leadership development program designed to train, mentor, and support campaigners advancing bold campaigns to end fossil fuel expansion and hold corporate power accountable.

Beginning in February 2026, a cohort of fourteen emerging and experienced climate leaders began the inaugural Local Leads program.

Over nine months, the fourteen participants will have a mentor who they’ll meet with weekly, engage in more than a dozen specialized trainings, and meet regularly as a network to receive peer support in developing and running their campaigns.

Trainings will be led by campaign and organizing experts associated with labor unions, corporate research groups, narrative strategy leaders, and more. Training topics include power mapping; strategic research; organizing 1:1 conversations; how to build effective organizing committees; designing effective narrative strategies; meeting facilitation; and how to run and win campaigns at the local level.

You can view the first 6 months of the Local Leads training curriculum here.

What differentiates Local Leads, Global Impacts from other training programs is that this is not a theoretical training program. All participants are required to be leading, or deeply involved in, a campaign or program in order to participate in the program.

Campaigns that Local Leads participants are leading in 2026 include:

  • Make Polluters Pay campaigns in WA and NJ
  • Utility justice campaign in NV
  • Campaign to get Santander, the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels in Latin America, to end financing for coal, oil, and gas expansion
  • Public bank campaign in the SF Bay Area
  • Campaigns to get local governments to push their banks on climate action in Boston and the SF Bay Area
  • Fights to stop new fossil fuel projects in the Gulf South
  • Indigenous youth leadership development program

Participants in the 2026 Local Leads program include campaigners from the East Coast (Massachusetts, New York, Washington D.C.), Pacific Northwest (Washington), Midwest (Wisconsin), West Coast (California), Southwest (Nevada), and Gulf South (Louisiana) as well as one international participant from Argentina.

If you’re interested in participating in the Local Leads, Global Impacts program in 2027, please fill out this form and we’ll notify you if and when a notification is sent out announcing applications.