Every month in 2024, we are highlighting the work of Give Lively member nonprofits in one category of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. 

The United Nations website states that “the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”

We find inspiration and insight from these selected nonprofits and hope you do too. Is your nonprofit engaged in similar work? Use the feedback tool at the bottom of this article to tell us about it.

‍SDG Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

The Nonprofits

Global Co Lab Network

This organization empowers teens globally with a focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Any teen can learn about the SDGs and then submit their suggestions for addressing these goals with a short video in Global Co Lab Network’s annual global video challenge, Teens Dream, now in its 11th year. The nonprofit also hosts weekly, virtual, teen-led gatherings, called SDG Hubs, addressing equality, climate change, mental health, quality education, hunger and plastic pollution, plus a Hub for Turkish teens for peace education and young women in Afghanistan. This past year the Global Co Lab Network produced an award-winning, 20-minute educational docu-drama by teens for teens entitled “Youth Voices on the UN Goals.” The Co Lab takes teens yearly to the United Nation's High Level Political Forum in New York City to advocate on the SDGs. 

Global Co Lab Network uses a Give Lively-powered Branded Donation Widget to collect donations on its website. 

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Parking Reform Network

This nonprofit educates the public about the impact of parking policy on climate change, equity, housing and traffic. In partnership with allied organizations, the Parking Reform Network accelerates the adoption of critical parking reforms through research, coalition-building and direct advocacy. Parking policy plays a big role in the story of how we ended up with sprawl, climate change and a growing crisis of housing availability and affordability. By reforming these policies we can make better progress on our climate, transportation, and housing goals.

The Parking Reform Network uses a Give Lively-powered Simple Donation Widget to collect donations on its website. 

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Big Reuse 

This nonprofit fights climate change through community-based environmental and zero-waste initiatives. Big Reuse programs bring New York City residents together to care for their own green infrastructure and empower communities to embrace composting, tree care and reuse at a grassroots level, citywide and beyond. The Big Reuse Center takes in tens of thousands of donated items that are resold and kept in use by thousands of new owners, keeping them out of the landfill. Big Reuse also helps New Yorkers care for their street trees and sustain city-wide composting programs that collect food scraps and turn them into compost used to enrich soil across NYC and strengthen communities against climate change.

Big Reuse uses a Give Lively-powered Simple Donation Widget with dedications enabled to collect donations on its website. It also used a Campaign Page for its 2HOT2GO Summer Fundraiser.

More nonprofits

For more in our UN SDG series, see the previous article.