3,000 low-income CaliforniaThe stipend comes from the recently formed California College Corps which provides the stipend in exchange for 450 hours of community service work, which includes climate change activism.
The program began last year, but now includes 3,200 students across 46 CA universities, “roughly the size of the U.S. Peace Corps,” as noted by500 of the students are AB 540 CA Dream Act students, aAs noted on the , “50%” of the participants will be “tutors or mentors in K-12 education,” “28%” will work “to address food insecurity,” but the remaining “22%” will be “taking climate action.”searched numerous sources to find details of what “taking climate action” refers to, but found no specific details listed online.
Cristian Valdivia Chief Communications and External Affairs Officer at California Volunteers explained in an email tothat “climate actions include wildfire mitigation , energy conservation, urban greening , waste diversion, food rescue and environmental education.”