Welcome to Frontline Academy

Turn your experience into career growth. Find paid gigs, earn certifications, and access clean energy and advocacy jobs near you

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Choose Your Track

Data Collection & Advocacy

Use photos, mapping, and insights to influence local planning and drive equity

Field-based assignments

e.g., tree counts, indoor air quality audits

Get experience with the latest tech

Eligible for scholarships + Advance Team roles

Perfect for Storytelling, GIS & Community Planning

Use your local knowledge and creative eye to shape data-driven change in your neighborhood

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Dream Skills: Advocacy & Outreach

Speak up for your community. Learn to organize, message, and campaign

Cohort-based with live Zoom sessions

Choose from Digital Campaign or Data Advocacy track

Eligible for scholarships + Advance Team roles

Want to get started now?

Try the Dream Advocacy Readiness Badge— a fast-track mini-course to earn a Tier 1 badge and qualify for early cohort invites

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Dream Skills Readiness Badge

Jumpstart your journey with this 2-hour mini experience

What you’ll do:

Learn to Earn Trust, Not Assume It. Explore how to build credibility in community spaces by showing up with humility, listening first, and earning permission to lead.

Identify What Matters Most in Your Neighborhood. Map local environmental and economic concerns - like air quality, utility burden, or green space - and connect them to real-world roles.

Recognize Your Story as a Leadership Asset. Understand how your lived experience makes you uniquely qualified to lead, advocate, or organize in your community.

Practice the Skills That Move People. Build foundational communication skills - storytelling, outreach, reflection - that support career growth and frontline impact.

What you’ll get:

Dream Skills: Advocacy Readiness Badge

Feedback from a peer or facilitator

Priority consideration for a scholarship or next cohort invite

Earn a Scholarship!

Dream.org is offering scholarships for climate, clean energy, and leadership tracks

To qualify:

Complete Kai onboarding

Earn your Readiness Score

Apply for badge-based cohorts or Green Gigs

Higher readiness scores unlock higher-touch opportunities, like stipends, cohort invitations, and job referrals

Start your journey

Featured Talent Story

Daniel

From Green Gig to Crew Lead

Daniel started with a Saturday Green Gig doing tree counts. After completing three field deployments and earning strong peer reviews, he received the Field Insight Contributor badge. From there, he completed a micro-certification in crew leadership and is now helping to coordinate vegetation jobs with a city contractor.

Earn your first Field Insight Badge

Earn Badge

Complete Crew Leadership Training

Complete Training

Jorge

Visual Storyteller to GIS Fellow

Jorge was curious about GIS and wanted to explore data skills. After submitting 5 geo-tagged tree canopy observations through a Green Gig, he earned his Visual Data badge. He then completed the full Visual Data & Advocacy micro-cert and used his one-pager to apply for a GIS mapping fellowship, which he now holds with a local planning department.

Join a tree count or photo-based gig

Join Gig

Start the Data Advocacy Microcertificate

Start Micro-Cert

Submit your insight one-pager

Submit Insight

Latasha

Dream Skills Teaser to Advance Team

Latasha joined Frontline Gig looking for a way to tell her story—and get her foot in the door. She completed the 3-hour Dream Advocacy Readiness Badge, submitted a compelling one-pager, and earned a scholarship to the full Dream Skills cohort.

Within weeks, Latasha was leading digital campaigns for clean energy outreach in her community as part of a Dream.org Advance Team.

Start the Readiness Badge

Apply for a Dream Skills Scholarship

Apply Scholarship

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