Become a 4WARD Local Climate Lead
Want to help build your city's climate & sustainability scene?
Apply to become a 4WARD City Leader to host events that bring together local sustainability stakeholders & advance your city's climate ecosystem.
What is 4WARD.earth?
Become a 4WARD local city leader!
Want to be an ambassador leading our local-to-global movement in your city? Love organizing events that bring together innovators, investors & thought leaders?
Join us in our mission to accelerate climate and sustainability impact locally (and globally) through networking, partnerships and spontaneous collaboration by leading our community & events in your city.
How does it work?
1. Apply & share why you'd like to be a 4WARD city lead
2. Speak with our city events team to see if it's a fit.
3. Complete our onboarding to get you up to speed.
4. Access our tools & systems for simple event & community mgmt.
5. Plan your 1st event & promote through our global network
6. Continue growing the local group with events every 1-2 months
Why you should apply
As a 4WARD City Lead, you'll gain leadership experience, build your network and knowledge base and becoming the center of your local ecosystem as the go to player on all things climate & sustainability.
We empower City Leads with:
Hands-on training and community building guides
A personal 4WARD city events rep to help with events & promotion
A complete events and community management infrastructure
Tools & templates to simplify hosting great events & community
A local sustainability WhatsApp group for your city
Access to City Lead-only spaces and networking on 4WARD platform
Regular city lead meet & great networking calls with other regions
Exposure & a premium City Lead badge on your community profile
What's required?
Building community & driving sustainable impact requires consistency & action.
4WARD.earth City Leads organize at least 6 meetups or events per year.
4WARD City Leads are responsible for:
Finding a fun venue for your meetups (bar, coffeeshop, restaurant etc....)
Hosting at least 6 events in your city per year (the more, the merrier)
Publishing your event via our dedicated Luma city calendar
Promoting your event to your network and local community (we'll help too!)
Sharing your event in our local city WhatsApp group
Greeting guests creating a positive event & networking atmosphere (we have guides)
Having fun (if you enjoy the event, others will as well :)
Why City Leads love 4WARD
Kriti Gupta | Vancouver
CEO of Nori
Margaret Amein | Frankfurt
Climate Lead of MassChallenge Swiss
Kevin Kyer | Geneva
CEO of Pyrpose
Frequently Asked Questions
about City Lead program
Of course not!
This is completely up to you and what feels right for the local community. Some cities do drinks or dinners, others prefer coffee, an early brunch or a community hike. You can organise a city cleanup day, climate board game night or whatever suits your fancy and allows local members to connect & network in an authentic way...
Pick your favourite bar/restaurant/coffeeshop etc... and call for a reservation. That's it. We're happy to help with suggestions if you need any.
We promote local events for our 1000s of global members & tens of thousands of followers and subscribers to help drive community interest and turn out.
We also provide simple yet effective systems & tools boost event attendance and interest while also growing the local city WhatsApp community.
Words from our founder
"Our mission is to bring together and help align all stakeholder incentives to facilitate collaboration and true climate impact at an unprecedented scale... Because we are all on "Team Planet", and only together, can we face and overcome humanity's greatest challenge."
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