Tools:
- Gold Leaf Challenge Welcome Guide - Find everything you need to know about the challenge in one place.
- Gold Leaf Actions and Resource Sheets - Find all 44 of the Gold Leaf actions and their resource sheets.
- Reporting Actions and Goals - Find reporting options for current GreenStep Cities & Tribal Nations participants and for other communities.
- If you would like more options for sharing your actions, check out Gold Leaf Reporting Options.
- Workplans and Community Project Spreadsheet - An optional workplan to help you identify, prioritize, and track Gold Leaf actions for your community. The Community Project Spreadsheet provides an overview of what other communities are working on and can help you find opportunities to connect and collaborate with each other.
- Gold Leaf Challenge Development Report - A report about the development of the Gold Leaf program. Learn more about program goals, process, pilot program, and more.
- Additional Assistance - Find more contact information, AmeriCorps programs, technical assistance programs, community-wide visioning and reports, funding, data, and more.
Summer Internship Program - APPLY NOW:
The Gold Leaf Challenge is partnering with the University of Minnesota Sustainability Corps to coordinate student interns with Challenge participants for the Summer of 2024. The purpose of the internship is to help your organization participate in The Gold Leaf Challenge by helping to research, plan, and accomplish Actions or Goals. To apply, please ensure that you have filled out the form to join the Gold Leaf Challenge prior to filling out this application.
Virtual Open Office Hours:
Virtual Open Office Hours for Gold Leaf Challenge participants are available weekly. Hop in any time – no need to let us know if you are coming! You will enter a lobby and wait to join so that you are the only one "in" the office. The link is the same for all days.
- Every Tuesday from 8:30-9:30am
Frequently Asked Questions:
- See the FAQs about the Gold Leaf Challenge
- Find common climate change - related acronyms and a glossary (Minnesota Climate Action Framework, 2022)
Contact Us:
- Ask questions to better understand the Gold Leaf Challenge.
- Clarify where to find different types of resources on the website.
- Request a personal visit to your community.
- Ask for help in connecting volunteers to needed work in your community.
- Update your Gold Leaf contact information.
- Get help with documenting your accomplishments.
- Make suggestions for improving the program.
- Report errors on the website and identify broken web links.
- Contact information (phone and email) for the GreenStep staff and best practice advisors.