MISSION

ELA Nonprofit Consulting’s mission is to research and teach optimal human responses to growing conflicts and unprecedented global risks with emphasis on optimizing advanced research technological knowledge, including Artificial Intelligence; fostering higher ambition and accelerated action to limit climate change; and facilitating the development of public servants and public service organizations who are facing barriers to market entry in these endeavors.

HISTORY

ELA Nonprofit Consulting was founded as Environment Bolivia in late 2004 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and later did business as Environment las Americas/Bolivia. We began working on climate change politics and diplomacy in 2006. The reader can view a selection of our policy papers dating back to 2009. We are a 501 (c) 3 incorporated in Maine, USA under our original name. As of 2024, we started doing business as ELA Nonprofit Consulting due to our supportive role for nonprofits whose organizations are in alignment with our mission statement and ways of working.

CONSULTING

ELA Nonprofit Consulting currently provides support to further the missions of Citizens’ Climate Education, Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Citizens’ Climate International through linking the organizations to broader audiences and providing supplementary content through collaboration.

We are taking on new paying and pro bono clients in the areas of leveraging AI and Advanced Technologies in research, organizational development, nonprofit governance, communications strategy, conflict optimization, U.S. college placement for future public servants, and cybersecurity, as our time and resources permit. Fees are on a sliding scale, based on organizational or individual income and asset verification.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Since our founding in 2004, ELA Nonprofit Consulting has engaged in many research, advocacy, publishing and presentation activities, many of which the reader will be able to find in this website, as it develops.

During our 20th anniversary year, 2024, ELA Nonprofit Consulting, in collaboration with the Blue Hill—Hancock County, Maine Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, facilitated 6 Bolivians’ participation in the CCL National Conference and Lobbying Day, which took place June 7th through June 11th. We built a website and a list of citizen risk leaders. We publish blogs and a newsletter, AI & Climate Leadership.

2024-2025 AGENDA

ELA publishes toward optimizing Artificial Intelligence, facilitating climate change leadership, and improving nonprofit organization leadership, privacy and cybersecurity in the face of unprecedented risks and impacts in the sector.

In late 2024 and 2025, in addition to continuing our outreach work through our website and newsletter, ELA Nonprofit Consulting aspires to build international Al and climate change leadership through two projects: 1) send Bolivian climate change leaders to Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s National Conference and Lobbying Day in July of 2025 or 2026. The goal, in collaboration with Citizens’ Climate International and Citizens’ Climate Lobby, is to build international climate leaders’ knowledge, skills, and abilities, particularly as regards the legislative process and climate science, as U.S participants learn from their international colleagues; and 2) co-lead an AI in Higher Education Research conference in 2026.

Global catastrophic risk.