Our Children'S Trust

“The board reviews the form 990, has the opportunity to have all questions answered by staff and/or cpa relative to the form, and thereafter approves a unanimous consent resolution authorizing the signing and filing of the form.”

“All board members are required to disclose a potential conflict of interest and remove themselves from any decision-making process or voting on a matter related to the conflict. All members monitor for potential conflicts of interest. The executive director and the board president ensure that conflict disclosures are made and explored and addressed appropriately to remove any potential conflict of interest should any arise.”

“A compensation study was performed by an independent human resources firm that then made recommendations for an organization-wide salary grade and range structure.”

“A compensation study was performed by an independent human resources firm that then made recommendations for an organization-wide salary grade and range structure.”

“Documents available upon request”

“Our children's trust protects earth's atmosphere and natural systems for present and future generations by elevating the voice of youth in legal actions, public engagement and in the media to secure the legal right to a safe climate system.”

“Our children's trust is working toward its primary objective: protecting earth's natural systems for current and future generations. We are working to help ensure the continuing sustainability of our air and water, and other natural systems. During 2020, we coordinated youth participation in democratic processes and legal actions, and supported numerous public engagement efforts toward our mission. During 2020, the organization received 2,249,021 in donated in-kind legal and expert services that were provided in legal actions filed in pursuit of the organization's mission. Our children's trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public interest law firm providing strategic, science-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. We work to protect the earth's climate system for present and future generations by representing and supporting young people in global legal efforts to secure enforceable rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science. This legal work - guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature - aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning and remedies at federal, state, and global levels. We seek declarations of constitutional rights of youth as well as legally- binding, country and statewide science-based climate recovery plans that will return atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to below 350 parts per million (ppm) by the year 2100. Thus, all of the litigation and advocacy work in which oct participates presents a position on behalf of the public at large on matters of public interest. We do not attempt to achieve, nor does any of our work achieve any of our objectives by illegal activity or through a program of disruption of the judicial system. In fact, we honor the legal processes of the judicial system and consider ourselves officers of the courts as we pursue our objectives in accordance with law and court procedures. We scrupulously adhere to the canons of legal ethics and monitor all of our efforts to ensure our ethical representation in and pursuit of our legal efforts. ________________________________________ 1. Below is a list of all active litigation and legal actions in which our children's trust supported or represented youth clients in 2020: juliana v. U.s., district of oregon, case no. No 6:15-cv-01517-aa we represent 21 young americans from across the u.s in this case that seeks a court declaration that the youth's constitutional rights to life, liberty and property, and the u.s. Government's public trust obligations to preserve natural resources have been violated by the affirmative actions of the u.s. Government that knowingly contribute to and exacerbate the climate crisis. This case, which seeks a successful resolution of the climate crisis through the protection of the constitutional rights of young people, is in the public interest. No fees or expenses have yet been sought, recovered or paid to our children's trust in this litigation. Sagoonick v. State of alaska, supreme court of the state of alaska, supreme ct. No. S-17297 we represent 16 young alaska natives and young alaskans in this lawsuit seeking a court declaration that the youth's constitutional rights under the alaska constitution, and the state of alaska's obligation to preserve natural resources under the public trust doctrine, have been violated by the affirmative actions of the alaska government that knowingly contribute to and exacerbate the climate crisis; and, development by the state of alaska of a science-based climate recovery plan to reduce and mitigate the climate crisis, as a remedy for the state of alaska's violations of those rights and obligations. This case, which seeks a successful resolution of the climate crisis through the protection of the constitutional rights of young people, is in the public interest. No fees or expenses have yet been sought, recovered or pai”