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Climate & environmentPreliminary editorial review

350.org

The US nonprofit 350.org combines climate campaigns with organizing support for local groups. The assessment concerns its network-capacity and institutional-change model, not a causal attribution of divestment totals or all autonomous groups’ activities.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 79–89/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Organizing support, shared campaign knowledge and network coordination can help local climate groups avoid rebuilding movement capacity in isolation.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Networked organizing addresses coordination barriers and seeks to change concentrated institutional influence over energy and finance. This partial interpretation is not endorsement of every campaign, demonstrated effectiveness or checklist adoption.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Support networked climate organizing and institutional change

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Campaigns seek changes in fossil-fuel financing, energy decisions and institutional rules rather than only individual emissions-related services.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

A distributed organizing model can engage institutions and local groups across borders, though independently attributable reach is not measured.

Durability

2 / 4

Institutional policy or financing changes can persist, but organizing capacity, enforcement and political conditions require continuing work.

Scalability

3 / 4

Shared organizing support and network learning can spread across groups; local legitimacy, political context and implementation resources remain limiting.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current costed marginal organizing bottleneck, alternative funder contribution or counterfactual attribution of another donation was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Local organizing and network participation do not establish binding affected-community control over the US nonprofit’s strategy, resources or partner decisions.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

For a specified campaign and institutional decision, did 350.org’s documented support materially change the decision or implementation compared with plausible alternatives, and were resulting emissions and community trade-offs independently tracked?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The US 350.org nonprofit’s organizing and shared movement-support model. Separate national entities, the Dutch 350 Global entity and autonomous partner groups are not counted or scored as subsidiaries here.

What remains uncertain

The current organization page identifies the US 501(c)(3); this is not independent tax-eligibility certification or an audit of every affiliated entity. Public campaign totals and organizational reach claims are not treated as causal impact estimates. The profile covers shared organizing capacity and institutional-change intent, not all autonomous groups or every policy position. No named software repository or license was checked; public campaign resources are not automatically open-source software. Political, distributional, rights and implementation trade-offs require case-specific review, and network size does not establish durable emissions reductions.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage